SEABANK AND BRG GROUP SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

17/03/2020

HANOI - March 17th, In the face of the complicated situation of the Covid-19 pandemic and in order to support the Government and people nationwide, Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank) and the BRG Group spent VND 5 billion on the prevention of Covid-19 pandemic at the Launching Ceremony of Covid-19 Prevention organized by the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, in the witness of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and leaders of the departments.

Besides, SeABank has also implemented a VND 1,000 billion credit package to support businesses affected by the Covid-19 epidemic with preferential interest rates from only 7.8% per year.

Madame Nguyễn Thị Nga, Vice Chairman of SeABank Board of Directors, Chairman of BRG Group, donated VND 5 billion dong.

Accordingly, in response to the Prime Minister's call on everyone to join hands in fight against Covid-19, on March 17, 2020 SeABank and BRG Group made a donation of VND 5 billion at Launching Ceremony of Covid-19 Prevention organized by the Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front. This amount will be allocated appropriately by functional agencies in order to synchronously deploy measures to control and prevent pandemic.

Depending on actual situation, with the VND 1,000 billion credit package, SeABank will conduct checking and reviewing the list of customers infected by Covid-19 as well as new customers meeting some requirements of using products and services, generating credit relations at SeABank... to make disbursements in accordance with the orientation of the State Bank of Vietnam. Enterprises that meet the requirements will be supported with this loans with the minimum interest rate of 7.8%/ year, 8.3%/ year, 8.8%/ year, for the maximum terms of 3 months, 5 months and 6 months. In addition, SeABank also has policies to support individual customers who are infected and encourage remote transactions.

In the face of the complicated situation of the Covid-19 pandemic, SeABank has also drastically implemented anti-epidemic measures as recommended by the Health Ministry at all transaction points nationwide to protect the health of employees and customers.

Specifically, the Bank established the Covid-19 Prevention Committee, and directed all the departments at the Head Office, branches and transaction offices to enhance knowledge of prevention for staff and customers coming to the bank's transactions such as: Measuring the temperature, equipping hand-washing water for employees/ customers to use before trading, wearing masks and gloves and giving masks for customers... SeABank also developed scenarios to cope with the evolution of the disease situation to ensure the continuous operation of the Bank and meet the transaction needs of customers. Besides, SeABank also conducts to spray disinfection of entire offices and all transaction points every weekend.

In particular, SeABank encourages customers to use non-cash payment methods such as online payment, money transfer, loan repayment, transaction queries; online savings deposit, bill payment... via SeAMobile application or online banking SeANet (www.seanet.vn) ... Online transactions not only help customers save time at transaction points but also enjoy free transfer within and outside the system for both individual and corporate customers (when registering for an Combo Account Package).