The Ministry of Finance, on July 13, informed that after six months of implementing the new legal framework on corporate bonds, the volume of corporate bonds issued through private placement was above VND168.7 trillion, up 3.2 percent over the same period last year. The volume of corporate bonds issued through public offering was more than VND15.37 trillion, equivalent to 50.3 percent of bond issuance volume in 2020, accounting for 8.3 percent of total corporate bond issuance volume.