Hanoi, July 9, 2025 – At the Meliá Hanoi Hotel, the high-level Banking Leadership Roundtable 2025, themed “Strategies for Building Flexible and Sustainable Data Infrastructure for Vietnam’s Financial-Banking Sector”, was successfully held with the participation of over 60 senior leaders from the State Bank of Vietnam, the Vietnam Banking Association, the National Data Association, the National Payment Corporation of Vietnam (NAPAS), and major banks such as Vietcombank, Agribank, BIDV, VietinBank, Techcombank, ICBC,… alongside leading technology firms like Hyperlogy and PingCAP.
This event was not only a professional discussion but also a strategic networking space, shaping the future of Vietnam’s banking data infrastructure in the digital era.
Against the backdrop of robust digital transformation, the forum focused on upgrading data infrastructure to meet demands for continuous operation, high security, and real-time analytics – now essential standards in modern banking.
High-Level Banking Leadership Roundtable: Strategic Vision from Top Experts
In his opening speech at the event, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Hung, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Vietnam Banking Association, emphasized that 2025 marks a pivotal milestone as the Data Law No. 60/2024/QH15 officially takes effect from July 1, 2025, creating an important legal foundation for data development and sharing across the entire banking system.
Data has been identified as the core resource in the digital transformation process. With over 90% of transactions now digitized, there is an urgent need to enhance data quality, security, and integration. The standardization, interoperability, and effective governance of data will serve as the foundation for sustainable development in the banking sector.
Mr.Nguyen Quoc Hung expressed his expectation that the discussions at the forum would help shape the banking industry’s data architecture, aligning with development requirements in the digital era and deeper global integration.
Moreover, the Roundtable was honored to receive insightful strategic guidance from senior representatives of the State Bank of Vietnam. Mr. Le Hoang Chinh Quang – Director of the Information Technology Department and Mr. Le Anh Dung – Deputy Director of the Payment Department presented strategic perspectives on modernizing data infrastructure, accelerating digital transformation, and enhancing cybersecurity across the banking sector.
The speeches emphasized the critical importance of data standardization and cleansing to build a unified, transparent industry-wide data system. Connecting to the national database and implementing biometric authentication were highlighted as key solutions to enhance security, prevent fraud, and ensure banking account authenticity.
Furthermore, banks were urged to proactively comply with new regulatory requirements including the Data Law, Circular 64/2024 on Open APIs, and Decree 94/2025 on Fintech Sandbox… to ensure safety and transparency in digital-era data governance.
At the Roundtable, Mr. Chu Xuan Vinh – Co-founder of Hyperlogy, with over 30 years of experience in developing IT systems for banking-finance, telecommunications, and public services, delivered an in-depth presentation on the strategy for “Cloud-Native Payment System Re-architecture“. Mr. Vinh’s speech highlighted a pioneering approach to building flexible, scalable, cost-optimized data infrastructure while ensuring digital-era security.
With his sharp technological vision, Mr. Vinh emphasized that resource isolation, traffic control, system simplification, and Zero Downtime are critical factors for preventing transaction congestion during peak periods like holidays and Tet. He also highlighted the effectiveness of the hybrid database mechanism in reducing operational costs and the DC-DC database model in enhancing system availability while minimizing service interruptions (Zero Downtime).
Mr. Vinh further shared test results of a payment system using Microservices architecture on Kubernetes platform. Despite relatively limited allocated resources, the test system achieved processing capacity of 600 transactions per second with latency of approximately 50 milliseconds per transaction. These impressive metrics not only demonstrate superior performance but also confirm the strong potential for optimizing operations, ensuring high availability, and minimizing service disruptions in modern digital banking activities.
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Hyperlogy’s Presentation at the High-Level Banking Leadership Roundtable 2025 on ‘Cloud-Native Banking Payment System Re-architecture
The Roundtable also acknowledged numerous practical experiences shared by domestic and international experts. Mr. Nguyen Hung Nguyen, Deputy General Director of NAPAS, presented on upgrading the money transfer system for cross-border payments – a key factor in promoting trade and international economic integration.
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High-Level Roundtable Discussion: Building Banking Data Strategies in the Digital Era
The centerpiece of CIO Leadership Roundtable 2025 was the high-level roundtable discussion, expertly moderated by Ms. Nguyen Thuy Duong – Chairwoman of EY Consulting Vietnam Joint Stock Company. With participation from industry leaders and technology experts, the session conducted in-depth analysis of critical topics, laying the foundation for long-term data development strategies in the financial-banking sector.
Three main discussion topics included:
- Modernizing Banking Data Architecture: Focusing on performance, security, and industry-wide integration/interoperability capabilities.
- Optimizing Big Data Governance: Covering collection, processing, and analysis while ensuring security and regulatory compliance.
- Proactive Data Utilization: Innovating data application methods to enhance competitiveness and personalize customer experiences.
Additionally, within the framework of the discussion session, representatives from VietinBank, BIDV and Techcombank sequentially shared practical perspectives on key questions surrounding challenges and strategic directions in creating modern data architecture, including infrastructure investment, legacy system integration, and data utilization for comprehensive digital transformation.
Mr. Tran Cong Quynh Lan – Deputy General Director, Head of IT Division, and Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence Division at VietinBank – shared several viewpoints on essential factors for building effective data architecture, while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of long-term investment roadmaps.
Mr. Dang Hai Nha – Director of Data Center & Analytics at BIDV – discussed challenges in legacy system integration and key principles for flexible data modernization.
Mr. Tran Dinh Khiem – Director of Digital Banking at Techcombank – presented perspectives on data’s role in enabling omnichannel connectivity and enhancing customer service quality.
Continuing the discussion, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Lan Anh – Chief Technology and Operations Officer of Standard Chartered Vietnam – presented the global data integration strategy, with Vietnam being among the first connected markets. The flexible data framework supports both business expansion and market-specific regulatory compliance.
Representing the digital banking sector, Mr. Jonas Eichhorst – CEO of Timo Digital Bank (by BVBank) – analyzed the advantages and pressures of real-time data utilization in digital banking. He emphasized the critical importance of end-to-end data governance to ensure agile, transparent and secure operations in digital environments
Strategic Connections – Foundation for Long-Term Collaboration in the Data Era
The 2025 High-Level Banking Leadership Roundtable served not only as an in-depth forum on data strategy, but also as a rare platform for high-level networking among key stakeholders in Vietnam’s financial-banking sector.
Through panel discussions, side meetings, and especially the official networking dinner, numerous potential ideas and strategic relationships were established – laying the groundwork for long-term collaborative networks to drive future banking data transformation initiatives.
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Hyperlogy – The Premier Partner for Banking Digital Transformation Solutions
By participating in the 2025 High-Level Banking Leadership Roundtable, Hyperlogy reaffirmed its position as a technology pioneer, committed to supporting Vietnam’s banking sector in building modern, sustainable, and globally adaptive digital infrastructure.
Established in 2003, with over 20 years of experience in the financial-banking industry, Global Applied Technology Development Investment Joint Stock Company (Hyperlogy Corporation) has demonstrated its expertise and vision through major projects for leading Vietnamese financial institutions, including: BIDV (Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam), MB (Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank), ABBANK (An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank), SHB (Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank), Bao Viet Bank (Bao Viet Commercial Joint Stock Bank),…and other prestigious partners.
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The successful conclusion of CIO Leadership Roundtable 2025 marks a significant milestone not only for Vietnam’s financial-banking sector, but also represents a major leap forward for Vietnamese technology companies like Hyperlogy – organizations that are actively building sustainable digital infrastructure foundations for the future.
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Event Recap Video: Banking Leadership Roundtable 2025
