To upgrade and develop the Vietnamese stock market, simplify procedures and dossier, and facilitate foreign investors when participating in the stock market, on April 29, 2025, the State Bank of Viet Nam promulgated Circular 03/2025/TT-NHNN regulating the opening and use of Vietnamese Dong accounts for foreign indirect investment activities in Viet Nam, replacing Circular 05/2014/TT-NHNN (Circular 05). Circular 03 takes effect from June 16, 2025.

On May 5, 2025, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular 19/2025/TT-BTC stipulating the registration of public companies, cancellation of public company status, and audited report on contributed charter capital. Circular 19 provides detailed guidelines for certain provisions of the Law on Securities 2019, as amended and supplemented by Law 56/2024/QH15, and replaces certain articles of Circular 118/2020/TT-BTC providing guidelines for public offerings and issuance of securities, tender offers, share repurchases, registration of public companies and cancellation of public company status.

On May 5, 2025, the Government issued Decree 97/2025/ND-CP stipulating incentives and policies for the Vietnam National Innovation Center (NIC). The Decree was issued when several regulations on incentives and policies for the NIC, organizations, and individuals operating at the Center needed a breakthrough to promote creative startup and innovation activities. Decree 97 takes effect from the date of issuance and replaces Decree 94/2020/ND-CP, which stipulates the same content. This paper will focus on introducing several incentives and policies for enterprises operating at the NIC and some other outstanding new points of Decree 97.

In an effort to fulfill international commitments on climate change, particularly the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, Viet Nam is gradually developing and improving its legal framework for domestic carbon market. To further specify the roadmap for the carbon market's development and based on these foundational legal documents, the Ministry of Finance has drafted the Decree on domestic carbon trade exchange.

The Law on E-Transactions 2023 has created a new legal framework for e-signatures, including public digital signatures which are now widely used by enterprises in conducting procedures relative to tax, customs, and social insurance and in signing e-contracts. Guiding public digital signatures, Decree 23/2025/ND-CP regulating e-signatures and trust services will take effect from April 10, 2025.

Currently, most administrative procedures are carried out online, including the procedures for business registration and change of business registration contents. Regarding this matter, on February 13, 2025, the Business Registration Office – Ha Noi Department of Planning and Investment issued Notice 207/TB-DKKD to guide the supplement and update of Identity Card/Citizen Identity information of legal representatives, heads of subordinate units, owners of private enterprises, data cleaning for issuance of electronic identification for enterprises within Ha Noi.