Saigon — Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SHB) was established under Decision No. 214/QD-NH5 dated 13/11/1993; Decision No. 93/QD-NHNN dated 20/1/2006 and Decision No. 1764/QD-NHNN dated 11/9/2006. Over 25 years of development, SHB is proud of being one of commercial banks with leading pace of growth in Vietnam, achieving lots of outstanding successes thanks to its comprehensive development strategy along with social corporate responsibility performance.

On basis of "Solid partners — Flexible solutions" motto and innovation-led business strategy for benefits of customers and prosperity of shareholders — investors, SHB always gains the satisfaction of customers and partners with specialized, convenient, quality and competitive banking products, services as well as professional style. SHB is now among Top 5 largest private commercial banks in Vietnam and is paying great efforts to become a Vietnam's leading modern multi-functional retail Bank.

As of 31/12/2017, SHB became a large-scale financial institution in Vietnam with total assets of VND 277,993 billion, charter capital of VND 11,197 billion. Recently, the Bank has been approved by SBV to increase its charter capital to VND 12,036 billion. With a widespread network of nearly 500 branches and transaction offices all over the country and in Laos and Cambodia and about 7,000 staff, SHB is currently providing services to about 4 million personal and institutional clients.

Thanks to non-stop efforts during the 25-year history, SHB has been awared many notable national and international certificates of merit and awards in acknowledgement of collective and individual achievements such as: Top 10 most prestigious commercial banks in Vietnam; Top 50 most prosperous enterprises in Vietnam, in which SHB holds the highest brand value/asset value ratio among 10 rated banks, Best Bank in Vietnam, Vietnam Bank of the Year, Best SME Bank; Best Trade Finance Bank, Outstanding Bank in Cambodia, etc..