Scott Nathan, CEO of the US’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) (Photo: DFC)

His second trip to Vietnam in two months demonstrates Vietnam’s importance to DFC and to the US. Over the past year, Vietnam has become the DFC’s largest market in Southeast Asia, with more than 730 million USD in investment capital. 

During Mr. Nathan’s previous trip to Vietnam in September, he announced two new commitments that nearly tripled DFC’s investment in Vietnam – more than 400 million USD in new financing to expand access to financing for two major Vietnamese banks, VPBank and TPBank.