MXBank – 2007 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

On 30th May, 2008 MXBank celebrated ceremonially Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in the year 2007 on the second storey – Dong Xuyen Hotel, Long Xuyen city, An Giang province with the participation of 85 shareholders representing for more than 500 existing shareholders; the leader of Viet Nam State Bank – An Giang Branch, Board of Directors and Board of Supervisory representatives.

The General Meeting approved some important issues as following:

o        The business result in the year 2007

o        Responsibilty and development orientation of the bank in 2008.

o       The salary of execcutive operation, remuneration and expenses of Board of Directors and Board of Supervisory.

o        Registration, depository and trading bank’s stocks in OTC market.

o        Agreement on buying fixed assets and facilities.

The General Meeting had much time for shareholders, Board of Directors with the delegates to discuss and contribute good ideas to the leaders of the MXBank in order to have appropriate measures in current situation. Since the existing difficulties have impacted to most financial institutions such as high inflation, the competition on deposit interest rate between the commercial banks for meeting the demand of liquidity when regulatory reserve up to 11%..etc. The State Bank of Viet Nam has adjusted the monetary policy accompanied with the change of base rate executing mechanism up to 12% per annum from 8.75% and constraining the loan interest rate not exceeding 150% the base rate…etc. These issues have sharply impacted to Bank’s business operation. In addition to the appropriate measures given, most of shareholders attending the general meeting agreed with Board of Directors to bring out the orientation in forthcoming period for MXBank’s more substainable and strong development.

At the General Meeting, shareholders and Board of Directors have received the truthly contributing ideas from Mr. Le Trong Nghia – Director of State Bank – An Giang Branch. According to Mr. Nghia, MXBank was one of the best credit institutions in An Giang province with the result of lending in the third rank and deposit mobilization in the forth rank out of 45 credit institutions which were operating within An Giang province.And also according to Mr. Nghia “It is very difficult to mobilize enough deposit to meet the capital demand for local economic development in current socio-economic condition”. Besides of these, he continued to contribute measures for solving the scoped machanism in order to develop the bank’ branches in nationwide and enhance the bank’s compacity with steadiness and substainable development.

In general, the 2007 Annual General Meeting took place in ebullient atmosphere with many positive contributing ideas. This shall be the important motivation to help Board of Directors and Board of CEO have appropriate measures to solve the current difficulties as well as to find out the strategic orientation for performing in forthcoming time, the role implementation in managing, executing the bank’s business operation better in the year 2008 and the continuous years in order to have good result with the purpose encreasing the value of shareholder’s stocks, the staff’s lives and the budget../.