The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on February 23 revised the daily reference exchange rate up by 10 dong from the previous day to 22,443 dong/US dollar.
With the current trading band of +/- 3 percent, the ceiling rate applied to commercial banks during the day is 23,116 dong/US dollar and the floor rate 21,772 dong/US dollar.
The opening hour rates at major commercials banks continued to increase.
Vietcombank listed the greenback at 22,685 dong/US dollar (buying) and 22,755 dong/US dollar (selling), up five dong in both rates compared to yesterday.
The buying price at Vietinbank was 22,695 dong/US dollar and the selling price was 22,765 dong/US dollar, up 13 dong in both rates compared to the same period of yesterday morning.
Meanwhile, BIDV bought the greenback at 22,685 dong/US dollar and sold it at 22,755 dong/US dollar, up 15 dong in both rates from yesterday.