Vietnam, July 29 -- On July 29, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held a signing ceremony with Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) in the capital city Hanoi of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for a loan agreement under the Private Sector Investment and Finance scheme.This project supports the expansion of sustainable finance(*) in Vietnam through co-financing with FinDev Canada, Export Finance Australia (EFA), British International Investment (BII), and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC). It applies the "SMBC-JICA Sustainable Finance Framework," established by SMBC and JICA to advance sustainable finance in financial markets. This is also JICA's first direct co-financing project with BII.Terms a...