On April 11, 2019, the Ministry of Finance issued Circular No.21/2019/TT-BTC guiding the initial public offering of shares and transfer of state capital by book building method.

On 24 April 2019, the State Securities Commission (SSC) held a kick-off workshop for “Project for Capacity Building on Improving Fairness and Transparency of Vietnamese Equity Market”. Attending the workshop, there were Vice Chairman of the SSC Pham Hong Son, representatives of the departments of the SSC and the Hanoi Stock Exchange. On the Japanese side, there were Mr. Tsuji Kensuke - Mission Leader - Director, Public Governance and Financial Management Group, Industrial Development and Public Policy Department, JICA Japan and JICA consultant team.

On 13 March 2019, Chairman of SSC had a meeting with Ms. Ingrid van Wees, Vice President for Finance and Risk Management of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). At the meeting, Mr. Tran Van Dzung, Chairman of the SSC expressed the appreciation for the support of ADB to the SSC during the 20 years of establishing and developing the Vietnamese stock market.

On 28 February 2019, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 242/QD-TTg on approving the Project “Restructuring of the securities market and the insurance market up to 2020 and orientation to 2025”.

In the morning of February 12th, 2019, the Ministry of Finance - the State Securities Commission held the ceremony to strike the gong to open the first trading session of the Year of the Pig at Hanoi Stock Exchange.