Vietnam's financial sector is growing at pace — with commercial banks, securities firms, insurance companies, and fintech startups all competing in an increasingly digital landscape. We help financial institutions modernise their infrastructure, meet State Bank of Vietnam compliance requirements, and deliver the speed and security that customers and regulators demand.
Vietnam's banking and financial sector has undergone dramatic change in the past decade. The State Bank of Vietnam's digital transformation strategy, combined with explosive smartphone adoption and a young, digitally-native population, has driven rapid growth in digital banking, mobile payments, and fintech services.
Yet behind the consumer-facing innovation, many institutions still run on legacy core banking platforms that weren't designed for today's transaction volumes, open banking APIs, or real-time risk requirements. Regulatory expectations are rising — SBV Circular 09 and subsequent directives have set increasingly stringent requirements for IT infrastructure, data security, and disaster recovery.
FirstCloud Vietnam brings together cloud engineering, financial compliance expertise, and a deep understanding of Vietnam's regulatory environment to help financial institutions modernise confidently — without exposing themselves to operational, compliance, or reputational risk in the process.
Migrate legacy core banking systems — including T24, Finacle, and local platforms — to cloud-native or hybrid architectures with a phased approach that eliminates customer-facing disruption. We handle data validation, parallel-run periods, and regulatory notification requirements throughout the process.
SBV-aligned security controls, comprehensive audit trails, end-to-end encryption, and automated regulatory reporting. Our compliance engineers maintain current knowledge of SBV circulars, PCI-DSS requirements, and ISO 27001 controls to keep your security posture continuously aligned with regulatory expectations.
Real-time risk dashboards, machine learning fraud detection models, and automated regulatory capital reporting. We build data pipelines that aggregate transaction data, customer behaviour signals, and market feeds to give your risk teams the intelligence they need — at the speed modern banking demands.
PCI-DSS compliant payment processing, open banking API layers, and interbank connectivity including NAPAS and SWIFT integration. We design high-availability payment platforms built to handle peak settlement volumes and comply with SBV electronic payment regulations and real-time gross settlement requirements.
We map your existing systems against current SBV IT regulations and identify compliance gaps, technical debt, and migration risk areas before any work begins.
Weeks 1–2Our financial architects design a target state cloud architecture that meets your performance requirements, disaster recovery SLAs, and regulatory data residency obligations.
Weeks 3–5Architecture and security controls are reviewed against SBV requirements, PCI-DSS standards, and your internal risk policies before migration commences.
Week 6Systems migrate in controlled phases with parallel-run periods, automated data validation, and predefined rollback procedures to protect against service disruption.
Months 2–6Post-migration, we provide continuous compliance monitoring, automated audit reporting, and proactive advisory as SBV regulations evolve.
OngoingOur financial compliance team maintains active, up-to-date knowledge of SBV circulars and directives — including Circular 09 on IT management for credit institutions. Every architecture we design is mapped against current regulatory requirements, and we produce documentation that can be submitted directly to SBV auditors. We also monitor for regulatory changes and proactively advise clients when their setup needs adjustment.
Yes. Our core banking migration methodology uses a phased parallel-run approach: we bring up the target environment alongside your existing system, run both in parallel with automated data synchronisation, validate output consistency, then cut over during a low-traffic maintenance window — typically a weekend night. Customers experience no service interruption. We have completed multiple migrations of this type for Vietnamese commercial banks with zero customer-facing incidents.
Our financial services team includes AWS Certified Solutions Architects, Microsoft Azure architects, CISSP-certified security engineers, and professionals with specific experience in PCI-DSS qualified security assessments. We also work with accredited third-party auditors for ISO 27001 and SBV compliance reviews, ensuring an independent sign-off on all high-risk implementations.
We implement data classification from day one, ensuring that personally identifiable financial data is encrypted at rest using AES-256 and in transit using TLS 1.3. Access is controlled through role-based policies with full audit logging. We enforce data residency requirements — keeping Vietnamese customer data within Vietnam-region cloud infrastructure — and our security team conducts regular access reviews and penetration tests on all financial environments we manage.
Yes. We have implemented NAPAS interbank connectivity for multiple clients, including the message format, settlement reconciliation, and dispute management flows. For VNPay, we have built API integration layers that connect core banking systems to VNPay's payment gateway, QR code infrastructure, and merchant settlement systems. We are familiar with NAPAS's technical documentation and testing requirements and can accelerate your certification timeline significantly.
Speak directly with an engineer who understands SBV compliance, core banking architecture, and the specific pressures of Vietnam's financial sector.
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