Impact of economic integration on banking performance in Vietnam

Through the collection of secondary data, the study was conducted to understand the impact of economic integration on banking performance in Vietnam. The data of the article is taken from 21 commercial banks in Vietnam from the period 2010 - 2021. The research results show that economic integration has an impact on banking performance through economic freedom indexes and financial freedom. Besides, the results also show that many factors related to the internal characteristics of banks also have an impact on bank performance including bank size, diversification of banking products, cost of banking activities, and equity ratio. Economic environmental factors also have an impact on bank performance. GDP has a positive and statistically significant relationship with banking performance. From the research results, the article proposes governance implications for managers of Vietnamese commercial banks. The obtained results have contributed more empirical evidence on the impact of economic integration on the banking performance of developing countries