BIDV Highlights
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BIDV IT: 30 years and looking forward For 30 years of establishment and development, IT operations at BIDV have made strong and continuous growth, playing an important and decisive role in BIDV's development strategy. From zero Starting from zero, in July 1991 BIDV established a computerization team of 3 staff and 2 computers. To date, the IT & Digital Banking Group has 5 units (IT Center, Technology Department, Digital Banking Center, Business Analysis and Centralized Data Management Center, and Corebanking Project Management Department) which comprehensively manage all IT activities at BIDV. The staff force of the group is over 700 who are well-trained, highly qualified and dedicated. The IT infrastructure system is equipped with thousands of specialized servers, tens of thousands of personal computers and IT equipment. The main data processing center and disaster response center are modernized under international standards. BIDV’s application system includes about 180 software serving all activities at BIDV. Over the past 30 years, the IT team have grown continuously and taken on deploying large and complex IT solutions/systems under international standards such as payment software, Corebanking.... IT has impacted all aspects of the bank's activities, and changed the perception and habit of staff about IT application in banking activities as well as changing organizational model of the Head Office and Branches. Hundreds of products and services
with high IT content developed and deployed by the IT and Digital Banking group have helped BIDV attract more than 12.7 million customers, contributing to the bank’s business performance over the years.
To frontline force BIDV's business development strategy for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030, has set the vision to become a financial institution with the best digital platform in Vietnam and Technology and Digital banking are one of the three development pillars of BIDV. To achieve the goals and vision of the strategy, the IT & Digital Banking group defines a new role and mission:
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to play an important and decisive role in BIDV's development strategy, be pioneering, make breakthrough in developing products for the market, and be a competitive strength of BIDV. BIDV has clearly identified key solutions that need to be implemented to promote the application of IT and implementation of digital transformation for making breakthroughs and solid development, promoting business activities and competitiveness, particularly: Firstly, develop and implement the IT development strategy to 2030 to ensure that it meets the requirements of BIDV's business development strategy to 2025, with a vision to 2030.
