Article: IPO
The Vietnam IPO Readiness Checklist: A 40-Item Field Guide for 2026-2027 Listings
Vietnam’s listing window is open and the calendar is unforgiving. The FTSE Russell first tranche is dated 21 September 2026. Decree 245/2025 has compressed the regulatory timetable. Cornerstone investors and FTSE-benchmarked funds are already calibrating their Vietnam allocations. The issuers who close inside the window are the ones whose readiness work was done before the bookrunner walked through the door — not after. This is the field guide I wish every Vietnamese issuer had on the desk at kick-off. Forty items, organised across five workstreams. None of them are surprising. All of them are the difference between a clean diligence cycle and a re-cut timetable.
