Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on August 11 announced the 2026 Banking Sector Digital Transformation with the theme ‘Smart banking in the data and AI era’. 57/NQ-TW and the Government’s national digital transformation directives which consider the development of AI and the data economy a major priority and a key component. "Through the event, the banking sector wishes to affirm a key message: digital transformation is not merely a matter of technology, but fundamentally, it is about serving people. Nguyen Xuan Hai, Acting Editor-in-Chief of Banking Times, said that as the lifeblood of the economy, the banking sector had consistently pioneered the national digital transformation process. SBV had progressively streamlined the legal framework to remove bottlenecks and promote the adoption of information technology, digital transformation and cashless payments./.