HANOI, VIET NAM – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – HDBank Chairman Kim Byoungho was named one of Viet Nam's top 10 outstanding business leaders for 2021-25, receiving the "Outstanding Vietnamese Entrepreneur – Thanh Giong (Saint Giong) Cup 2026" from the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) on October 11 in Hanoi.
HDBank Chairman Kim Byoungho was named among Viet Nam's top 10 outstanding business leaders for 2021-25 and honoured with the "Outstanding Vietnamese Entrepreneur – Thanh Giong (Saint Giong) Cup 2026" by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry on October 11 in Hanoi. — Photo courtesy of HDBank
The award features Thanh Giong, symbolising patriotism and community unity.
The triennial programme evaluates 2021-25 business performance across governance, innovation, corporate social responsibility, and ethical standards.
As HDBank's first foreign chairman, Mr. Kim brings nearly four decades of international financial experience.
Since Mr. Kim became chairman in April 2022, HDBank has grown strongly on every key measure.
Between end-2021 and end-2025, total assets rose 2.5 times to VND931 trillion (US$36 billion), placing the bank among the top eight in the system.
Profit before tax increased 2.65 times to VND21.3 trillion ($822.4 million), taking HDBank into the group of banks earning over VND20 trillion ($772.2 million).
Equity grew 2.54 times to VND78.3 trillion ($3 billion), and market capitalisation rose 2.4 times to VND148.7 trillion ($5.7 billion).
Return on equity improved from 23.3 per cent to 25.3 per cent, keeping HDBank at the top of the sector for several consecutive years.
Moody's affirmed the bank at B1 with a positive outlook, while Fitch assigned BB-.
As a Korean banker, Mr. Kim has strengthened co-operation between Vietnamese and Korean financial institutions and expanded HDBank's access to international capital, including issuance of $100 million of green bonds to IFC, FMO and BII before securing a $721 million social loan with ADB and international banks.
Under his leadership, the bank pioneered the adoption of Basel II standards in risk management in 2023 and was recognised as Viet Nam's top five public company for Best Corporate Governance at the 2025 ASEAN Corporate Governance Awards.
In 2025, S&P Global Market Intelligence ranked HDBank first among Vietnamese banks and second for operational efficiency among Southeast Asia's top 50 listed banks.
During 2021-25 period, the bank contributed VND16.5 trillion ($637.8 million) to the State budget and disbursed over VND42 trillion ($1.6 billion) in green credit.
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SHENZHEN, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – Global smart device brand OPPO today announced a collaboration with Manus, a leading AI agent platform, to bring next-generation agentic AI experiences to smartphones. By integrating Manus' agentic capabilities to OPPO AI Mind Pilot, the collaboration will help users turn complex, multi-step tasks into ready-to-use results—advancing OPPO's vision for Personalized Proactive Intelligence, where AI understands users and proactively helps them get things done.
OPPO Partners with Manus to Bring Agentic AI Experiences to Smartphones
"Smartphones are central to people's daily lives and support many of the tasks they handle every day, making them a natural platform for personal AI agents," said Tao Zhang, Co-Founder & CPO of Manus. "By bringing together Manus' agentic capabilities and OPPO's system-level integration, we can make advanced AI agents more accessible and help users complete multi-step tasks through simple, natural interactions."
Manus Capabilities Debut in AI Mind Pilot's New Agent Mode
The collaboration will debut through the integration of Manus' agentic capabilities into AI Mind Pilot's new Agent Mode on the upcoming OPPO Find X10 Series with ColorOS 17.
Designed to move beyond simple question-and-answer interactions, AI Mind Pilot can understand a user's end goal, break it down into multiple steps, identify relevant information, select the appropriate tools, and deliver a finished result, including by working directly with files and photos stored on the device.
For example, a user planning a trip could simply ask AI Mind Pilot to organize their travel plans. It can find flight tickets, hotel bookings, restaurant reservations, and attraction tickets scattered across different apps on the smartphone, organize them, and combine them with relevant online information to create a personalized, day-by-day itinerary—without requiring users to manually gather and upload the information.
The same capabilities can support everyday creative and professional tasks. Users can ask AI Mind Pilot to find and organize photos from a trip, locate specific images, or bring together existing files and online information to create a presentation, proposal, portfolio, or other ready-to-use content, all with just one single prompt.
Powerful Agentic AI Built Around User Control and Privacy
As AI moves from providing information to working with personal context and completing tasks, privacy, security, and user control become increasingly important. AI Mind Pilot is designed with these priorities at its core.
ColorOS 17 uses on-device models to understand and organize relevant information locally. For local tasks such as finding, organizing, or renaming files and photos, the original content remains on the device and is not shared with Manus. When a task requires external processing, AI Mind Pilot will ask for the user's explicit confirmation before relevant content is uploaded or shared.
Users remain in control of what information is accessed, which actions are taken and whether external processing is allowed. Through on-device processing and transparent authorization, OPPO and Manus aim to make agentic AI more capable while maintaining a clear fucus on users' choice and control.
Launching on OPPO Find X10 Series
The Manus-powered capabilities in AI Mind Pilot will debut on the OPPO Find X10 Series with ColorOS 17. Further details on availability, supported markets, and user benefits will be announced at launch.
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