Vietnam and Austria are deepening practical cooperation on financial-market supervision, with digital assets at the center of the conversation. On September 15 in Vienna, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi met Mariana Kühnel, the newly appointed executive director of Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA).

Officials from Vietnam’s State Securities Commission (SSC), the Ministry of Finance, and related market institutions joined the session, which mixed experience-sharing with a search for concrete channels of future work.

Chi welcomed Austria’s account of how it has updated supervision as technology and new asset classes have arrived.

The discussion then turned to crypto-assets. Vietnam, he said,…