It signed a joint venture with the State Capital Investment Corporation, a strategic investment arm of the Vietnam government, to establish a securities firm that will conduct securities trading and investment banking.
SCIC, Morgan Stanley and staff will jointly own the joint venture, which will be called SCIC Morgan Stanley, although exact shareholdings have not been disclosed. That might yet prove to be relevant. Morgan Stanley was quick to establish a joint venture securities firm in China years ahead of the competition, only for its influence to diminish rapidly because it had a minority shareholding.
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