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ABSTRACT
Currently, the banking sector in general and personal credit activities in
particular are in the fierce competition between many domestic and
foreign commercial joint stock banks . The banking sector „s revenues in Vietnam
today mainly come from credit activities. However, credit activities are currently
facing many difficulties, including bad debts, reduced credit growth due to the slow
socio-economic development as well as experiencing the previous difficult period. This
results in significant revenue losses. Every bank has their own attractive strategies,
business plans, services, utilities ... to attract customers. How to provide customers
with the best satisfaction while optimizing operating costs and maximizing business
profits is always an issue that banks try to do with all their capabilities.
There is solid evidence that loyalty is perceived by marketing researchers as a
very important concept because of its positive impacts on the company's long-term
benefits of enterprises. Businesses should focus on maintaining relationships with old
customers rather than trying to entice new customers. Hoffmann and partners (2012)
had proved that customers‟ satisfaction and trust were positively correlated with the
intention to continue the relationship with the bank and the cross-buying intent of
the customers - two components measure loyalty of customers .
Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB) and Ong Ich Khiem in particular
should find out and develop their proper strategies to attract and occupy the market in
the most optimal way. At the same time, particular attention should be paid to the
customers‟ satisfaction, especially to the factors that affect the customers‟
satisfaction when using credit services, in order to find solutions to improve their
credit services‟quality to satisfy customers‟ demands better and better.
It can be seen that the measurement of customers‟ satisfaction using personal
credit products and services at Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank is
necessary. Therefore, the author conducts the topic "Research on customers‟