Since the end of 2011, the Government and the State Bank of Vietnam have initiated and strongly implemented a program to restructure the banking system in order to build a "secure-efficient-sustainable-internationally integrated" banking system. which serves as a "blood line" of the whole economy. To implement the restructuring successfully, Vietnam needs to carry out a set of comprehensive, appropriately scheduled measures of which restructuring of commercial banks' owners' equity is an important issue. This article aims at presenting the relationship between the owners' equity (OE) and the security of banks' operation
analyzing the real situation of the size and structure of Vietnamese commercial banks' OE
and proposing solutions and schedules to increase the size and quality of the elements of the OE in association with improving the management capacity and competence at the Vietnamese commercial banks.