The Industrial Revolution 4.0 will inevitably involve digital transformation, which presents an opportunity for enterprises, in general, and the Vietnamese banking sector, in particular, to advance and reinvent themselves, or at least rethink how they go about doing business. Therefore, if digital transformation is not the key concern of the banking system in Vietnam at the moment, its lack of progress will cause it to lag behind compared to other industries. This article discusses certain challenges related to digitization and digital transformation in commercial banking operations, as well as the state of the Vietnamese commercial banking system in terms of digital transformation. Based on this analysis, the authors propose a number of recommendations to promote the aforementioned digital transformation process. The main research methods used in the article are traditional research methods: desk research, data synthesis, and analysis, induction of collected foreign and domestic documents.