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South Korea’s financial watchdog Financial Supervisory Service on Wednesday urged 10 financial institutions to fully compensate for investors’ losses, holding them accountable for their inadvertent decision to draw investments in the disgraced Lime Asset Management’s trade finance fund. In an u...
Riding the wave of contactless service, Kakao Pay Securities, a brokerage backed by mobile messenger operator Kakao, said on July 1 that it would take the stock trading scene to the next level by adding a dab of fun to investment activities and launching easy-to-use services. “Because of high ba...
South Korea‘s pension fund the National Pension Service said Tuesday it has selected five private equity firms as external partners to invest a combined 800 billion won ($665.28 million) in private equities. According to the world’s third-largest public pension fund, NPS will commit 160 billion...
South Korea’s largest institutional investor, the National Pension Service said Monday it has inked a partnership with Germany-based Allianz to co-invest in core real estate assets worth $2.3 billion across the Asia-Pacific region as part of its alternative investment strategy. The 50:50 fund wi...
South Korea’s financial regulator Monday urged financial institutions and tech companies to widen access to client information to foster personal credit information management services here, dubbed MyData. “To maximize customers interest, financial and ICT companies as well as fintech startups ...
Hyundai Capital, the auto financing unit of South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Group, has provided family support programs for working parents to better balance home and work. Launched in 2015, the firm’s in-house daycare center has provided high-quality education to the children of employees d...
Mirae Asset Global Investments, the asset management unit of Mirae Asset Financial Group, said on June 19 that it has been marking its growth in the global financial market by selling over 1,700 financial products in 36 countries around the globe. Since establishing the first South Korean asset m...
Kakao Bank said on June 17 its customers can now open KB Securities stock trading accounts via its platform. The local brokerage under KB Financial Group is the latest securities company to forge a partnership with the internet-only bank. As of May, Kakao Bank had ushered in some 2 million acco...
Seizure treatment developer SK Biopharmaceuticals said on June 15 that it is planning what could be South Korea’s biggest initial public offering in three years, with hopes to raise nearly 1 trillion won ($822 million) in fresh funds. Through its market debut on the nation’s main bourse Kospi, ...
South Korea’s biggest real estate asset management firm IGIS Asset Management said on June 15 that it has launched a new office in Singapore as part of its global expansion. The new branch, IGIS Asia, is the company’s third overseas base. It opened IGIS USA in New York and a London office last ...
South Korea’s asset management companies’ combined net profit has shrunk by over half on-year in the first quarter, data showed on June 11. The net income of 300 AMCs here came to 116.4 billion won ($97.32 million) during the January-March period, down 52.3 percent from the previous year, accor...
K bank is working to resume its operations in July after a monthslong hiatus due to liquidity problems, according to industry insiders on June 9. South Korea’s first internet-only bank recently announced that it would stop receiving new subscribers for its existing Dual-K Checking Account, its s...
South Korea’s investment firm Mirae Asset Global Investments said on June 3 it is eyeing its first initial public offering for its real estate investment trust followed by a listing on the nation’s main bourse Kospi. The REIT is designed to invest in a commercial space of the commercial-residen...
South Korean social casino game developer and publisher DoubleDown Interactive is seeking to get listed on the tech-heavy Nasdaq bourse in the United States, according to its prospectus on June 3. For its initial public offering, the Seoul-based company plans to issue 400,000 new common shares. Al...
Tension mounted on June 2 as executives of Hana Financial Group joined the legal battle against financial authorities for imposing penalties over the misselling of risky derivatives-linked financial products by its banking unit. Jang Kyung-hoon, president of Hana Card as well as Park Se-gul, gene...
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