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BC Card signs contracts for Indonesia's digital payment project
Mar 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KEXIM bank inks $6 billion financing deal with Aramco
The Export-Import Bank of Korea said on Tuesday it has signed a three-year framework agreement with Saudi Arabian Oil Co.(Aramco), to provide up to $...
Mar 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea's K Bank posts highest net profit in 2022
K Bank, a South Korean Internet-only bank, reported a net profit of 83.6 billion won ($63.6 million) in 2022, which nearly quadrupled compared to the...
Mar 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
S.Korea's banks see deposits plummet $35.5 billion in Jan
Banks in South Korea last month saw deposits plummet over 45 trillion won ($35.5 billion) from the previous month due to a decline in deposit interes...
Feb 10, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Financial returns to top in Korea with record NP in 2022
Shinhan Financial Group Co. reported a record-high net profit of 4.6 trillion won ($3.6 billion) last year, snatching back the crown of South Korea&r...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Kakao Bank announces record-high performance in 2022
South Korea's KakaoBank Corp. on Wednesday said its net profit last year reached a record-high 263.1 billion won ($208.6 million), up 28.9% from 2021...
Feb 09, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hyundai Card to provide Apple Pay in South Korea
Apple and Hyundai Card on Wednesday officially announced the launch of the simple payment service Apple Pay in South Korea.The American tech giant sa...
Feb 08, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Industrial Bank of Korea goes all in with Eastern Europe push
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) will open an office in Poland in the first half of this year, with analysts saying the bank's president Kim Seong-tae,...
Feb 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KB Financial Group holds investment conference via metaverse
South Korea's KB Financial Group on Tuesday presented its investment philosophy to individual and institutional customers in the metaverse, a three-d...
Feb 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea's credit card approval volume hit all-time high last year
The annual card approval amount in South Korea exceeded 1,000 trillion won ($811.4 billion) for the first time ever. This is largely because of "reta...
Feb 01, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
BC Card signs strategic partnership deal with Mongolian Central Bank
South Korea's credit card issuer BC Card said on Monday that it has signed a strategic partnership deal with the Bank of Mongolia.With this collabora...
Jan 30, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Bank's Vietnam subsidiary reports record-high performance
Woori Bank Vietnam, South Korean lender Woori Bank's local subsidiary in Vietnam, had heydays last year, tiding over the aftermath of the COVID-19 ou...
Jan 27, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
BC Card eyes Central Asian payment market entry this year
South Korea's financial services company BC Card said on Wednesday that it would seek to enter the Central Asian market this year on the back of its ...
Jan 18, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Kookmin Bank launches foreign currency trading platform KB Star FX
South Korea's largest lender Kookmin Bank on Monday launched its new contactless platform for foreign exchange transactions dubbed KB Star FX.The one...
Jan 17, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Kookmin Card acquires Cambodian leasing firm at $5.2 mn
KB Kookmin Card, a credit card unit of KB Financial Group, and its Cambodian local subsidiary KB Daehan Specialized Bank, acquired the Southeast Asia...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Woori Bank Launches 3D-based metaverse pilot service
Woori Bank launched a 3D-based metaverse pilot service, the bank said on Friday.The bank will provide two services, one for interaction with small bu...
Jan 13, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KEXIM bank issues $3.5 billion in foreign currency bonds
The Export-Import Bank of Korea on Thursday said it issued a record-high $3.5 billion in global bonds to investors worldwide.The government-run bank ...
Jan 06, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Shinhan Bank to completely scrap mobile, online balance transfer fees
Beginning on New Year's day, Shinhan Bank started waiving all balance transfer fees to other bank accounts and automated transfer fees for its mobile...
Jan 02, 2023 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
85% of S.Korea's Gen MZ have contactless savings accounts
A study finds 90% of South Korea's Generation MZ, a demographic comprising millennials and Generation Z members born between 1981 and 2010, use conta...
Dec 26, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
KEXIM to provide $1.2 bn project financing for Indonesian refinery project
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) announced on Friday that it has signed a $1.2 billion project financing agreement with the Indonesian stat...
Dec 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Hana Bank signs agreement for 24-hour forex trading
Hana Bank said on Friday that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Toss Securities for 24-hour foreign exchange trading at th...
Dec 16, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Shinhan Financial taps banking unit head as group CEO
Shinhan Financial Group appointed the head of its flagship banking unit as the group’s next chief executive officer as the major South Korean f...
Dec 08, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
BNK Capital launches operations at Kyrgyzstan subsidiary
Korea's loan and financing company BNK Capital on Thursday said its subsidiary in Kyrgyzstan, MCC BNK Finance LLC, has launched operations as its six...
Dec 02, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Daol Investment seeks to sell Thai subsidiary, eyes $75 mn in proceeds
South Korea’s Daol Investment & Securities Co. plans to sell a controlling stake in its Thai subsidiary, Daol Thailand PCL, as part of its ...
Nov 18, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Weak won leads HSBC's Seoul branch to raise capital
The Seoul branch of the UK-based Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) has made a capital increase of over 20% to raise its capital adequacy ra...
Nov 07, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korean American women leaders in finance stress finding joy in work
NEW YORK – One by one, impeccably dressed Korean American women flocked into the Anchorage Capital Group’s headquarters in New York City ...
Nov 03, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Banks' term deposits attract largest sum in 20 yrs
A fresh 36.4 trillion won ($25 billion) was placed into bank accounts in South Korea in September, whereas 12.4 trillion won ($8.6 billion) was withd...
Oct 13, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
Korea Investment & Securities and Stifel Financial form joint venture
Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, announced on Wednesday that it has formed a joint venture with Miss...
Sep 28, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Banking & Finance
South Korea’s Shinhan launches credit card in Vietnam
South Korea’s Shinhan Card Co. launched its first credit card in Vietnam to expand its business portfolios into overseas markets as the sector&...
Aug 31, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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Shinhan Card ties up with FiscalNote for global data biz
Shinhan Card Co. has joined forces with US legal data and analytics company FiscalNote Holdings Inc. to expand its data business into the global mark...
Aug 25, 2022 (Gmt+09:00)
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