Banks

South Korea’s largest bank Kookmin Bank said on Tuesday it has issued $600 million worth of global senior secured bonds. The debts were oversu...

Late last year, when the Korean won traded at 1,288 per dollar, most market analysts and economists predicted that the Korean currency would regai...

South Korea’s second-largest insurer Hanwha Life Insurance Co., with 109 trillion won ($79.4 billion) in total assets as of end-September 2023...

South Korea’s state-run Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) has agreed on a 300 billion won ($218 million) committed credit line with Japanese lead...

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Tuesday that it launched the premium real estate wealth management service Hana Real Estate All-care Solution i...

The combined net profit at South Korea’s four largest financial services firms, including KB Financial Group, are estimated to have dropped ne...

South Korea's HD Hyundai Oil Bank Co. and Hyundai Department Store Co. have partnered to create a closed-loop plastic film recycling system, a first...

Major foreign banks have actively increased staff at their operations in South Korea to offset growing uncertainty in their business in China, grapp...

South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank saw that its subscribers surpassed 10 million. According to the company, it's been two years and...

South Korea’s top financial regulator advised about 10 local savings banks in trouble to increase their capital by the end of this month to pr...

South Korea’s Shinhan Bank is set to invest $180 million in HDFC Credila Financial Services Ltd., India’s largest education loan provide...

South Korea’s headline inflation stayed above 3% for two straight months in March on a surge in fruit and vegetable prices coupled with higher...

The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) has suspended the protracted sale process of KDB Life Insurance Co. to take full control of the insurer b...

Samsung Financial Networks, a union of Samsung Group’s four financial affiliates, is seeking to launch a super mobile banking app in partnersh...

South Korea’s initial public offering market is heating up as HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co., which aims to raise 742.6 billion won ($553.4 mi...

Shinhan Financial Group Co., South Korea's second-largest financial group, plans to build a new high-rise office tower in Seoul’s central busi...

South Korea’s savings banks turned to the red after nine years in 2023 as they put aside heavy reserves on future loan losses, with their loan...

South Korea’s Daishin Securities Co. is set to sell its headquarters office to NH-Amundi Asset Management Co. for 660 billion won ($492.6 mill...

South Korea may inject some 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) into Korea Development Bank (KDB) by the end of this month to support the state-run bank's...

Shinhan Bank announced on Friday that its Indonesian subsidiary Shinhan Bank Indonesia signed a strategic business agreement with PT Artha Dana Tekn...

South Korean major banks aim to accelerate their expansions in other countries as their overseas investments paid off with record profits last year ...

Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. has signed an agreement to take on a $250 million loan from three Kuwaiti banks, Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (A...

South Korea has remained muted to a new gold rush fueled by various central banks across the world gobbling up the precious metal, raising concerns ...

Michael ByungJu Kim, co-founder and partner of Northeast Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners Ltd., has been chosen as the most influential...

The commercial real estate (CRE) debt market in Australia has grown rapidly over the last decade. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

NEW YORK -- Global banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been expanding brick-and-mortar branches across the US with investments of billions of...

Bank KB Bukopin, an Indonesian subsidiary of KB Kookmin Bank, announced on Monday that it rebranded as KB Bank. The corporate name PT Bank KB Buko...

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Monday that it launched the Hana Certificate service in 16 languages. The service is available through the...

South Korea's Hana Bank announced on Tuesday that it has signed a business agreement with robo-advisor company Fount Investment Co. to launch a reti...

South Korea’s top four financial services groups – KB, Shinhan, Hana and Woori -- booked 1.97 trillion won ($1.5 billion) of loans as lo...