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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...

KB Kookmin Bank announced on Monday that it held an opening event for the integrated commercial bank KB Prasac Bank PLC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on ...

South Korea’s central bank held its policy rate flat at 3.5% for a ninth straight session on Thursday as it was deemed too early for a rate cu...

South Korean banks are accelerating moves to close branches given the growth in digital transactions and decline in offline customers but financial ...

KB Financial Group and Kakao Bank, top players in South Korea’s offline and mobile banking sector, respectively, achieved their highest-ever p...

South Korea's leading poultry processor Harim Co. has walked away from a $5 billion deal to buy HMM Co., South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier, re...

South Korea’s Hana Financial Group on Wednesday reported a dip in net profit in 2023, with record earnings at its flagship Hana Bank offset by...

South Korean banks are scurrying to suspend the sale of equity-linked securities (ELS) after the country’s financial regulator said it may con...

World Bank President Ajay Banga said on Thursday that South Korea needs to boost population growth by easing the fierce competition in education and...

Talks to sell South Korea’s No. 1 ocean carrier HMM Co. to Harim Group, a leading poultry processor, have made little progress amid disputes o...

South Korean banks are in a race to advance into Poland to support Korean companies rushing to build factories in the new offshore manufacturing hub...

South Korea’s Viva Republica Inc. has recently invited a handful of domestic brokerage companies to give presentations to revive its IPO plan....

South Korea’s central bank does not plan to buy more gold for its foreign exchange reserves, although the monetary authority has not purchased...

South Korea's Woori Bank announced on Thursday that it has issued $700 million (940 billion won) worth of foreign currency ESG (environmental, socia...

Woori Financial Group, South Korea’s fourth-largest financial holding company, will reinforce its wealth management service for high-net-worth...

South Korea’s fintech platform Toss Bank said on Thursday it has launched commission-free foreign exchange services for the first time as a do...

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday hinted its policy rate may have peaked after leaving the rate unchanged for the eighth straight meeting...

Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Rhee Chang-yong has transformed the central bank into a dynamic monetary authority by cooperating with not only oversea...

Yen deposits at South Korean banks grew by the largest-ever monthly amount in November to a record $9.92 billion, central bank data show, as investo...

South Korean steelmaker SeAH Steel Holdings Corp. said on Thursday its UK subsidiary SeAH Wind Ltd. has won a £900 million ($1.1 billion) orde...

Four major banks in South Korea are enjoying healthy earnings from overseas businesses, particularly in Asian emerging markets.KEB Hana Bank posted ...