Debt financing

  A lot of stock investors have jumped into the bullish market in recent years. But global inflation and recession appear as threats to invest...

As global investors are seeking ways to protect their investment returns in an inflationary, rising rate environment, some asset managers are eyeing...

Apollo Global Management Inc., a US private equity powerhouse, is set to launch a credit business in South Korea, aiming for the local private lendi...

Apollo Global Management Inc., a US private equity powerhouse, is set to start the credit business in South Korea, aiming for the local private lend...

As economic uncertainties grow amid rate hikes and inflation, South Korean institutional investors are eyeing direct lending for safer investment an...

Woori Card Co. is set to start the installment finance business in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy as the credit card unit of Sout...

South Korea’s former finance minister and central bank governor Cho Soon died at 94 of natural causes on Thursday.Cho, a renowned economist ca...

Key asset owners of South Korea will keep their mid- to long-term plans for alternative asset management despite the current macroeconomic risks, as...

GS Group, a South Korean energy-to-retail conglomerate, has an unlisted affiliate that the group largely keeps out of the public eye but is occasion...

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has significantly improved its financial health, with its debt-to-equity ratio tumblin...

Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is planning to raise a total of 674 billion won ($532 million) in loans for South Korea's Acuon Capital a...

South Korea’s won currency skidded to the lowest level in more than two years on Thursday, adding to fears over growing inflationary pressure ...

South Korea’s Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki reiterated the country will take reform measures such as the extension of the local currency's trad...

Around 70% of South Korean key asset owners will expand their exposure to global private debt, expecting steady streams of cash flow, according to a r...

  Korea Post, South Korea's state-run postal service agency, said on April 14 that its insurance arm will select two asset managers for a maxi...

The sale of troubled sport utility vehicle maker Ssangyong Motor Co. is likely to be a duel between chemicals conglomerate KG Group and SBW Group, a...

South Korea’s KG Group, a chemicals conglomerate, and Cactus Private Equity, are joining the race for Ssangyong Motor Co., up for sale again n...

South Korea’s central bank chief nominee said on Friday he will use interest rates to tackle household debt in Asia’s fourth-largest eco...

Choi Jin-min, founder and chairman of Kiturami Boiler Co., is one of the few living witnesses in South Korea's boiler history. At the age of 21, he ...

  Most new asset management firms in South Korea end up lagging the competition due to their smaller sizes. They suffer from operating losses ...

When Seoul-based private equity firm Hahn & Co. acquired K Car Co. from SK Group in 2018, the No. 1 used car retailer in South Korea controlled ...

Korea Investment & Securities Co. will arrange senior and mezzanine loans for Paris-based PAI Partners to fund its acquisition of Tropicana an...

LG AI Research unveiled an alliance network consisting of 13 corporations and organizations based in South Korea and abroad on Tuesday. There a...

The proposed merger of Korean Air Lines Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc. has moved one step closer to completion with approval by South Korea’s an...

South Korea’s household debt hit a record on surging property prices, stoking concerns over a slowdown in private consumption in Asia’s ...

As the liquidity party is coming to an end, rising interest rates and falling asset values are highlighting concerns about household debt taken on b...

Institutional investors of South Korea aim to increase their alternative assets, focusing on expanding private debt, according to a recent survey of...

TVing Co. is poised to sell 382,513 new shares to South Korean private equity fund JC Partner Co.’s affiliate to raise 250 billion won ($209 m...

South Korea’s major banks posted record earnings last year, boosted by higher interest income amid the central bank’s easing monetary bi...

Hyundai Capital Services Inc., a financial services subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, and CGI Finance, a unit of Societe Generale Group, have launc...