equity financing

Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) on Friday launched the IBK Venture Loan, which provides bridge loans to promising startups struggling to borrow funds...

The average household debt in South Korea has exceeded 90 million won ($69,284). While the figure appears to be high by Korean standards, average ho...

National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea said Tuesday it saw a cumulative loss of 7.1% on investment, or 68 trillion won ($51.3 billion), betwe...

A total of 103 companies, a mere 0.01% of the total number of corporations in South Korea, are paying more than 40% of the country’s total cor...

In a first for a Korean brokerage, KB Securities has led all major performance categories this year and could achieve the domestic sector's first "q...

NEW YORK – One by one, impeccably dressed Korean American women flocked into the Anchorage Capital Group’s headquarters in New York City...

Pension Foundation of Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK Pension), a South Korean retirement plan for pastors and churches, is poised to hire several...

IGIS Asset Management Co., South Korea’s largest real estate investment firm managing $46.5 billion in assets as of end-2021, said on Tuesday ...

FTSE Russell, a global index provider, added South Korea to the watch list for potential inclusion in its FTSE World Government Bond Index (WGBI), p...

South Korea is set to take measures to stabilize local stock and bond markets hit by global interest rate hikes amid growing risks of a worldwide ec...

Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, announced on Wednesday that it has formed a joint venture with Mis...

Hanwha Group’s agreement to buy a controlling stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Co. for 2 trillion won ($1.4 billio...

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday signaled another 50-basis-point policy interest rate hike as the won currency weakened past the psychol...

Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee will meet with Japan’s SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son next month to discuss a deal reg...

Warehouse development projects in South Korea, which boomed amid COVID-19, are facing challenges such as suspension of construction projects and ban...

South Korea’s SG Private Equity is set to acquire local industrial gas supplier Hankook Special Gases Co. for a deal in the early 100 billion ...

A South Korean private equity consortium has acquired Daehan Shipbuilding Co., a small-size oil tanker manufacturer, for around 200 billion won ($15...

KKR & Co. and Anchor Equity Partners have tentatively agreed to sell their majority stake in South Korea’s e-commerce player TMON Inc. to ...

South Korea’s land ministry has advised Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. to cut the proposed leverage for its 4.1 trillion ($3 billion) deal...

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

  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...

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...

South Korea’s Hyundai Card Co. has shelved a plan to go public after Taiwan’s Fubon Financial Holding Co. completed the purchase of its ...

LB Private Equity Inc., a South Korean PE firm specializing in secondary and buyout investments, has liquidated its 120 billion won ($93.4 million) ...

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