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Earnings S.Korea’s top 4 financial holding firms cheer upbeat Q1 results

South Korea’s top four financial holding companies – Shinhan, KB, Hana and Woori – reported stellar earnings for the first quarter...

Real estate Mirae, Koramco, Hana shortlisted for Korea Post’s core real estate fund

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Koramco REITs Management and Trust Co. and Hana Alternative Asset Management Co. were shortlisted for the mandat...

Banking & Finance Hana Asset Management to merge with Hana Alternative Asset

Hana Financial Group, the parent of Hana Bank and Hana Securities Co, will merge its two asset management arms to bolster its non-banking services, ...

Banking & Finance Hana Financial CEO set for reappointment with foreign investor backing

More than half of the foreign shareholders in Hana Financial Group have thrown their support behind Chief Executive Ham Young-joo for a second term,...

Shareholder value Hana Financial to boost corporate value by raising shareholder returns

South Korea’s Hana Financial Group aims to increase corporate value by ramping up shareholder returns based on a sustainable profit structure ...

Earnings Hana Financial to buy back $280 mn shares after record 2024

Hana Financial Group will buy back 400 billion won ($280 million) worth of shares to retire, marking its largest-ever repurchase, in line with ongoi...

Banking & Finance Hana Financial, Bain Capital to expand investment in S.Korea

South Korean Hana Financial Group and the US-based global well-known private equity fund (PEF) Bain Capital plan to strengthen their strategic par...

Mergers & Acquisitions MBK kicks off Lotte Card sale for about $1.4 bn in 2nd bid

Lotte Card Co. is expected to be up for grabs in the first half of next year amid a second sale attempt by its largest shareholder MBK Partners, a N...

Pension funds NPS commits $436 mn to Koramco, Hana Alternative for real estate lending

The National Pension Service (NPS), South Korea’s largest institutional investor, has selected Koramco Asset Management Co. and Hana Alternati...

Banking & Finance Korea's Hana Bank to promote foreigners as managers in overseas units

South Korean banks are set to reshuffle overseas units by promoting local staff to management positions, in a bid to boost the sluggish profitabilit...

Asset management Hana Financial’s Hana The Next: New financial services tailored for seniors

As South Korea’s baby boomers, the demographic cohort born between 1955 and 1963, are reaching retirement age, financial institutions are reac...

Banking & Finance S.Korea's Hana Card, KFCC launch first PLCC

South Korea's Hana Card said on Tuesday it launched the first private label credit card (PLCC) product, the "MG+ Credit Card Primo Hana Card" of the...

Fintech Naver Pay partners with GLN International

South Korea's Naver Pay announced on Wednesday that it partnered with Hana Bank’s global payment network subsidiary, GLN International, to lau...

Banking & Finance Korea’s Hana Financial Group targets foreign customers

Hana Financial Group, South Korea’s third-largest financial holding company, is targeting foreign individual customers in the country with a d...

Banking & Finance Hana Bank opens branch for foreign customers in Pyeongtaek

South Korea's Hana Bank said on Thursday that it opened a branch for foreigners in Pyeongtaek.The Pyeongtaek Foreign Customer Center, located in Pye...

Banking & Finance Hana Bank opens overseas office in Monterrey, Mexico

Hana Financial Group announced on Thursday that it opened the Monterrey Office, the first business channel of Hana Bank Mexico, in Monterrey, Mexico...

Banking & Finance Hana Financial, SK Telecom buy shares in BitGo

Hana Financial Group and SK Telecom Co. acquired shares in BitGo Korea, the Korean unit of a global digital asset trust company, and decided to esta...

Banking & Finance Hana Card's debit card overseas payment reaches 50%

South Korea's Hana Card reported on Friday that its domestic market share in overseas debit card payments has reached nearly 50%.The number of sub...

Energy Kolon Global, Hana Bank to form onshore wind power fund

South Korea's Kolon Global Corp. announced on Tuesday it signed an agreement with Hana Bank, Hana Alternative Asset Management, and MDM Asset Manage...

Banking & Finance Hana Card, Toss Bank jointly launch PLCC card

South Korea's Hana Card announced on Friday that it partnered with Toss Bank to launch its first private label credit card (PLCC), the Toss Bank Cre...

Korean startups Hana Bank, SK Telecom to support AI startups

South Korea's Hana Bank and SK Telecom Co. held the final selection and inauguration ceremony for the second AI Startup Accelerator BootCamp at Spar...

Banking & Finance Hana Financial mulls non-banking M&As for growth: CEO

Hana Financial Group, one of South Korea's top five financial groups, is mulling mergers and acquisitions in non-banking sectors in a bid to seize n...

Travel & Leisure S.Korean travelers splurge in Japan on softer yen

South Korean travelers spent a total of 431.4 billion won ($312 million) through debit and credit cards in Japan in the first half of this year, twi...

Banking & Finance S.Korea’s travel payment card market competition heats up

Competition in the South Korean travel payment card market intensified as increasing overseas trips and cross-border shopping prompted credit card i...

Banking & Finance Hana Securities services S.Korean stock investment in Hong Kong

South Korea's Hana Securities announced on Tuesday that it launched a service allowing Hong Kong investors to open its accounts through Hong Kong's ...

Banking & Finance Hana Bank launches All-care Solution for Real Estate Wealth

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...

Banking & Finance Samsung seeks to launch new super mobile banking app with a local bank

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

Banking & Finance Korea's Shinhan, Hana accelerate overseas push after record profits

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

Banking & Finance Hana Bank issues Hana Certification in 16 languages

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

Korean chipmakers Hana Micron to develop 2.5D packaging for Nvidia’s H100 AI chip: CEO

With burgeoning demand for high-performance artificial intelligence chips, back-end process technology, which assembles various semiconductors and t...