DAEGU, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — With the current heat wave showing no signs of letting up, some banks have turned their retail branches into “resting areas” for anyone who wants to cool down from the heat. Nonghyup Bank’s Daegu office said that it would open its regional bank branches to the public until late [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean central bank said Tuesday that it will adopt a new mobile cash card settlement service starting next year in a bid to expand simplified mobile payments in the country. A council on financial information by the Bank of Korea (BOK) and local banks decided to develop [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The average annual wage for a bank employee working at South Korea’s top four lenders is nearing the 100 million won (US$89,700) mark, market data showed Sunday. Assessment of quarterly reports by KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank and KEB Hana Bank showed that in the first three [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The financial regulator on Thursday ordered Samsung Securities Co. to suspend part of its operations for six months as punishment for the brokerage’s “fat-finger” error that sparked a massive public uproar. Samsung Securities will be banned from offering its services to new investors for six months from Friday, the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has decided to acquire 480 billion won of debt incurred over 10 years ago by small business owners, of which most will be written off. Meanwhile, an additional 1 trillion won will be pumped into the “Make it Happen” loan program for small business owners, which was [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Bank, South Korea’s second Internet-only bank, has posted rapid growth in its customer base and assets since its launch a year ago to overtake the country’s smallest regional lender, data showed Monday. Kakao Bank, controlled by Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, started [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In February, a man in his 40s secretly took out a loan for 1 million won from a loan shark, without his family’s knowledge, under the premise that he would be paying it back within a week. Left with only 600,000 won in his hands after 400,000 won in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight Samsung Securities officials have been indicted for selling “ghost” stocks that were mistakenly issued by the company in the massive fat-finger error that recently rattled the market, prosecutors said Monday. Three employees, including a 37-year-old surnamed Koo, will stand trial while being detained, with five others from the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean banks’ investment in crypto-assets remained low despite a recent craze for the new type of digital currencies, a central bank report said Friday. The outstanding balance of virtual accounts in local banks reached 2 trillion won (US$1.79 billion) as of December last year, according to the report [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. has seen its market capitalization touch an eight-year low as slumping global sales pound its share price, data showed Thursday. Shares of Hyundai Motor closed at 119,500 won (US$107) on Wednesday, the lowest closing price since April 19, 2010, according to the [...]