SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s banking industry is performing a variety of experiments to ensure efficient and cost-effective branch operations, while, at the same time, speeding up the restructuring of branches as a way to promote a digital transformation. KEB Hana Bank and the state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) joined hands to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The financial regulator said Friday it will give preliminary approval next year for two groups to launch Internet-only banks, as the government aims to reinvigorate the banking industry. Choi Jong-ku, chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), made the remarks a day after the National Assembly passed a bill [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Prospects for Internet-only banks’ expansion received a major boost as President Moon Jae-in pledged to ease some regulations that ban nonfinancial companies from owning more than a 4 percent stake in a lender. Moon reversed his campaign pledge to keep the regulations intact Tuesday as he attended a meeting [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Banks and other financial institutions that increasingly rely on chatbots to interact with customers are vulnerable to breaches of personal data protection, the financial watchdog said Tuesday. A chatbot is a computer program or artificial intelligence that is used in various business sectors, enabling customers to communicate with firms [...]
SEOUL, January 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Digital disruption and cutthroat competition are shaking up the banking industry, with thousands of employees making the transition away from financial services jobs that were long considered as some of the most lucrative in Korea. The emergence of the fintech revolution leaves the prospects for the banking industry uncertain. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A while ago the Bank of Korea published a report on people’s tendency toward rarely opening up their wallets for fears of post-retirement livelihood. Then are Korean consumers saving more instead of spending? The reality is savings are falling as much as consumption. What’s going on here? According [...]