SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean banks’ household loans increased by the largest amount on record in August amid rising home prices and a rally in the stock market, central bank data showed Wednesday. Outstanding bank loans to local households came to 948.2 trillion won (US$796.9 billion) as of end-August, up 11.7 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major banks are likely to continue to provide financial support for smaller firms and one-man operations to help them tide over the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, industry sources said Tuesday. The country’s five key lenders — KB Kookmin, Shinha, Hana, Woori and NH Nonghyup — have [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s four major banks — KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori and KEB Hana — introduced joint automated teller machines (ATMs) at four Emart stores on Tuesday as part of a pilot project. The new venture comes as an alternative to the decreasing number of other ATMs caused by the [...]
NEW YORK, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — LiquidX, the global network for working capital, trade finance and insurance, announced that it will now offer a white label deployment of the next-generation LiquidX 360 platform for banks to enhance their trade finance business with their corporate clients. The LiquidX Partner Program (LPP) enables corporate bankers to [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean banks are sanitizing paper currency to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Woori Bank began disinfecting paper money sent from local branches to headquarters, while sanitizing all vaults at local branches and headquarters regularly. NH Nonghyup Bank sent three 20-liter containers of disinfectant and a spray gun [...]
GWANGJU, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Automated teller machines (ATMs) are increasingly losing ground due to a boost in credit card use and the growing popularity of Internet and mobile banking. Some predict that these automated banking devices, which have drastically changed financial culture, will gradually disappear into history. According to data from Kwangju Bank, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s wealth management services market is rapidly expanding as an increasing number of high-net-worth individuals in Asia’s fourth-largest economy look for reliable, effective means to manage their assets. Private banking (PB) and wealth management services have long been exclusively tailored to a limited number of customers that include [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s banking industry is continuing to shrink. Hundreds of employees have already left or are preparing to leave due to special retirement at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. The country’s five major lenders — KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Woori, KEB Hana, and NH [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial watchdog said Thursday that two local banks should provide compensation for up to 80 percent of their customers’ losses from a recent misselling of derivatives linked to overseas interest rates. The arbitration committee of the Financial Supervisory Service recommended the compensation rate of 40-80 percent to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean banks are going beyond past practices to collaborate with other industries. KB Kookmin Bank’s Liiv Mobile is gaining the attention of the financial services market by combining finance and communications technology. Current legislation states that banks cannot engage in business activities outside of their traditional domain. However, [...]