SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — BC Card Co., a credit card processing firm owned by KT Corp., plans to acquire a 34 percent stake in the internet-only K-Bank, the company said Wednesday. The move came after KT’s plan to become the biggest shareholder of K-Bank faltered due to a legal hurdle. BC Card said [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean credit card company BC Card is adopting KT’s blockchain-based electronic signature capture system (ESC), a world’s first, which could slash the time spent processing electronic signatures by up to 70 percent. The collaboration between the South Korean telecom giant and BC Card will see the blockchain technology, which [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The first-quarter earnings of credit card companies in South Korea jumped 59.9 percent from a year earlier due mainly to one-off factors, the country’s financial regulator said Monday. The combined net profit of eight credit card firms, including Shinhan Card Co. and Lotte Card Co., came to 803.7 billion won (US$718.5 million) in the January-March period, compared to 502.5 billion won the previous year, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A local credit card company, BC Card, is predicting that those in their 40s to 50s who share personal interests with Deokhu (mania) or the younger generation will stand out as big players in terms of consumption next year. On November 29, BC Card announced its report of predicted consumption [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Prior to the official launch of Samsung Pay, Samsung Electronics‘ simple on and offline payment solution, Korean card companies are busy preparing for the service. According to credit card industry representatives, Samsung Card, Samsung Group’s card company, and BC Card are now offering a trial run of Samsung Pay [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – In the mega-hit movie “Minority Report,” buildings, shops and streets are full of electronic biometric systems that use red flashes and lights to scan the irises of all passers-by and identify them in order to send them custom-tailored services and advertisements. Before entering a security agency, Tom Cruise, who [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A special service by a Korean credit card company enabling users to restrict overseas usage of their own credit card by themselves to prevent fraud is gaining popularity. According to BC Card, provider of the “Self On-Off” service, the number of users of the service increased from 5,302 in [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – BC Card has decided to open the source code for mobile card issuance to all financial firms and start-ups to contribute to the growth of the FinTech industry in Korea. The company has already spent some 30 billion won to develop the source code. The biggest payment processing company and local [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – BC Card is set to launch Korea’s first mobile credit card service that does not involve the use of a real plastic card. According to a company statement on May 3, BC Card conducted a series of pre-launch tests for its new product over a period of four days, and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – BC Card, Korea’s biggest credit card company, said on December 2 that it has launched the “ZEP Service,” a simple smartphone-based payment solution that can be used in merchant establishments without online capability, in partnership with the state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute. The ZEP, short for zero-effort payment, service allows [...]