SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean banks are scurrying to further raise their lending rates, alarmed by a spike in household loans amid extended easing monetary policy, industry sources said Monday. KB Bank, Shinhan Bank and Hana Bank will raise their lending rates on mortgage loans by between 0.1 percentage point and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to gradually cut the maximum interest rate that private lenders can charge to 20 percent per annum, the financial regulator said Thursday. In a parliamentary audit meeting, Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Choi Jong-ku said the plan is aimed at further easing the financial burdens on [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will lower the maximum legal lending rate to 24 percent from next year and strengthen supervision of private lenders, in a move to help ease financial burdens for desperate borrowers, the nation’s top financial regulator said Wednesday. Choi Jong-ku, the new chairman of the Financial Services Commission [...]