SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator on Monday launched a special inspection into Samsung Securities Co. over the brokerage’s “fat-finger” trading chaos after it paid windfall stocks to its employees as dividends. Under an employee stock ownership plan, Samsung Securities had been planning to pay cash dividends of 1,000 won (US$0.93) [...]
SEOUL, Nov.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Securities firms are changing their window of communication from company newsletters to webzines. Instead of company newsletters that only shared corporate news with employees, webzines are not only providing tips and information on finance, but also other content related to topics such as culture and travel, establishing a multi-communication platform [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) – As the Shenzhen Stock Exchange is expected to open to international investors in the latter half of this year, Korean securities companies are busy preparing to join the market by aligning their trading systems and analyzing the stock items in the market. According to financial industry observers, the stock connect [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean conglomerates and financial service firms have almost doubled their presence in Hong Kong since the global financial debacle in 2008. However, according to Yonhap News Agency, European firms and financial companies are moving to leave the “Pearl of Asia” in droves, raising concerns among Korean companies [...]