SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinhan Financial Group ranked 36th on the list of Top 500 Banking Brands in a recent issue of The Banker. Shinhan also kept Korea’s no. 1 banking brand position on the list for the fourth consecutive year, and ranked 9th out of the top 10 brands in Asia. Shinhan got [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinhan Financial Group held a signing ceremony on November 14 with six institutional investors who will invest in the 200-billion-won “Shinhan BNPP Japan Solar Power Fund.” The targeted blind fund will specialize in investing in companies in Japan’s solar power industry. This is a 23-year closed private equity trust fund [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) —The compensation of leaders in major financial institutions has increased too much too fast while their financial performances are not getting any better. Korea Institute of Finance research fellow Kim Woo-jin said in a report “What Makes Global Top-50 Banks Different from Others?” the annual pay of Korean bank CEOs is [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Ahead of a measure to relax regulations on barriers between different financial services such as banking, securities, and insurance, responses are mixed. Some large financial service firms with operations across multiple areas welcome the announcement while those that are not big enough fret that the measure would change the industry landscape completely [...]