Kim Nam-goo, chairman of Korea Investment Holdings, takes questions from students in the “TALK ON HANTogether” Event on Sept. 16. (Photo: Korea Investment & Securities)

Securities firms are accelerating their moves after obtaining the main license for their credit information management business, dubbed the “MyData”.

Korea Investment & Securities announced on Sept. 13 that it obtained a license from the Financial Services Commission on Sept. 8 and will launch a differentiated service that can suggest investment directions in everyday life within this year.

Korea Investment & Securities will zero in on the concept of “investment in everyday life” in its MyData business.

The company plans to release a service that analyzes customers' consumption patterns and provides customized asset management consulting, based on the results of the analysis in the second half of this year.

For example, Korea Investment & Securities is developing a service to suggest investment in stocks of companies related to products frequently purchased by customers, and search for information on related stocks through images of products and invest in them.

Korea Investment & Securities’ MyData Application will also be loaded with functions that utilize AI, such as AI Research (AIR), an artificial intelligence (AI) research service developed by the Korea Investment & Securities Research Center.

Through this service, reports on the status of assets and areas of interest and analyses of news about stocks will be provided based on customer data.

In addition, by differentiating its MyData services from the existing Mobile Trading System (MTS), Korea Investment & Securities will implement a platform with an easy-to-access and intuitive user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) for customers who do not have much financial investment experience.

Korea Investment & Securities set up the Digital Platform Headquarters earlier this year and focused its capabilities on developing big data infrastructure and analysis engines.

It prepared the MyData business by signing business agreements with NICE ZiniData, a big data-specialized company, Deep Search, an AI data analysis platform, and NICE Investors Service, a credit information company.

With the acquisition of the MyData business license, we will strengthen data competitiveness and provide new values to customers by combining them with data in various fields, said Jung Il-moon, president of Korea Investment & Securities.

In the meantime, Korea Investment & Securities Co., a subsidiary of Korea Investment Holdings, repeated its recruitment briefing culture this year by preparing an event where job seekers and the chairman of Korea Investment Holdings meet in person.

On Sept. 16, the “TALK ON HANTogether” Event was held in the Auditorium of Korea Investment & Securities' headquarters, Kim Nam-goo, chairman of Korea Investment Holdings, had the time to communicate with participating students.

The recruitment briefing, which was held simultaneously through the Zoom video conferencing service and YouTube, began with Chairman Kim’s lecture on the theme of “Our Dream.”

“We have a vision to contribute to society through finance,” Chairman Kim said in the lecture. “We look for partners who will try to reach our goals with the same dream as us.”

In a Q&A session, Chairman Kim had time to take questions through the video conferences, and YouTube. “Improving resumes is important.”

Chairman Kim replied when asked what kind of capabilities he would develop if he was a job seeker. He said “But more importantly, I will summarize my own life story while looking back on my life and asking myself what I want to do in the future.”

Chairman Kim has thus far visited recruitment briefing venues and communicated with students every year for 19 years.

Since last year when the COVID-19 virus began to spread, Chairman Kim did not stop showing his love of meeting young people such as pushing for an online briefing session to continue his meetings with them.

Of the 2,896 students who applied for the event in advance, 49 representing each school participated in the job briefing in person. Forty-nine selected students entered the zoom video conference space.

More than 1,800 other people who were unable to participate in the event in person participated through YouTube live broadcast that was streamed live.

Korea Investment & Securities plans to hire around 100 new employees through an open recruitment process in the second half of this year.