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Chairman Kim Jung-tae of Hana Financial Group.
Hana Financial Group posted 1.345 trillion won in net profit in 2016, up nearly 50 percent year-on-year, the group said on Jan. 24. It’s the largest net profit since Hana Bank merged with Korea Exchange Bank in 2012.
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Chairman Kim Yong-hwan of NH Financial Group shakes hands with a staff as he visits the NH Investment and Securities Co. head office with President Kim Won-kyu of the securities affiliate of the group behind him.(Photo: NH Financial Group)
NH Bank erased the deficit it incurred in 2015 and hi…
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Chairman-designate Cho Yong-beong of Shinhan Bank slated to succeed chairman Han Dong-woo of Shinhan Financial Group who retires in March.(Photos: SFG)Shinhan Card President Wi Sung-ho tapped as Shinhan Bank president.
Cho Yong-beong, the chairman-designate of Shinhan Financial Group said he will g…
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President Lee Kwang-goo of Woori Bank.
President Lee Kwang-goo of Woori Bank has been recommended as the first president of the privatized Woori Bank by the Woori Bank President Recommendation Committee.
The president-nominee will officially take over the office for two years as soon as shareholde…
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President Kim Do-jin of Industrial Bank of Korea.(Photo: IBK)
The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) logged consolidated net profit of 1.164,6 trillion won in 2016, up 1.6 percent YoY, which includes those of IBK Capital and IBK Investment and Securities.
IBK posted its own net profit of 1.267 t…
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KB Card CEO Yoon Woong-won.
KB Kookmin Card Co. introduced a blockchain-based personal authentication system for its bank service users from November last year, becoming the first Korean financial institution to adopt such a simplified, but more secure mobile payment verification system in Korea.
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President Kim Won-kyu of NH Investment and Securities Co,(Photos:NHIS)
NH Investment and Securities Co. has decided to push the Mirae Asset Rogers Commodity Index Fund, which is focused on investments in industrial raw materials, including energy, minerals and farm produce. Experts are now counting…
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Chairman Hwang Young-key of the Korea Financial Investment Association.
Chairman Hwang Young-key of the Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) said there are some financial regulations that the securities firms find very restrictive for their operations, and thus, need to be reformed.
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President Chun Byong-jo of KB Securities.
KB Securities Co. will strengthen its PEF operation in the new year by setting up a fund and establishing a team to take charge of its operation.
According to IB sources, the securities firm may consider setting up a PEF as large as as 300 billion won to b…
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President Kang Dae-sok of Shinhan Investment and Securities. (Photo: Shinhan I&S)
Shinhan Investment and Securities Co. won the 2017 Maekyung Gold Securities Award for having the largest number of products in the mid-level earnings range and for its outstanding performance ratings for empl…
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President Hong Beom-sik of LG Uplus. (Photos: LG Uplus)LG Uplus said on Oct. 23 that a paper on its in-house developed Generative AI technology “ixi-GEN” was recognized by EMNLP 2025, one of the world’s top natural language processing (NLP) confer…
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LG Uplus CISO and CPO Hong Kwan-hee explains security-first strategies at a meeting on security strategies at LG Uplus office building in Yongsan, Seoul, on July 29. (Photo: LG Uplus)LG Uplus has unveiled “U-Dok Pick AI,” combining a variety of AI …
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CEO Kim Young-shub of KT. (Photos: KT)KT said on June 12 that Palantir Chief Revenue Officer Ryan Taylor visited Korea and executives and staffers from both sides discussed the direction of specific strategies. Palantir is a software platform de…
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President Park Yoon-kyu of the National Industry Promotion Agency poses with WIS Innovation Awards winners at an awards ceremony on the sidelines of 2025 World IT Show, which took place at COEX in Seoul from April 24 to April 26. (Photo: NIPA)2025 Wo…
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