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Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group.(Photo:KBFG)
KB Financial Group’s 2015 net profit amounted to 1.698 trillion won, up 297.6 billion won or 21.3 percent YoY. Loan issuances rose 2 percent by its banking affiliate, KB Kookmin Bank in the 4th quarter, 2015, showing a healthy operation.
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Chairman Han Dong-woo of Shinhan Financial Group.(Photo:SFG)
Shinhan Financial Group held its 2016 Management Forum at Shinhan Bank's Training Institute in Kihung, Gyeonggi Province on Feb. 8-9 with CEOs and key executvies of the group number some 510 attending led by Chairman Han Dong-woo.
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Chairman Hong Ky-ttack of the KDB Financial Group has been appointed a vice president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the finance ministry said Feb. 3.
Hong Ky-ttack, who also runs the state-run Korea Development Bank, will serve as the chief risk officer of the AIIB. He will …
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Korea Investment and Securities Co. (KIS) set up an investment banking group under its wing, naming Kim Seong-hwan, project finance headquarters manager, to head the group on Jan. 1, 2016.
The new unit of KIS has been in charge of the corporate finance headquarters, the project financing headquarte…
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Chairman Yim Jong-yong of the Financial Services Commission.
Chairman Yim Jong-yong of the Financial Service Commission (FSC) said the financial community should break down its old practices of excessive self-protection and personnel policies based on the length of employment.
He made the re…
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A slew of the key officials in the financial authorities and financial industry clap hands during the New Year Gathering held on Jan. 5 at Lotte Hotel in downtown Seoul. Seen among the dignitaries are Deputy Minister Choi Kyung-hwan who is also the Minister of Strategy and Finance, Chairman Yim Jong…
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President Hong Young-man of the Korea Asset Management Corp.(KAMCO).President Hong delivers his speech at the company’s New Year ceremony on Jan. 4 at the company’s head office in Seoul.(Photos:KAMCO).
KAMCO will continue with its own “KAMCO-style” reforms this year, with self-innovation and si…
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Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group. (photo: KB Financial)
Chairman Yoon Jong-kyoo of KB Financial Group aims to boost the earnings ratio of non-banking affiliates to 40 percent of total group earnings. The new strategy comes in the wake of its failed takeover attempt of KDB Daewoo Securi…
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Chairman Han Dong-woo of the Shinhan Financial Group.(Photo:SFG)
Shinhan Finance Group announced plans to expand investments in Fintech companies in the new year. The investments will be done directly through Shinhan Group’s affiliates, such as Shinhan Bank and Shinhan Capital, to support substant…
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Chairman Kim Yong-hwan, left, holds a copy of the MOU signed between NH Financial Group and China Co-Op Group with his Chinese counterpart Yang Fenglu on Jan. 7 at the Chinese company’s office in Beijing, China.(Photo:NH Financial).
Chairman Kim Yong-hwan of NH Financial Group said this will be th…
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President Hwang Ju-ho of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) (Photos: KHNP)Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) held the “Team Korea Project Promotion Strategy Meeting for the Czech New Nuclear Power Project” to implement the new nuclear power…
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(from left) Chmn. Koo Ja-kyun of LS ELECTRIC, President Kim Dong-cheol of Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) and President Koo Bon-gyu of LS Cable & System attend a ceremony to strike an MOU on building a data center superconductivity power gird …
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Chairman Koo Ja-eun of LS Group. (Photos: LS Group)The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)” which went into force after it was signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, has made Korean companies stand on the guard due to curtailment and early terminat…
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Chairman Park Jung-won of Doosan Group. (Photo: Doosan Group)Doosan Enerbility said on July 23 that it had obtained a type certification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the global leader in product safety testing and certification, for its 10MW …
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