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NH NongHyup Bank said on Oct. 26 it has launched its branch office in Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar to expand its presence in the Southeast Asian country. The establishment of Yangon-based branch came after the lender had obtained final approval from the country’s central bank in late June...
Shinhan Financial Group said on Oct. 22 that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Vietnamese subsidiary of Singapore-based ride-hailing giant Grab to jointly develop new digital financial services. Under the agreement, Shinhan’s startup accelerator unit, Shinhan Future’s Lab Vie...
South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corp. was seeing a stock price fall in Ontario-based marijuana maker Canopy Growth, as its $18 million bet on the company lost glitter in the first half of 2020, a lawmaker said on Oct. 19. The ruling Democratic Party of Korea’s Rep. Jung Su...
London-based financial intelligence company PEI said Oct. 19 it planned to hold PDI Seoul Forum Virtual Experience on Nov. 10. The virtual event, organized by PEI’s publication Private Debt Investor, is expected to offer participants a glimpse of private debt investment strategies, debt investo...
South Korea’s buyout firm IMM Private Equity is looking for a buyer for Taihan Electric Wire starting November, five years after it invested 300 billion won ($261.7 million) in the then-debt-saddled company for a controlling stake, according to sources on Oct. 16. Shares of Taihan, the nation’s...
Share price of Big Hit Entertainment, an entertainment agency behind K-pop boy band BTS, slid for two straight days right after the high profile initial public offering on Oct. 15. The company’s stock price traded 19.77 percent lower at 207,000 won ($180.6) in intraday trading Friday. After soar...
Despite the containment of the coronavirus pandemic nationwide, South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, is still sitting on an economic powder keg, high-ranking officials of credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings said on Oct. 15. While Korea and other Asia-Pacific economies are seeing a rela...
Standard Chartered Bank Korea, KB Financial Group and Mirae Asset Daewoo were recognized for their best practices in corporate governance and ESG management, respectively, the companies said Wednesday. SC Bank Korea, wholly owned by London-based Standard Chartered Bank, received the “A+” rating...
South Korea’s tax agency has returned over 300 billion won ($260.89 million) of corporate tax to overseas funds over last five years, after losing lawsuits related to tax returns. According to data compiled by the National Tax Service, NTS had a total of 14 administrative litigation cases regar...
Kids Note, an operator of a mobile platform for nursery schools and parents in South Korea, said on Oct. 13 it was preparing to go public in 2022. As part of its initial steps for the planned initial public offering, the company has recently picked Daishin Securities as a lead underwriter. F...
South Korean mobile game developer Com2us said on Oct. 12 it had acquired a 100 percent stake in German sports game company Out of the Park Developments, the company’s first foreign takeover. Com2us, which already offers sports games officially licensed by Major League Baseball, the National Bas...
Shinhan Financial Group said Oct. 12 that minority shareholder BNP Paribas has bought a stake worth an undisclosed amount in the South Korean banking group by securing the minimum threshold to keep the strategic partnership intact after a scheduled equity increase. According to Shinhan, BNP Pariba...
Amid fierce backlash from retail investors on the Korean government’s major shareholder standards, the Finance Ministry is currently mulling to alter its plan to define retail investors with shares worth 300 million won ($260,000) as large shareholders. “The financial authority is considering t...
Yoo Myung-soon, interim chief executive officer of Citibank Korea, was recommended as the sole candidate for the bank‘s top post, paving the way for her to become the first female CEO of the local branch of the US lender. The appointment recommendation committee under the South Korean subsidiar...
GS Caltex said on Oct. 7 it signed an investment agreement with a Vietnamese car wash startup to expand its auto repair and lubricants businesses in the Southeast Asian country. According to the South Korean refiner, it will invest 39 billion dong ($1.6 million) to acquire a 16.7 percent stake in...
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