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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...
Kyochon F&B, South Korea’s largest fried chicken franchise, will go public next month, aiming to secureup to 71.3 billion won ($61.4 million) of funding. According to the company’s securities report submitted to the Financial Services Commission on Oct. 5, the fried chicken franchise will issue...
Within less than an hour, nearly 2.7 trillion won ($2.32 billion) flowed into brokerages handling a two-day public subscription for shares of Big Hit Entertainment, the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, Monday, reflecting explosive interests from retail investors, industry insiders said. Retail ...
Lotte Insurance said on Sept. 25 that it would not consider delisting itself from the country’s main bourse Kospi, refuting rumors by some local media reports. Followed by the nation’s sole bourse operator’s call for explanation on the delisting rumors, the insurance firm made its official an...
Major South Korean lenders’ decision to invest some $100 million in a hotel and retail project at 20 Times Square in New York in 2018 has come back to bite them two years later, with the property’s foreclosure last year continuing to wreak havoc, local reports said on Sept. 24. In 2018, French ...
Korean investment banking group Mirae Asset Group is being swamped by litigations at home and abroad, including one against China’s Dajia Insurance Group surrounding high-profile hotel deals in the United States, filings showed Monday. As of the end of June, the total litigation costs incurred to...
With a mere estimate of the market value of Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind BTS, reaching nearly 4.6 trillion won ($3.97 billion), eyes are on the seven-member boy band that generates most of the company’s revenue. The K-pop agency is scheduled to make its market debut on South Korea’s ...
South Korean asset manager Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management said on Sept. 18 that it would beef up efforts to take climate change into account in its asset management business, as part of its green finance and impact investing. Under its climate action declaration released Friday, the joint v...
Representatives of South Korean institutional investors said Tuesday they were increasingly tapping into distressed asset classes in their capital deployment to real estate assets, as the novel coronavirus disruption in the market is upping the appetite for the two extremes: very safe and very risk...
Amid heated competition over public subscriptions in Korea’s initial public offering market, the local top internet-only bank’s valuation on the pre-IPO market has soared, exceeding the combined market cap of the four major financial groups here. According to local industry sources on Sept. 16,...
Financial intelligence firm PEI said Sunday it plans to host its PERE Investor Forum: Seoul Virtual Experience 2020 on Tuesday. The virtual event is designed to connect South Korean investors with global fund managers and investment advisers to get a glimpse of the future capital flows in the re...
Kakao Games continued its bullish run on the Kosdaq market, with shares spiking by a daily permissible limit of nearly 30 percent for a second consecutive day on Sept. 11. As soon as trading began, the company’s stock price reached 81,100 won ($68.22) per share, up 18,700 won or 29.97 percent fr...
Korean asset management houses are facing a ripple effect from London-based investor H2O Asset Management‘s decision to halt fund withdrawals for four weeks and to draw up measures to seek redress from the fund freeze, according to an announcement on Sept. 8. VI Asset Management and Kiwoom Asset...
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