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South Korea's top financial regulator, setting policy and rules for banking, securities, and crypto markets and overseeing financial institutions.
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Korean regulators sent security orders to about 500 financial firms after the same attacker IP turned up in breaches at seven lenders. Almost every firm doing the emergency reviews has no reported breach, so the cost is shared across the sector.
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FSC chairman Lee Eok-won told Korean financial firms they will be held strictly accountable under law if the hacks that hit six lenders happen again. The threat covers future breaches, so for the firms already hit the cost so far is five requests, including security checks and customer compensation.
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Korea's community credit cooperative federation blocked access from the IP address behind the Shinhan Bank leak as attacks reached a fourth financial sector. The main way in so far has been services built for loan brokers and employees, set apart from the systems that process transactions.
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South Korea cut October Treasury bond issuance by 5 trillion won and plans 3.5 trillion won of buybacks as US 10-year yields hit their highest since 2002. Both steps manage supply, so the level of won yields still depends on what US Treasuries do next.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered banks and card firms to check every externally reachable IT system after data leaks at four banks. The regulator will collect the returns and use them to build new cybersecurity measures for the financial sector.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission is reviewing an exemption from Scope 3 reporting, due from 2031, for companies outside high-carbon industries. The rules reach only large KOSPI issuers, so the carve-out would spare a subset of them the supplier-data work that companies rank as the hardest part of disclosure.
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Korea taxes fractional-investment gains as dividends, 15.4% withheld and up to 49.5% for high earners, while small stockholders pay no capital-gains tax. For the income-paying products retail buyers can reach at February's launch, thin trading looks like the bigger constraint.
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Seoul's new policy mortgage lends up to 320 million won to first-time buyers aged 39 or under. Turning 40 removes access to the whole youth finance track.
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The KoFIU and the Financial Supervisory Service are examining how KRWQ Gifts turns a won-pegged offshore token into mobile vouchers at about 90 Korean brands with no KYC, roughly three weeks after a newspaper reported it.
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The People Power Party's leader says he opposes a central bank digital currency until safeguards are written into law. The July expansion of Project Hangang cleared through the Financial Services Commission.
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Phase one is pegged to the day the amended securities law takes effect, stablecoin settlement sits in an undated third phase, and the entry price for a non-bank issuer is 4 billion won of equity plus dedicated staff.
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Hanwha's tokenized securities platform runs on Avalanche now, while the Korean law that makes ledger records a securities register starts on February 4, 2027, and starts with private placements rather than listed stock.
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The Financial Services Commission will let issuers bundle same-type assets into one fractional certificate and extend tokenization to stocks, bonds and funds. Bonds and funds start as institutional private placements, with retail net buying capped at 100 million won per venue.
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A wholly state-funded subsidiary of Korea Venture Investment Corp will seed 100 designated firms a year across ten fields, which puts the government on both sides of the trade, as first investor and as anchor customer.
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Scrapping the income and parental-income tests turns a targeted welfare product into an open matched-savings scheme, on a budget that stretches to roughly the 1.385 million savers who already applied.
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A National Assembly subcommittee sitting on Sept. 2 decides whether the stability fund opens in January, while the obligation on financial companies to fund low-income lending runs out on Oct. 8 regardless, and the opposition would rather extend the old levy five more years.
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From August 19 the Financial Services Commission and the Korea Exchange will meter access to single-stock leveraged ETFs with simulated trading, coursework and a 30 million won cash floor. Retail leverage becomes a licensed activity, priced in hours and idle cash.
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The FSC relocation plan reaches Cabinet this week. The agency trades address for institutional survival, while supervised firms in the capital region absorb the access cost on an unpublished timeline.
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Seven of eight new Seoul listings sit below their offer prices. The books cleared on day one; the damage arrived in the weeks after, which is a pricing-power problem rather than a valuation one.
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Ten lawmakers want the FIU to file its own criminal complaints against unregistered crypto operators. Police had dropped 23 of 25 referrals, mostly because the targets sat overseas.
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