South Korea's FSC ordered financial firms to audit and report on all exposed systems after bank breaches local media put at 144,000 customers. Each firm's findings go to a regulator that has also pledged to oversee compensation and look for rule changes.
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South Korea's FSC paused a plan to open bank network-separation exemptions to 75 firms after ARTEX-assisted hacks breached seven financial firms. The pause holds back at most 15 exemptions while regulators work out whether the attacker got in through the rule they were loosening or around it.
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Korea's finance ministry proposed licensing crypto moves between Korean exchanges and overseas providers or private wallets, with a two-person staffing floor. Registration is cheap, so the cost to operators lies in filing transfer records for state investigators.
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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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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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FSS Governor Lee Chan-jin proposed a sandbox pilot in which Korean consumer lenders would screen and guarantee bank loans to mid- and low-credit borrowers. Banks would supply the money and the lenders would carry the default risk, in a business Korean law does not yet allow.
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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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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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Interest income rose 8.3% to 32.2 trillion won in the first half, but a 5.7 trillion won swing in securities results turned that into a 6.4% profit decline.
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