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South Korean financial holding company spanning banking, insurance, and asset management, with a stake in digital-asset custody ventures.
Incheon Mayor Park Chan-dae says 640 billion won of essential costs were left out of the 2026 budget, leaving the city about 500 billion won short. His spending cuts now compete for city money with his own mega-projects and a bid to co-host the 2028 G20 summit.
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Korean companies paid about $620 million in stablecoins between 2021 and September 2026, Allium data show, through affiliates and partners abroad. Whether that flow returns once Seoul's stablecoin bill arrives depends most on small exporters whose foreign buyers asked to pay this way.
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Hana Financial Group is moving about 2,200 holding-company and affiliate staff into a new Incheon headquarters beside its data center. Hana expects finance and IT staff sharing floors to build AI-driven services faster, a claim its coming product releases will test.
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MoonPay is pursuing stablecoin, remittance and payments work with KB Financial, Woori Bank and KakaoBank after opening a Korean entity in September. Its one-vendor pitch faces three other global entrants and four Korean firms, most of them selling banks a single layer of the stack.
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Upbit's parent gets Visa's network and a shortlist that includes an unlaunched consortium dollar coin. There is no launch date yet, because Seoul's draft law may reserve won-stablecoin issuance for bank-controlled groups.
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Korea's FIU accepted BitGo Korea's registration on the 18th, the first foreign digital-asset firm to register directly through a domestic subsidiary instead of buying one.
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