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Parent group for which Shinhan Securities positions itself as the capital-market hub contributing to non-banking profitability.
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Visa surveyed 14,250 Asia Pacific consumers and found 46% likely to use stablecoins within five years, against 16% who used one last year. Just 6% could explain how the tokens work, so the past-year figure is the better guide to demand.
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Visa signed a cooperation memorandum with Abu Dhabi's ADI Foundation to study blockchain payments, without naming a chain, stablecoin, product or launch date. Until a settlement asset and a date appear, the pact gives Visa a regional position for the stablecoin settlement work it has been testing with Lloyds and in South Korea.
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Shinhan Bank exposed data on about 25,000 customers through a loan-broker inquiry platform kept apart from its core banking systems. Yonhap reports AI may have automated the credential stuffing, so the side systems that touch customer data are where lenders' security spending now gets tested.
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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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The KOSPI closed up 0.88% on the 21st while the KOSDAQ fell 4.63%. That gap is not risk appetite. It is two chip names promising to hand cash back.
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Product fee income rose 158% and IB revenue 248% in the first half. Both were earned in a rising market, and neither has been tested in a falling one.
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