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Woori Bank is a major South Korean commercial bank offering retail and corporate banking, including mortgages, deposits, and loans.
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Woori Bank says it is the first Korean commercial bank to hedge a UK client's swap on its own London book, with a 70 million pound trade. It shows Woori can now carry UK rate risk in London, though winning that business on price will take repeat deals.
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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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Rep. Park Sung-hoon wants authorities to examine how 52 South Korean minors came to hold over 1 billion won in bank deposits, up from 42 seven months earlier. The rise is ten children in a tally that can count one child twice, while billion-won accounts hold about 0.7% of minors' 9.74 trillion won.
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President Lee Jae-myung ordered a full probe of hacks that exposed data at four Korean banks, including about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers. The response runs through every financial industry association before the probe has shown whether the banks share a weak point.
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XRP Asia, backed by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, launched in Singapore on Oct. 3 to connect Asia-Pacific XRPL builders with grants and partners. The grants it points to are Ripple's older programs, and the best documented of them offered up to $200,000 per Japanese project starting in June 2025.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered a sector-wide security review after suspected AI-agent hackers hit the country's five largest banks. The three biggest leaks ran through employee, sales and broker tools, so the review's cost lands on systems customers never see.
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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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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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Seoul apartment prices rose 0.09% in the week to Sept. 28, a record 86th straight weekly gain, at a third of late August's pace. Gangnam District fell 0.56%, the steepest of its last six weekly declines, so districts outside Gangnam now carry the citywide gain.
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Woori Bank raised its one-year corporate deposit rate to 4.09% on September 30, up 1.12 points this year. With companies supplying about 80% of Korean bank deposits, that posted rate now sits within 0.6 points of what banks charged on new mortgages in August.
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Seoul jeonse deposits rose 5.91% in the first eight months of this year, the most since 2011, while monthly rents rose a record 5.65%, official data show. That pressure is now lifting apartment prices outside Gangnam, where the government's focus on sale prices has not held them down.
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KODEX200, which tracks Korea's KOSPI 200, returned 80.76% this year to Sept. 20, about 40 times what big-bank deposits paid. Savers paid that gap for holding cash since January, while Daishin's own analyst puts further upside at about 8.5% and ties it to easing rates and oil.
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Small-business delinquency at KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana and Woori reached 0.53% to 0.92% by the end of August, above every household ratio at the four banks. Recent rate rises have not fully reached delinquency ratios, a financial industry official says, so households paying up to 6.89% on mortgages are the risk still to show up.
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The KRW1 white paper says issuance and redemption sit inside the anti-money-laundering registration BDACS already holds. Korea has not legislated who may issue a won stablecoin, and regulators plan to look into the wording.
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A Seoul Economic Daily poll of 20 foreign exchange specialists puts the level that would steady Korean growth and inflation in the low 1,300s. The question it asked was what level is appropriate.
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KB Financial Group earned a record 5.843 trillion won last year and sits behind a rival in each of its five main business lines. Its nomination committee has put a division head, Lee Jae-keun, forward as chairman.
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Technology firms' AI bond issuance is one of the named drivers behind multi-decade highs in long yields. In Korea the transmission ends in roughly 720 trillion won of self-employed debt that reprices, at 1.8 trillion won per quarter point.
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The July-to-August buying averaged 856.46 won per 100 yen against a 857.13 spot, which leaves the cohort ahead by eight hundredths of a percent on a position whose exit costs 1.5 to 2 percent.
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Five of Seoul's 25 districts are still short of their 2021-22 highs, which is the best argument that the city's rally has room left and also the reason a change to the mortgage ceiling would land on them first.
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Lenders are competing to launch 100%-guaranteed products while public funds' repayments on behalf of borrowers hit a decade high. The screening did not vanish; it moved.
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