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SC offers maximum 1.7% rate to investors looking to park cashMarketsMay 28, 2018Amid widening market volatility on looming rate hikes at home and abroad, investors have been taking to money market accounts to park their cash. One of such accounts by Standard Chartered Bank Kore... -
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[Herald Interview] Crypto frenzy to give way to market sophisticationMarketsMay 25, 2018Four years have passed since Alex Tapscott, then a Canadian investment banker, published a seminal white paper that pictures bitcoin blockchain’s potential financial use free of intermediaries. The ... -
Stock market faces limited impact from summit collapseMarketsMay 25, 2018South Korea‘s stock markets erased their morning loss in the afternoon Friday, dwarfing investor concerns about US President Donald Trump’s announcement to cancel a planned summit with North Korea le... -
BOK freezes key rate on emerging market woesMarketsMay 24, 2018South Korea’s central bank kept the interest rate steady at 1.5 percent for six straight months in a unanimous board decision Thursday, citing external uncertainties due to an upshot in capital influ... -
CME sanctions Hana Financial Investment's derivatives tradingMarketsMay 23, 2018US exchange operator CME Group has immediately suspended South Korea’s brokerage Hana Financial Investment‘s access to electronic trading or clearing platforms and markets run by the US derivatives e... -
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[Herald Interview] Gopax seeks to win back public trust in cryptocurrencyMarketsMay 22, 2018The Korea Herald is publishing a series of interviews on promising startups in the financial technology industry. This is the 15th installment. - Ed. Four cryptocurrency exchanges -- Upbit, Bithumb,... -
Korean banks to see eased regulation on offshore expansionMarketsMay 21, 2018Banks in South Korea will see eased regulation when opening physical offshore units, as a revision bill gained approval from the Cabinet on Monday. Following the revision of the Enforcement Decree o... -
Kospi-listed firms see higher indebtedness in 2017: KRXMarketsMay 21, 2018Companies listed on South Korea’s top-tier stock market Kospi saw their debt-to-capital ratio come to 111.4 percent in 2017, up 0.9 percentage point on-year, data showed Monday. The combined amount ... -
Daejeon offers to partner with Adobe to bolster digital literacyTechnologyMay 20, 2018The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government offered to partner with US computer software company Adobe Systems, seeking to bolster the digital literacy of its citizens, officials said Sunday. Han Sun-h... -
Ledger-free blockchain to tokenize 1st businessMarketsMay 17, 2018PureChain, a ledger-free blockchain running on an inter-device communication system, seeks to tokenize its first business that it expects to shape the “gift economy,” its developers said Thursday. C... -
Advocacy group urges policy for defense against hostile activist fundsIndustryMay 16, 2018The nonprofit Korea Listed Companies Association, which represents some 2,000 listed companies, urged the government Wednesday to come up with a policy to allow companies to defend against hostile mo... -
Korean stocks newly added to MSCI EM moderately rallyMarketsMay 15, 2018Large and mid-cap South Korean stocks set to be added to global and regional equity indexes by MSCI moderately rallied Tuesday, after an announcement by the US index publisher to rebalance its indexe... -
Kakao Games applies for IPO on KosdaqTechnologyMay 14, 2018Kakao Games, South Korea‘s online and mobile game software developer and publisher, has applied for a preliminary screening for an initial public offering on the second-tier Kosdaq, according to the ... -
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[Kosdaq Star] 3-D inspection tech pioneer Koh Young avoids market slumpMarketsMay 14, 2018This is the 55th in a series of articles analyzing major companies traded on the tech-heavy Kosdaq market. -- Ed. While leading sectors of South Korea’s second-tier stock market Kosdaq have suffered... -
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[News Focus] Samsung BioLogics’ alleged accounting fraud brings 2015 merger back under scrutinyIndustryMay 11, 2018Growing allegations that biopharma firm Samsung BioLogics fabricated financial statements, coupled with checks by authorities and activist shareholders, are bringing questions on a controversial deal...
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