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Naver Corp., South Korea’s top online portal, is interested in buying Jeju Bank, named for and based on the country's largest island, to secur...

South Korean households and companies have taken out fresh loans worth 208 trillion won ($189 billion) from banks last year, pushing the outstanding...

South Korea's mobile-only bank has wrapped up its $920.5 million rights offering, placing the enterprise value at around 9.3 trillion won ($8.6 ...

Chief executives of banks operating in South Korea have picked the emergence of big technology companies and fintech startups in the credit market a...

Two leading South Korean banks – Shinhan and Hana – have provided a combined 47 million pounds ($63 million) in senior loans to finance ...

Hong Kong-based Anchor Equity Partners has agreed to invest 250 billion won ($226 million) to buy new shares in South Korea’s KakaoBank, shortly...

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank has issued $500 million in subordinated bonds as part of its efforts to expand loans for environmental, social and go...

Shinhan Bank Vietnam Ltd., the Vietnamese subsidiary of Shinhan Bank, is close to becoming the top foreign bank in Vietnam thanks to its solid perform...

TPG will acquire a 2.7% stake in South Korea’s mobile banking app KakaoBank for 250 billion won ($222 million) ahead of an initial public offeri...

The Bank of Korea has left its policy rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5% as was widely expected, citing a slow economic recovery amid the ongoing ...

KakaoBank Corp., the mobile banking arm of South Korea’s online messaging app operator Kakao Corp., is planning an initial public offering next ...

Shinhan Bank has raised A$400 million ($285 million) in five-year bonds denominated in the Australian dollar to fund lending to pandemic-hit companies...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) has issued euro-currency bonds worth $500 million at a negative interest rate, the bank said on Sept. 15, less...

Bond issuance by South Korean banks has risen to a record high as banks move to secure adequate capital to ride out any short-term liquidity disruptio...

The average capital adequacy ratio of South Korean banks declined in the April-June period for the third consecutive quarter, weighed by rising corpor...

The Bank of Korea revised down its 2020 growth forecast for the South Korean economy to a negative 1.3% from the previous 0.2% contraction on August 2...

Kookmin Bank has increased its stake in Bank Bukopin to become the largest shareholder in the medium-sized Indonesian lender, as it works to boost its...

The South Korean economy is expected to shrink at a steeper rate than the expected 0.2% this year, and the Bank of Korea (BOK) will sharply revise dow...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) left the benchmark rate unchanged at a record low of 0.5% as expected on July 16, citing the slowing economy and the overheate...

The Carlyle Group has raised $600 million for an infrastructure credit fund in South Korea jointly with two domestic financial services firms to lend ...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) has nearly doubled the size of its planned new bond sale in Australia to A$700 million ($460 million) on stron...

Expanding to India was a no-brainer decision for Lee Cheol-won."It took just five minutes to make the call," said Lee, CEO of Balance Hero, a financia...

The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and two Chinese banks have extended a syndicated loan of $120 million to fund a stake purchase in a liquefied natur...

Kookmin Bank, South Korea’s biggest lender, has committed $20 million to two aviation funds to provide junior and mezzanine loans for Airbus and Boein...

Three big South Korean lenders have lent a $85 million club loan to ALAFCO, a Kuwait-based aircraft leasing company, which recently raised $115 millio...

South Korea’s state-run lender KDB Bank and NH Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have underwritten a $15 million subordinated debt each to partiall...

Three South Korean lenders – KDB Bank, Woori Bank and Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) - have recently provided a combined $130 million in direct loan...

Deutsche Bank has resold $60 million in senior secured debt of Transtelco Inc., a fiber optic services provider in the US and Mexico, to MG Korean Fed...

KEB Hana Bank, a leading South Korean lender, has arranged $300 million lease financing for an aircraft portfolio of Avolon, in the first financing ar...

Sung-soo Eun, the chief executive of Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), was nominated as head of the Export-Import Bank of Korea, about one and a...