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Meritz Securities is a South Korean brokerage and investment bank that provides equity research, trading, and asset management services.
Meritz Securities and the Canton Foundation signed an MoU on Oct. 15 to explore tokenized Korean debt, collateral and cross-border liquidity. The release describes exploratory work with no completed transaction, and how far it goes depends on Korea's regulators.
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Ripple has signed Meritz Securities to explore custody and tokenization, its fourth Korean partner of 2026 and the first securities firm. The work starts inside Meritz's existing permissions and has no launch date.
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Koscom has signed memorandums with 13 securities firms on a shared tokenization platform ahead of Korea's Feb. 4, 2027 rules. Four brokers named in the same report are working through their own builds or outside partners, so the case for shared infrastructure is unproven.
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Hong Kong was the second-largest foreign net buyer of Korean stocks through August at 6.45 trillion won, per FSS estimates. Hana Securities' omnibus accounts are one route into that total, and the report does not size their share.
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Samsung Electronics estimated third-quarter operating profit at a record 107.4 trillion won, up 782.5% from a year earlier. Its operating margin went from about 14% to roughly 55% over the year, and buyers of AI hardware are paying for that gain while memory supply trails demand.
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Samsung Electronics plans up to 110 trillion won in shareholder returns this year after quarterly operating profit topped 100 trillion won for the first time. Most of that sum is still a range, and its final size depends on a memory business that earned nearly all of the quarter's profit.
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Meritz Securities signed a Ripple custody study on Oct. 1 while weighing five digital-asset lines, spot crypto ETFs among them. With no product or launch date attached, any payoff waits on what Korea's coming rules let brokers sell.
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Yuanta Securities Korea raised its Samsung Electronics target 18.9% to 630,000 won, about 124% above the 281,500 won quote, on an argument that HBM is eating into general-purpose DRAM capacity and pushing the end of the supply squeeze further out.
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Hyundai has ruled out a 2027 listing for Boston Dynamics, whose 528.4 billion won loss last year was about a third of its five-year total, and Meritz Securities now expects a debut in 2029 or 2030.
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Seven-month exports reached $414.36 million, but a hydrogel line costs roughly $360,000 and needs 20 to 30 trained workers. Yield per line, not demand, is the variable worth underwriting.
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The company told investors that engine order inflow has already passed what its plant can handle. The expansion is a bet that generation capacity, not compute, is the scarce asset.
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Thirteen of twenty forecasters surveyed by Seoul Economic Daily see a quarter-point on the 27th. The dissenters are arguing about the month, not the direction.
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Korea's index opened up 2.15% and closed down 1.55% because the U.S. 30-year hit a 19-year high. Nvidia's Ohio residual-value guarantee is the same trade in different clothing.
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Ten firms booked 10.26 trillion won of first-half net profit and hired accordingly. The same rate cycle that funds the trading desks is repricing household debt.
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iM Securities took its JYP target down 25% to 60,000 won on TWICE renewals and Stray Kids enlistments. The shares closed at 41,050 won, well below the 70,000-won range they traded at early in the year.
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