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South Korean fintech, operated by Viva Republica, behind the Toss super app for payments, banking, brokerage and loans, with tens of millions of users.
Naver Pay, Kakao Pay and Toss will begin alerting 1.76 million users to 25.5 billion won in long-dormant prepaid balances, financial regulators said. The sum averages about 14,500 won per notification, so the immediate cost to the operators looks small.
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Honest AI pitched a sale of itself to Toss in July and October, Seoul Economic Daily reported, before and after signing a statement aimed at Toss's P2P entry. Honest AI denies it. If the report holds, it was offering Toss the affiliate-run lender that the statement calls a conflict.
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Gwangju Bank and Toss have completed a trial letting customers pay merchants in stablecoins by scanning a QR code, Yonhap reported. Lawmakers review digital-asset legislation in November, and the Korean bank and fintech stablecoin work on record so far consists of tests and study agreements.
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Forbes puts the 18-month-old training-data startup at $3.2bn against the $300m it carried five months ago. Most of that move is multiple rather than growth, and the round has not yet closed or named a lead.
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At least six overseas blockchains signed payment and tokenization deals with Korean banks, brokerages and asset managers in the 93 days to Sept. 23. Many are still memorandums or pilots, and Shinhan Asset Management alone works with three of the networks, so Korean buyers are keeping their options open.
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Kakao Pay and KakaoBank signed a non-binding memorandum with Fireblocks for stablecoin infrastructure, the second such agreement Kakao has signed since July, while KB Financial and Toss have already run won-stablecoin pilots.
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