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Oversight of South Korea's banks and securities markets by regulators like the Financial Services Commission, covering trading and data security.
South Korea's FSC says 16 financial firms, among them four banks and the Gopax operator Streami, exposed about 100,000 customer-data items. Inspections widen first at large firms, and the release leaves open whether crypto businesses are covered.
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South Korean regulators have confirmed breaches at 16 financial companies from one hacking campaign and estimate about 100,000 items of personal data leaked. They plan to make every firm list its externally connected systems and to spell out how chief executives are held accountable for security.
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South Korea will move the Financial Services Commission and its Financial Intelligence Unit, 420 staff in all, to Sejong in the second half of 2027. Critics say distance will slow crisis response, but the evidence so far is one October meeting and a survey of another agency.
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Shinhan Financial's board took up information security five times between March 2025 and May 2026, according to minutes Seoul Economic Daily reviewed. Analysts quoted by the paper say the effectiveness of those security systems needs examining.
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South Korea proposes letting stocks, bonds and funds trade under its tokenized securities framework from 2027, with annual retail OTC purchase limits. How hard those limits bite depends on whether buyers trade tokenized assets or only hold them.
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South Korea's Supreme Court upheld HSBC Hong Kong's acquittal on 15.8 billion won of alleged naked short sales, the country's first such criminal case. Its holding that an unexecuted sell order is not the offence gives the next prosecution a stricter test to meet.
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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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South Korea's financial regulator gave lenders until Thursday to check every internet-facing system after hackers breached at least seven banks. Attackers entered through tools built for loan recruiters and staff, so the repair falls on how much credit data banks let outsiders see.
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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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FSC chairman Lee Eok-won told Korean financial firms they will be held strictly accountable under law if the hacks that hit six lenders happen again. The threat covers future breaches, so for the firms already hit the cost so far is five requests, including security checks and customer compensation.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission will block outside access to staff and loan-broker web pages by default after leaks at six firms. Every page a firm keeps reachable now has to be justified as indispensable to services or work.
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Korea's community credit cooperative federation blocked access from the IP address behind the Shinhan Bank leak as attacks reached a fourth financial sector. The main way in so far has been services built for loan brokers and employees, set apart from the systems that process transactions.
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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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South Korea's Financial Services Commission proposed rules on October 1 letting stocks, bonds and funds trade as tokens from February 4, 2027. Comments close November 11, while bills from both main parties would push the January 1 crypto income tax back as far as 2030.
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An FSS official says emails went out repeatedly to debtors whose loans NICE was collecting for other financial companies. The ceiling under review allows seven contacts in seven days for each debt.
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Hanwha's tokenized securities platform runs on Avalanche now, while the Korean law that makes ledger records a securities register starts on February 4, 2027, and starts with private placements rather than listed stock.
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