South Korea's top financial regulator, setting policy and rules for banking, securities, and crypto markets and overseeing financial institutions.
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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Korea's Kospi closed down 7.57% at 5,554.22 on October 15, tripping its circuit breaker, as SK Hynix lost 11.35% and Samsung Electronics 9.70%. Both fell harder than the index.
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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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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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Korea's Financial Services Commission has budgeted 300 billion won for a 1 million won loan at 4.5% open to the bottom half of credit rankings. The predecessor loan is more than 40% delinquent, and its lender does not track repeat borrowing.
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IMF officials said privacy risks in central bank digital money can be managed through regulation and design, as protest banners went up at the Bank of Korea. Their comments give the central bank an outside voice to cite while it keeps building Project Hangang.
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President Lee Jae Myung says AI appears to have been used in hacks on South Korean banks that leaked data on at least 25,000 Shinhan customers. If his claim that AI removes the need for specialized skills holds up, banks should plan for many more attackers.
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Korea Exchange has deferred further delistings under its tougher market-cap rule, but trading stays suspended in eight companies it had already decided to delist. Their holders cannot sell, and the exchange's plan to challenge the ruling behind the pause leaves no date for trading to resume.
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Korean opposition lawmaker Park Sung-hoon blamed single-stock leveraged ETFs for 54 trillion won of losses at parliament's audit of the financial regulator. The ruling Democrats called the launch unavoidable, and the hearing as reported produced a fight over who decided it with no proposal to tighten the rules.
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CrowdStrike tied AI-assisted South Korean bank attacks, run on an open-source pentest tool and DeepSeek, to a possible 26-year-old suspect in Guangdong. The reported breaches involved systems banks run for brokers and staff, so the exposure to manage sits at the bank's edge, whoever the attacker proves to be.
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South Korea's FSC paused a plan to open bank network-separation exemptions to 75 firms after ARTEX-assisted hacks breached seven financial firms. The pause holds back at most 15 exemptions while regulators work out whether the attacker got in through the rule they were loosening or around it.
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Korea's finance ministry proposed licensing crypto moves between Korean exchanges and overseas providers or private wallets, with a two-person staffing floor. Registration is cheap, so the cost to operators lies in filing transfer records for state investigators.
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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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Securitize shares rose nearly 8% to about $12.60 after it agreed with LG CNS to build tokenized funds and stablecoins for Korean institutions. Each planned product still needs regulatory sign-off under a law that takes effect Feb. 4, 2027.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission is due on the 7th to name about 15 more financial firms exempt from network separation rules, after a first round of 10. Network separation rules are what stop lenders running AI security tools, so the list decides who can use AI against AI-driven hacking.
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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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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 cut October Treasury bond issuance by 5 trillion won and plans 3.5 trillion won of buybacks as US 10-year yields hit their highest since 2002. Both steps manage supply, so the level of won yields still depends on what US Treasuries do next.
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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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