South Korea
Asia comes of age
Dealers are increasingly offering exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to retail investors to give them access to asset classes and instruments traditionally not available to them. At the same time, regional exchanges are trying to bolster their ETF business. Is…
Regulatory backlash
Editor's letter
A sense of déjà vu
Letter to the editor
Sell suits
A number of lawsuits have emerged across the globe, with disgruntled corporates alleging they were sold unsuitable derivatives products and were unaware of the risks involved. Will changes to bank selling practices emerge as a result? By Christopher…
KO-ed in Korea
Derivatives litigation has reached a new level in South Korea, where early court rulings on corporate currency options positions went against financial institutions and threatened the legal enforceability of derivatives contracts in the country. A change…
Swap stabilisers
Editor's letter
Simply Samsung
Samsung Securities
New governor overhauls South Korea's financial watchdog
Daily news headlines
A new feel for foreign funds
South Korea
Stocking up abroad
South Korea
South Korea’s National Pension Service partners with Credit Suisse on risk management
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) today signed a three-year partnership agreement with Credit Suisse that will cover a range of services including asset management, risk management, governance, technology transfer and training.
South Korean minister warns on economy
Korean honcho sees possible pitfalls in exchange rate, housing market
South Korea on target for Basel II
The South Korean Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) will begin screening banks’ Basel II programmes from June.
KRX trading systems to merge
The Seoul-based Korea Exchange (KRX) will integrate its futures and options trading systems from June this year, the Korean Financial Supervisory Commission said.
Through the fence
South Korea
A balancing act
South Korea investor survey
A one-way market
South Korea
Korean consumer default likely to affect Asian securitisation, says S&P
The deteriorating credit quality of South Korea’s securitised credit card portfolios has not only meant Korean asset-backed securities issuance has ground almost to a halt this year, but that it is likely to negatively affect consumer finance…
Moody’s KMV releases RiskCalc for Korean private firms
Moody’s KMV has released RiskCalc Korea, a web-based model for estimating the probability of default or expected default frequencies (EDF) on obligations of non-financial Korean private companies.
South Korean CDS spreads tighten after earlier panic protection buying
The cost of protection on South Korean sovereign US dollar credit dropped from this week’s higher levels as market sentiment improved, but dealers said that the market is still nervous and there could be more volatility in the credit default swaps market.