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JKL Partners recently ended sale negotiations for Lotte Insurance with Shinhan Financial Group, prompting a shift to public bidding procedures. The transition follows a breakdown in private negotiations, with JKL Partners and lead advisor Samjong KPMG now preparing for a public sale announcement

Meta Platforms Inc. reached a settlement Wednesday in a federal trial over social media's impact on teenagers, agreeing to pay up to $18 billion to 48 state attorneys general. The trial focused on concerns about Meta's platforms' effects on underage users. Morningstar

Individual investors net purchased approximately 1.9 trillion won in KOSDAQ stocks in August, marking a reversal after selling over 10 trillion won from early year through late July, according to Korea Exchange (KRX) data released on August 27. The shift follows government measures announced in late

Korean retail investors purchased leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds during the recent week ending on the 25th, according to Korea Securities Depository data. The purchases occurred as Bitcoin consolidated around $80,000 after recovering to that level for the first time in over

Oracle Corp. (ORCL) stocks rose nearly 2% in premarket trading on Thursday following an optimistic note from Citi released on Wednesday. Citi added an upside 90-day catalyst watch on Oracle while maintaining a Buy rating with a $330 price target, implying upside of more than double the stock's

Homeplus will hold a creditors' meeting on September 2 at 3 PM to vote on its second amended rehabilitation plan, two days before the court-imposed deadline of September 4. The meeting represents the final opportunity for the South Korean retailer to secure approval before the maximum 1.5-year

South Korea's Mirae Asset Financial Group plans to build a 150 trillion won ($109 billion) digital asset business centered on Digital X, according to The Korea Times. Founder and chairman Park Hyeon-joo outlined the ambition at an employee event in Seoul on Wednesday titled 'A New Voyage Begins,

Democratic Party member Ahn Do-geol's office held a forum on the 27th where experts argued South Korea's Future Response Fund should have clearly limited usage purposes. The fund is financed by surplus tax revenue from the semiconductor boom, which experts characterized as temporary and volatile. Pa

Bitcoin staged a recovery following August 19's largest single-day short liquidation event since 2019, according to Glassnode data. The squeeze eliminated approximately 85% of short positions and consumed 86% of modeled liquidation clusters, while futures open interest declined 11% in coin terms and

Core Lightning, an open-source implementation of Bitcoin's Lightning Network, confirmed multiple vulnerabilities on Thursday and instructed node operators to install a forthcoming security update. The confirmation followed assessment of a high volume of AI-generated Common Vulnerabilities and

Korean financial authorities' regulatory intervention caused trading volume in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix single-stock leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds to plummet 94% within one month. According to Korea Exchange data as of the 26th, the 16 single-stock leveraged and inverse ETF

Mirae Asset's TIGER Semiconductor ETF, tracking the KRX Semiconductor Index with 1.33 trillion won in assets under management, deviated from its benchmark index composition by underweighting SK Hynix and overweighting Samsung Electronics, as confirmed on the 25th and 26th. The asset manager

Korean retail investors showed contradictory behavior on the 26th as investor deposit funds fell to 98.9176 trillion won — the first time below 100 trillion won since the 12th — while credit balance climbed back above 33 trillion won to 33.1023 trillion won for the first time since the 28th of

Bitcoin traded at $78,763 as of 4pm local time on the 27th, with analysts noting the recent rally maintained stable market liquidity unlike previous surges. The 7-day gain moderated to 14% from 23% the previous day, while Ethereum's gain narrowed to 11% from 29%, according to CoinGecko data.

South Korea's Ministry of Planning and Budget announced on the 27th that the newly established Future Response Fund is designed to serve as both a fiscal stabilization mechanism and a mid-to-long-term growth driver. Park Seong-hun, head of the Future Response Fund Promotion Team at the Ministry, sta

Chairman French Hill introduced H.R. 3633 on May 29, 2025, to establish a comprehensive market-structure framework for digital assets and allocate regulatory responsibilities between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The bill aims to provide