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South Korea's second-round National Participation Growth Fund raised over 200 billion won on its first day of sales on the 30th, surpassing one-third of the 600 billion won fundraising target, according to the Financial Services Commission. The slower pace compared to the first round in May —

UBS topped Q3 financial advisory rankings with KRW 10.8491 trillion in deal value, driven by large-scale carve-out transactions led by major Korean conglomerates. The foreign investment bank advised on

Korean listed companies filed 115 delisting injunction lawsuits over the five-year period from 2022 through September 2026, according to data submitted by National Assembly member Shin Dong-wook's office to the Korea Exchange. The surge in litigation—from 14 cases in 2022 to 47 cases in

Hanwha Life Insurance's board approved on the 30th the acquisition of a 50.54% stake in Acuon Capital from global private equity firm EQT Partners for 440 billion won, alongside a capital injection into affiliate Hanwha Investment & Securities. The dual investment aims to secure lending finance

JR Global REIT announced on the 30th a debt repayment plan to fully repay bond principal and interest by the end of June 2030. The plan accelerates the repayment timeline by 1 year and 6 months compared to the previous proposal. The repayment plan was prepared based on an audit report by Samil

Micron Technology, Inc. (MU) shares rose 0.6% in early premarket trading on Wednesday ahead of the memory chipmaker's closely watched fiscal fourth-quarter results due after the market close. Wall Street expects Micron's revenue

Korean listed REITs are experiencing financial health deterioration as borrowing costs rose from 4.0% in the second half of 2025 to 4.7% in the first half of the current year, according to NICE Credit Rating senior researcher Lee Eun-mi at a September 30 e-seminar. The deterioration stems from REITs

South Korea's Financial Services Commission announced on September 30 that banks' credit exposure related to real estate project financing (PF) will be capped at 20% of total credit exposure. The regulation aims to prevent excessive concentration of real estate PF risks in specific financial

Standard Chartered initiated coverage of stablecoin issuer Ethena (ENA) on Sept. 30, setting a price target of $2 by the end of 2027. The bank attributed its outlook to Ethena's position at the intersection of perpetual futures, asset tokenization, and the stablecoin market, alongside a recently int

Four major Korean banks sold 2.96 trillion won in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during the third quarter (July to September 29), a 90.8% decline from the second quarter's 32.08 trillion won, while equity-linked deposit (ELD) sales surged 38.1% to 3.46 trillion won in the same period. The shift

Mike Belshe, CEO and co-founder of BitGo, visited Seoul on the 30th to attend Korea Blockchain Week 2026 and gave an interview stating that Korea has the potential to become one of Asia's leading institutional digital asset markets. Belshe cited Korea's unique combination of highly developed

Medicox (054180) announced on the 30th that the Korea Exchange KOSDAQ Market Committee finalized a delisting decision for its shares following a deliberation. The decision came after the company failed to meet improvement requirements despite being granted an extension period until August 10. The de

Bitwise's spot exchange-traded fund tied to NEAR Protocol recorded $35.5 million in net inflows on its first day of trading on Sept. 29. The NEAR spot ETF, trading under ticker NRR on NYSE Arca, marks the first such fund Bitwise has launched in the United States. The ETF's debut comes as asset

U.S. stock futures rose early Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation metric, the PCE Price Index, alongside Q2 GDP numbers. As of 4:00 a.m. ET, Nasdaq and S&P 500 futures were up 0.2%, Dow futures rose 0.4%, and Russell 2000 futures gained 0.3%. On Tuesday, New

Intercontinental Exchange has launched a set of JKM LNG options, short-dated LNG freight futures and U.K. electricity options that allow energy firms to hedge three connected exposures within the same clearing environment. The new instruments address the commodity price, the vessel transporting it a

Hedge funds held $2 trillion in US Treasury securities by the end of 2025, representing a record 7% of the $28.9 trillion marketable Treasury market, according to data from the US Treasury's Office of Financial Research (OFR) cited by CNBC on May 29. The holdings tripled over five years as

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division announced preparation of the 'DS AI Frontier Ecosystem' to support organizational AI transformation. Han Jae-joon, Master at Samsung Electronics' AX·PI Center, stated at the Samsung AI Forum 2026 on May 30 that the company is preparing this

OpenAI launched dots, a persistent AI agent designed to work autonomously on behalf of users, at the company's DevDay 2026 developer conference. Built on the GPT-6 version of the Astra model, dots are available through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and positioned as a direct competitor to