KB Financial Group shareholders passed a motion to appoint Yang Jong-hee as the new group chair, Friday, with an overwhelming 97.52 percent approval rate.
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Korean stocks surged Monday on the expectation that investors will start to cover their short positions after the country’s financial authorities banned short selling. The main Kospi bourse climbed 5.66 percent, or 134.03 points, from the previous trading day to close at 2,502.37. The secondary Kosdaq jumped 7.34 percent, or 57.4 points, to close at 839.45. Earlier in the day, the buying pressure prompted sidec.
Debates about the complete prohibition of short selling are intensifying in Korea, especially in light of recent illicit short-selling activities by global investment banks (IB), which have angered individual investors. Even the financial authorities, which continuously supported the full resumption of short selling, have now shifted their stance to reviewing the regulation from the ground up.
The Financial Services Commission announced on Tuesday that it will ease regulations on credit lending limits for overseas subsidiaries of financial holding companies starting from Jan. 1, 2024. The regulation revision comes after the FSC pledged in July to help local financial companies beef up their presence in overseas markets. Under the current regulation, the credit lending limit for each subsidiary must not exc.