Shinhan Financial Group and Visa have decided to join hands to cooperate in the area of data utilization and global business.According to the financial giant Sunday, Shihan Financial and Visa agreed to form strategic partnership on data and global business, as the two groups leaders - Shinhan Financial Group Cho Yong-byoung and Visa Chairman and CEO Alfred Kelly Jr. - met in mid-October at the headquarters of Visa in San Francisco, U.S., to sign the partnership deal. With the partnership, Shinhan Financial plans to utilize Visa s global data in developing its new products and services.