Interbank transfer fees have remained the same for over 40 years. A reduction in interbank EFT fees may be implemented as soon as October.
March 6, 2021Nomura Research Institute’s Ryoji Kashiwagi discusses competition concerns raised by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, and their implications for the country’s payments landscape.
August 12, 2020Singapore's competition regulator has concerns about whether Refinitiv’s widely used WM/Reuters FX benchmarks would be offered to rival providers at fair and reasonable terms.
July 7, 2020Korea's Fair Trade Commission has revised bank transaction law to allow the use of biometrics for identification in bank teller transactions.
July 6, 2020Japan's antitrust agency is looking into how banks decide fees for using the national interbank funds transfer system and whether they present an entry barrier for fintechs.
December 9, 2019According to the FSC, messenger app operator Kakao has met the qualification criteria for owning a 34% stake in Kakao Bank, one of Korea's two internet-only banks.
July 25, 2019The penalty amounts allocated to the consumer compensation fund represent less than 3 US dollars for each of the estimated 147 million consumers who had their data stolen in 2017.
July 24, 2019KT Corporation was planning to up its stake in the internet-only bank to 34%, but the FSC put its review process on hold amid an FTC antitrust probe.
April 25, 2019South Korea's FSC is pushing to expand its oversight of conglomerates to include those that own other types of financial businesses besides banks.
March 7, 2019South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has fined JP Morgan, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and StanChart a combined $613,000 for rigging forex derivative prices.
January 22, 2019