Korea is allowing robo advisers to operate funds, provided they are managed in line with disclosed objectives and have security breach prevention measures in place.
April 18, 2019KRX is seeking new powers that will allow it to intervene to cancel stock trading orders made in error to better guarantee market stability and protect investors.
January 25, 2019The Korea Financial Investment Association will examine internal operations at securities firms in a bid to prevent order-handling accidents and restore market confidence.
October 29, 2018The measures, though not yet finalised, follow recent concerns about stock trading systems at financial institutions in South Korea.
October 18, 2018New legislative revisions could subject illegal short sellers to up to 10 years imprisonment and fines amounting to 1.5 times profits on short selling.
October 15, 2018Investors will be allowed to buy a maximum of 1% of a company's total shares starting 17 September, a rule aimed at preventing error trades.
September 14, 2018Korean brokerages don’t have adequate internal systems that could prevent fat-finger errors like those that affected Samsung Securities in April.
August 9, 2018A result of April's dividend payout error, Samsung Securities has been barred from accepting new clients for six months and order to suspend its chief executive, who has instead resigned.
July 29, 2018KRX will launch punitive action for breach of short selling norms by Goldman Sachs and boost its monitoring of improper short selling.
July 19, 2018