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Anthropic to roll out latest AI models on AWS Seoul region, step up push into South Korean finance

Anthropic plans to soon introduce its latest large language models, including Sonnet 5 and Opus 5, on Amazon Web Services' Seoul region and accelerate its push into South Korea's enterprise market. The company is also working with AWS to expand adoption in the domestic financial sector. Anthropic Korea head Choi Ki-young said local availability would better meet data sovereignty requirements, broaden use cases for regulated industries and ease concerns about data leaving the country during inference.

Finance

Investor deposits fall below 100 trillion won as margin loans top 33 trillion

Cash waiting on the stock market in the form of investor deposits fell below 100 trillion won in about two weeks, while margin loan balances climbed back into the 33 trillion won range. The Korea Financial Investment Association said investor deposits stood at 98.9 trillion won as of Aug. 26, down 3.6 trillion won from the previous session. Credit trading balances rose, and short-term unsettled trades also increased.

AI & Enterprise

Tech Insight: Beyond search, building AI that acts will be an advantage rivals cannot copy

Lee Kyung-jong (이경종), head of KB Kookmin Bank and KB Financial Group’s Financial AI2 Center, said AI competitiveness comes from trusted data that agents can act on, not from models. He said most corporate AI still functions as search, requiring staff to verify and enter results. KB is building an environment for “acting AI” by reshaping data around meaning and using an on-demand connection structure on Snowflake, while expanding agent development across front-, mid- and back-office work.