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Finance

Korea Exchange to launch pre- and after-market trading in June, extend hours to 12

Korea Exchange will extend trading to 12 hours from June by introducing pre-market and after-market sessions. It plans to build a 24-hour trading system by December 2027, citing competition to attract global investors and improve competitiveness and international alignment. The exchange outlined measures to ease labour and industry concerns, including limiting orders in extended hours to online channels and making ETF liquidity-provider participation optional outside regular trading.

Crypto

JPMorgan: Paying interest on stablecoins without financial regulation is risky

JPMorgan Chase supports blockchain technology but says stablecoins that pay interest could threaten the traditional financial system. At a fourth-quarter earnings presentation, CFO Jeremy Barnum warned that interest-bearing stablecoins could create an unregulated parallel banking system and said the bank supports the direction of U.S. congressional stablecoin legislation. JPMorgan said stablecoins acting like deposits without financial regulation could be risky, a view aligned with U.S. banking industry concerns.

AI & Enterprise

Salesforce officially launches upgraded Slackbot to boost work automation

Salesforce has officially launched an upgraded version of its AI-based Slackbot, SiliconANGLE reported on Jan. 13. The update strengthens work automation, adding features such as corporate data analysis and summaries, integration with external applications and automated data imports. Users can upload documents and spreadsheets to extract information and create summaries. Slack CTO Parker Harris said the bot runs on Anthropic’s Claude models. Salesforce plans integration with Agentforce and highlighted added security guardrails.