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Crypto
Tether files trademark applications for name and logo in South Korea
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, has filed multiple trademark applications in South Korea, including for its corporate brand and gold-linked stablecoin Tether Gold (XAUT). The move comes as discussions advance on tightening stablecoin rules, including possible requirements for foreign issuers to set up local branches. Rival Circle has also stepped up outreach in Korea and expanded platform partnerships. The domestic market is seen as large, though the regulatory framework is still unsettled.
AI & Enterprise
Finance service developers test Amazon AI coding tool Kiro to fix outages
Amazon Web Services on April 10 held an AI-focused hackathon for finance industry participants, AWS GameDay 2026 for financial companies. KakaoBank’s Kiki404 team won for a second straight year. The competition used scenario-based missions in a sandbox environment, including application outage recovery and modernising legacy Java code. Participants used Amazon Q Developer and Kiro. A total of 96 people from 24 financial firms took part.
AI & Enterprise
For now, cloud AI is the answer even for finance as AI advances fast
No Kyung-hoon (노경훈), head of financial business at Amazon Web Services Korea, said there are no technical or regulatory problems with using cloud in finance and that AI will accelerate cloud adoption. He said building AI infrastructure in internal data centres can become a burden as AI changes quickly and new technology may be hard to use on existing systems. He cited a survey of about 150 firms showing around 60 percent use or plan cloud because of AI.
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Telecommunications & Media
KT affiliates speed up executive shuffles ahead of Park Yoon-young era
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Telecommunications & Media
KT to showcase AI innovation technology blending K-culture in Barcelona at MWC26
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Finance
Gowid partners with Naver Pay to offer easy corporate card payments and payback
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Telecommunications & Media
KT to unveil AI and infrastructure innovation blueprint at MWC26
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Finance
K Bank to list on KOSPI in March to expand from SMEs to digital assets
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Finance
K Bank passes preliminary review for KOSPI listing
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Finance
Will Kbank IPO succeed this time? CEO term extension emerges as variable
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Finance
Stablecoin payments stir in South Korea as finance sector pushes AI-led transformation
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Crypto
BC Card partners with Coinbase to bring USDC payments to South Korea