Hana Financial Group is accelerating efforts to expand what it calls productive finance focused on future growth industries such as AI, bio and infrastructure. The group held the second Hana One-IB Market Forum to share insights on industrial shifts and promising sectors and to review cooperation among affiliates. Sessions covered Middle East geopolitical risks, market conditions in core sectors and One-IB collaboration cases. Hana Financial raised this year’s supply plan to 17.8 trillion won.

Foreign integrated account services that allow overseas retail investors to trade Korean stocks through local brokerage apps are expanding. Samsung Securities has launched a service with Interactive Brokers, while Hana Securities and Meritz Securities are widening partnerships in Asia and preparing a launch with Webull. Authorities have eased related rules, including scrapping the foreign investor registration system. Markets expect the change to raise accessibility over time rather than immediately shift flows.