Efforts to link stablecoins with established card networks are picking up pace, with Visa’s annualised stablecoin settlement volume at $4.5 billion and growing monthly. Korean internet banks are active around overseas remittances. Analysts expect the four biggest financial holding groups to post a combined 18.33 trillion won in annual net profit, up 12 percent. Financial firms also announced AI transformation programmes, fintech partnerships, listings and governance reforms, alongside legal changes for tokenised securities.

Toss Bank said on Thursday it has fully introduced and internalised Helpdesk, an integrated customer support platform it developed in-house. The platform builds an environment that allows agents to handle all tasks from a single screen. It is designed to provide faster and more accurate responses to diverse and complex customer inquiries within a unified system. The bank said it implemented a super-app style tool to replace fragmented external solutions used for different support functions.