A seminar in Seoul discussed strategies to integrate digital capital markets with green digital finance as the spread of digital assets accelerates changes across capital-market issuance, distribution, payments and custody. The event, co-hosted by the Korea Fintech Industry Association and Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Environmental Finance, examined domestic policy tasks and directions for Asian cooperation. Speakers addressed token securities, stablecoins, carbon-credit digitisation and blockchain-based infrastructure.

Kim Jong-hyun (김종현), CEO of Kookon, was elected the sixth chairman of the Korea Fintech Industry Association, as the industry focuses on unresolved tasks including regulatory risk. Financial authorities are tightening requirements across prepaid limits, the introduction of a MyPayments business, stronger payment risk management for e-finance operators and financial soundness checks for lower-tier PG firms. The industry says the key issue is how rules are applied, and Kim has proposed legal status for the association and shared compliance infrastructure.