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.

Hana Financial Research Institute said on Saturday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade to promote productive finance. The two organisations plan to combine industrial policy and financial research capabilities to build a basis for efficiently supplying capital to industries in need. They will pursue joint research and cooperate on education programmes and forums.