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Finance
Financial groups\' M&A race heats up again as insurers are bought in succession
Mergers and acquisitions of insurers by South Korea’s financial groups are picking up again, with Korea Investment Financial Holdings securing preferred bidder status for KDB Life and OK Financial Group proceeding with steps to buy Yebyeol General Insurance. Kyobo Life is pursuing AXA General Insurance, while Shinhan Financial Group is again being mentioned as a possible buyer for Lotte Insurance, which is preparing for sale. Groups are seeking either new entry into insurance or reinforcement of weaker segments.
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.