NH NongHyup Financial Group plans to build a groupwide comprehensive financial support system for strategic industries in North Jeolla province. In line with the government\'s \"5 poles, 3 special zones\" balanced growth policy, it selected North Jeolla as its second theme region after the southeast. The group plans to launch an \"NH Finance Hub\" in the third quarter alongside opening an NH-Amundi Asset Management office in Jeonju to support agrifood, physical AI and renewable energy industries.

South Korea\'s Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Financial Training Institute on Thursday signed an agreement with the Korea Federation of Banks and eight financial holding companies to foster financial consumer protection specialists and strengthen capabilities. The parties will expand consumer protection training for financial company employees and work to raise awareness across the sector. New and revamped courses will target executives, prospective chief consumer officers, department heads, practitioners and branch sales staff, with stronger training on mis-selling prevention and voice phishing response.