Hana Financial Group posted a first-half net profit of 2.4029 trillion won, up 4.4 percent from a year earlier, helped by higher fee income and a more diversified earnings mix. It absorbed one-off costs including provisions tied to corporate rehabilitation and foreign-exchange translation losses. Core profit rose 13 percent to 6.2956 trillion won, with fee income up 37.7 percent. Hana Bank net profit rose 1.7 percent.

State Street has launched a money market fund for stablecoin issuers to manage reserve assets. The product is designed to align with the U.S. GENIUS Act and uses a government money market fund structure under Rule 2a-7, investing in assets such as U.S. Treasuries and repurchase agreements. State Street Bank and federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital joined as initial investors. Financial firms are speeding product development as the stablecoin market expands.