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.

KakaoBank said it will shift to an \"AI native bank\" model, using AI and global expansion as twin pillars to move beyond deposit-led growth into payments, investments and pensions. It plans new app sections for investments and payments and will roll out new card products in the second half. It will combine app-based data with a finance-focused large language model and expand conversational interfaces. KakaoBank also formalised plans to enter Mongolia and is reviewing issuance and distribution of a won-based stablecoin, subject to legal and regulatory changes.