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Financial regulators to tighten protection of PG settlement funds, cancel licenses or registrations after repeated suspensions

South Korea\'s financial authorities will strengthen protection for settlement funds held by payment gateway (PG) firms and tighten soundness rules to prevent a repeat of the TMON and WeMakePrice non-settlement incident. PG firms will be required to have settlement funds managed externally through bank deposits, trusts or payment guarantee insurance, with the external management ratio rising to 100 percent from the third year. Capital requirements and disclosure rules for large operators will be raised, and repeated business suspensions within five years could lead to license or registration cancellation.