Major fintech firms posted strong first-half results as growth in payments and financial services lifted revenue and profit, with overseas payments and new businesses also expanding. Payment companies are widening links into daily life through merchants, local currencies and transport, while firms bundle payments with other services. As businesses grow, demands for soundness management rise. Separately, there are signs of partial adjustments to loan regulations, while bank lending volume controls continue.

Travel Wallet, which is seeking a Kosdaq listing in 2027, must further bolster equity as its prepaid balances have risen rapidly. South Korea\'s financial authorities required the company to increase capital and improve profitability through changes to its business structure. Travel Wallet said it can meet the management improvement standards within the deadline and that there is no change to its existing IPO schedule. The company has not disclosed its current equity or the amount of capital it needs to raise.