South Korea\'s Financial Supervisory Service will revamp procedures for financial investment advertisements to curb false and exaggerated claims as competition intensifies for products such as exchange-traded funds. The overhaul covers ad production, screening and post-management at securities firms. New listings of ETFs and high-risk products posted on firms\' own YouTube channels are expected to be added to the Korea Financial Investment Association\'s review scope. The regulator and the association plan to complete rule revisions by mid-October and implement them in January 2027.

Hanwha Investment & Securities is accelerating its digital asset push after declaring in October last year it would become a specialist digital asset brokerage. It plans to expand investment and collaboration with digital asset firms while preparing for regulation by pursuing domestic token securities and overseas real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation. DA Platform team head Byung-chul Lee outlined building a platform linking product discovery, issuance and subscription, and wallet and custody, starting with issuance and underwriting.