Korea faced the attack of foreign capitals while suffering from the foreign exchange crisis in 1997. Nevertheless, our financial system facing the attack of foreign capitals is still much underdeveloped than advanced nations'. Banks concentrate their ...
Korea faced the attack of foreign capitals while suffering from the foreign exchange crisis in 1997. Nevertheless, our financial system facing the attack of foreign capitals is still much underdeveloped than advanced nations'. Banks concentrate their efforts on the small-scale retail financing services such as mortgages with less risk, while insurance companies with poor capital find it difficult to convert themselves into global investment banks. As such perceptions spread, the government enacted 'Law on Capital Market and Financial Investment Business' designed to foster the financial industry as a new engine of growth for our economy growing over 20 thousand dollar per capita GDP and thereby, plans to implement the law beginning from February, 2009. The law is expected to restructure the triangular relations among banks, insurance and financial investment companies and facilitate restructuring of the secondary financial sector centered about large-scale insurance companies, while activating development of such new financial commodities as complex and derivative commodities in the financial markets, promoting qualitative and quantitative growth of IB market and facilitating transfer toward buyers' financial markets. In addition, our banking industry faces other various problems such as distorted capital structure with the managerial environment reinforced centering around shareholders, outflow of the financial profits, and the like. In order to check such problems successfully, it is urgent to amend the relevant laws to protect our domestic financial markets. The examples of defensive legal measures are differentiated voting rights of stocks, golden stocks, poison pill, etc. On the other hand, the capital market integration law is expected to have more negative effects on our banking industry than positive ones. First, the trust business may be shrunk due to integrated businesses. Second, the permit for payment settlement services may dispell the LCF funds and reduce the opportunities for cross sales. Third, permit for handling of foreign exchanges may result in reduction of non-interest revenues. Fourth, introduction of the sales recommendation system would lead to more fierce competition among channels, reduction of non-interest revenues and diminished fund sales over bank counters. Fifth, reinforcement of investors' protection control may increase the cost of incomplete sales prevention and the fund-raising cost due to the additional cost for the public announcement of marketable security issues. Accordingly, in order to minimize the unfavorable waves of capital market integration law, it is necessary to construct a systematic customer CRM and commodity development process, promote development of complex accounts and commodities and enhance such human resources as PB