The partners are broadening cooperation from deposit-withdrawal account services toward deeper capital and technology integration, including unified account management, remittances and settlement.
Hana Financial Group and Dunamu are widening their partnership beyond existing banking links into a broader digital-finance buildout spanning won-denominated stablecoins, security tokens and real-world asset tokenization. Odaily reported the groups are moving past KRW deposit-withdrawal account services toward deeper capital and technology integration, with plans to design a digital-finance architecture that would connect bank deposits, securities and virtual-asset accounts. The expansion adds detail to an already growing alliance that followed Hana Bank’s May decision to buy about 1 trillion won ($720 million) of Dunamu shares, giving the bank a 6.6% holding in the Upbit operator. The companies have also been reviewing integrated financial services that would let users manage assets across banks, brokerages and crypto platforms in a single portfolio. The latest cooperation plans also include expanding remittance and settlement services, alongside earlier discussions covering Hana Financial’s anti-money laundering systems, internal controls, foreign-exchange capabilities and global payments network with Dunamu’s blockchain technology and digital-asset user base. The tie-up points to a longer-term push to merge conventional finance infrastructure with tokenized-asset and blockchain-based services in South Korea.