Shinhan Card secures W31b funding from Kazakhstan's Aster
Shinhan Card announced Thursday that its Kazakhstan unit, Shinhan Finance, secured about 31 billion won ($24 million) from Aster, a leading automobile dealer in the Central Asian country, for a new joint venture, becoming the first Korean card company to win investment from an overseas entity. The two companies agreed to set up a joint venture worth 62 billion won to seek synergy in Kazakhstan’s burgeoning micr...