Chief executives Kim Mi-seop and Heo Seon-ho of Mirae Asset Securities declared in a New Year's address on the 2nd that they will "make 2026 the first year of Mirae Asset 3.0 and lead a transition to a new financial order that goes beyond traditional finance to include digital asset."
The two chiefs set the direction for the new financial order as follows: ▲ integration of traditional asset and digital asset ▲ expanded investment in innovative growth corporations ▲ advancement of a sustainable revenue structure ▲ strengthened protection of financial consumers and customer information.
First, the two chiefs unveiled a plan to lead a paradigm shift in the global financial industry in which traditional asset and digital asset are integrated. The two said, "We will build, step by step, the infrastructure and systems that underpin the digital asset business ecosystem, and organically link the global MTS and digital asset transaction platform being pursued at overseas subsidiaries to expand the financial ecosystem."
They added, "We will manage customers' global asset and tokenized digital asset more efficiently and support the execution of various asset allocation strategies," and "through advancing artificial intelligence (AI), we will precisely support customers' investment decision-making and strengthen data-driven analytical capabilities to provide a differentiated customer experience."
In line with this strategy, Mirae Asset Group is currently in talks on a plan to acquire equity in Korbit held by NXC, the largest shareholder of the virtual asset exchange Korbit (60.5%), and SK Planet, the second-largest shareholder (31.5%).
It also plans to expand investment in innovative growth corporations and strengthen its role as a global investment firm. The two said, "Based on IB and PI capabilities, we will provide financial solutions across all stages of corporate growth and expand productive finance and venture capital supply to innovative corporations and growth industries by utilizing various fundraising methods." They especially emphasized discovering and supporting key innovation areas that determine national competitiveness, such as AI, semiconductors, and Robotics.
They also announced plans to build a sustainable revenue structure centered on proven businesses such as wealth management (WM) and the pension institutional sector. The two said, "In the WM and pension institutional sector, we will make improving customer outcomes the top priority, continuously strengthen asset management capabilities using AI, and advance specialized management systems for ultra-high-net-worth individuals to cement differentiated competitiveness." They added, "In the trading, IB, and PI areas, we will continuously enhance profit-and-loss stability through sophistication across management, review, and risk management."
Lastly, they emphasized customer-centric management. The two said, "We will make protection of financial consumers the top value of management and strengthen, company-wide, a consumer protection system focused on preemptive prevention across the entire process from product design to sales and after-sales management." They also said, "We will further advance information protection governance and strengthen AI-based anomaly detection and real-time monitoring systems to build an environment that can most safely protect customers' asset and data."