Vice Chairman Kim Byung-cheol of Hanyang Securities evaluated at a recent town hall meeting for employees, held annually, that "the entire organization has entered a stable track after the change of the largest shareholder," and presented a vision to "leap forward as a mid-to-large securities firm with more than 1 trillion won in equity capital."
According to Hanyang Securities, in Jun. last year KCGI acquired 29.59% equity held by Hanyang Academy, and the Financial Services Commission approved the deal, completing the change of the largest shareholder. Afterward, Hanyang Securities appointed Vice Chairman Kim as the new CEO.
Kim said, "In particular, we are reorganizing our business structure through selection and concentration in key business areas, including real estate project financing (PF) and investment banking (IB), and focusing on strengthening mid-to-long-term competitiveness," while praising the performance of each business unit.
According to Hanyang Securities, the real estate project financing (PF) division is stabilizing its business structure through the cleanup of nonperforming assets and organizational restructuring, while the bonds and trading divisions are maintaining a stable operating stance even in a highly volatile market environment. The IB division is also said to have refined its portfolio around strengths in the ECM and DCM areas, while expanding its growth base through new areas such as global IB.
Hanyang Securities also presented structural improvements in the retail division and the strengthening of digital competitiveness as key tasks. It will reorganize its offline-centered retail business model to focus on online and wealth management (WM) and will gradually push ahead with system upgrades for selling financial products such as RPs, funds, and bonds.
In addition, Kim explained, "We are sequentially entering new businesses such as exchange-traded fund (ETF) liquidity provision (LP) and stock lending brokerage, expanding our business portfolio," and "We are also pursuing authorization to enter the over-the-counter derivatives dealing business as part of securing new growth drivers."
Hanyang Securities presented a vision to build a profit structure that can stably maintain an annual return on equity (ROE) of 10% or more (after tax) over the mid-to-long term and, based on that, to leap forward as a prepared mid-to-large securities firm with more than 1 trillion won in equity capital. Kim said, "To that end, we plan to advance internal controls and system upgrades in parallel with enhancing risk management capabilities."
This town hall meeting, held via YouTube Live, was prepared to review business performance in the second half of 2025 and to explain plans for 2026.