Hanwha Life Insurance, Hanwha General Insurance, Hanwha Investment & Securities, and Hanwha Asset Management, the Hanwha financial affiliates (hereafter Hanwha Financial), said on the 22nd that they participated in the 2026 World Economic Forum (WEF, Davos Forum) held in Davos, Switzerland, through the 23rd (local time).
Kim Dong-Won, president and chief global officer (CGO) of Hanwha Life Insurance, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Liberty City Ventures (LCV) at the Davos Forum and agreed to cooperate on joint investments in global Fintech corporations and the expansion of the digital finance ecosystem. LCV is a global venture capital firm based in New York that has invested in web3 and Fintech, with more than $2 billion in assets under management (AUM).
Hanwha Investment & Securities signed a memorandum of understanding with Xangle and said it would promote the provision of investment information and the expansion of its global business through cooperation on Blockchain-based digital asset data and research. Xangle is a digital asset information infrastructure corporation that provides prices, disclosures, research, and on-chain data based on a Blockchain-based data infrastructure and a global research network.
Hanwha Financial held a special talk at the Hanwha office lounge at the Davos Forum and discussed the changes that financial innovation will bring and key execution tasks, in line with the forum's theme, "A Spirit of Dialogue."
Emil Woods, co-founder of LCV, Murtaza Akbar, managing partner, and Kim Jun-woo, co-CEO of Xangle, joined the talk as panelists. Kim Dong-Won, president of Hanwha Life Insurance, along with officials from each company and global leaders in digital finance, also attended.