{"id":679564,"date":"2026-11-02T04:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/bank-of-korea-probes-financial-firms-exposure-to-crypto-risks\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T04:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:52:42","slug":"bank-of-korea-probes-financial-firms-exposure-to-crypto-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/bank-of-korea-probes-financial-firms-exposure-to-crypto-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Korea probes financial firms\u2019 exposure to crypto risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The central bank is surveying 31 financial institutions on how a major exchange shutdown, prolonged crypto downturn or losses at another firm could affect their operations.<\/p>\n

The Bank of Korea has reportedly asked banks and brokerages about cryptocurrency-related risks, asking how they would be affected by a major exchange hack, a market crash or heavy losses at another financial institution.<\/p>\n

The central bank began surveying 18 banks and 13 brokerages on Oct. 23 as part of its first reported review of financial institutions\u2019 participation in the virtual asset market, according to The Herald Business<\/a> and Yonhap<\/a>, citing financial industry sources.<\/p>\n

The survey includes questions about each institution\u2019s crypto-related staffing and budgets, business activities and reasons for entering the market, along with amounts invested in domestic and overseas crypto companies. <\/p>\n

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The central bank is surveying 31 financial institutions on how a major exchange shutdown, prolonged crypto downturn or losses at another firm could affect their operations. The Bank of Korea has reportedly asked banks and brokerages about cryptocurrency-related risks, asking how they would be affected by a major exchange hack, a market crash or heavy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":679565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-679564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}