Shinhan Financial Group CEO meets Digital Asset leadership in Seoul on Canton strategy
CantonNews (September 29, 2026): Shinhan Financial Group Chairman and CEO Jin Ok-dong met Digital Asset Co-Founder and CEO Yuval Rooz and Canton Foundation President Viv Diwakar at Shinhan headquarters in Seoul to deepen group-wide Canton collaboration across tokenized finance, digital-asset infrastructure, and cross-border market connectivity ahead of Korea's 2027 token-securities framework. Talks covered linking Shinhan Bank payments and settlement with Shinhan Securities distribution and Shinhan Asset Management RWA tokenization, plus technology verification aligned with the approaching STO regime. Shinhan signed a Canton Foundation MOU in June, joined Digital Asset's $365 million round through Shinhan Securities and Shinhan Venture Investment in July, and saw Shinhan Asset Management approved as Korea's first financial-group Super Validator this month. Jin Ok-dong said tokenization is becoming global financial infrastructure and Shinhan will expand ties to digital-asset rails as regulation allows.