S Korean lender faces liquidation
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The creditors of South Korea's top credit card issuer say it will be declared bankrupt if LG Group fails to sign up for a $1.1bn  rescue plan by Wednesday.
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U.S. buyout fund Lone Star is close to terminating its $7.3 billion deal to sell Korea Exchange Bank  to Kookmin Bank , as a prosecutor investigation made the sale nearly impossible, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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Korean LCD-maker suffers huge decline in earnings.
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Global credit squeeze undermining private sector sale of mortgage lender
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Korea First Bank, South Koreaâs eighth-largest lender, said it would make an announcement on Friday regarding a stake sale, with global banking giant HSBC Holdings Ltd.
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South Korea said it plans to crack down on people who demand money for organizing mass-defections of North Koreans. So-called brokers - often Koreans living in China, South Korean
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SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 23 Â Lone Star Funds, the private equity firm based in Dallas, canceled an agreement to sell its controlling stake in Korea Exchange Bank to Kookmin Bank, South KoreaÂs biggest lender, citing Âpolitically motivatedÂ prosecutors who have been investigating the deal.
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A troubled company in the troubled housing sector.
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Star Gas Partners LP (SGH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (SGU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it had suspended distributions on its common partnership units and warned it may have to seek bankruptcy protection unless
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With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM Corp. unravelling, The SCO Group Inc. now says there is doubt that it will remain afloat.
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HSBC Holdings is in talks to buy Korea First Bank from controlling shareholder Newbridge Capital, a senior South Korean official says, in a deal reportedly worth up to $3.
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Bank of New Zealand has frozen all accounts held in the name of Access Brokerage, which was yesterday placed in liquidation after a client fund shortfall of around $5 million was discovered.
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HONG KONG : More problems for DBS after its accidental destruction of 83 safe deposit boxes in Hong Kong. The bank could now face &quot;supervisory action&quot; from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
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Prosecutors indicted a Korean bank and a Belgium-based holding company owned by Lone Star Funds, an American private equity group, on charges of stock price manipulation in connection with Lone StarÂs 2003 acquisition of the bank. Lone StarÂs vice chairman, Ellis Short, and its general counsel, Michael Thomson, already face charges of spreading false information to weaken the stock price of the Korea Exchange BankÂs credit card unit before it was bought by Lone Star. The new charges are against the bank and LSF-KEB Holdings, a paper company based in Brussels that Lone Star set up in 2003 to take over the bank, according to Chae Dong-wook, a senior prosecutor. Officials of the bank and other Lone Star officials declined to comment.
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With its cash reserves running out and its legal case against IBM Corp. unraveling, The SCO Group Inc.  says there is doubt that it will remain afloat.
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South Korea&#39;s largest credit card firm has averted liquidation following a one trillion won ($960m; Â£499m) bail-out. LG Card had been threatened with collapse because of its huge debts but the firm&#39;s creditors
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EBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it will soon launch a tender offer to buy the remaining outstanding shares of South Korea&#39;s Internet Auction Co.