Monday July 27 2026

News Source: Global Exchanges

Focus: General - Global Exchanges

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Country: Korean Republic

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The Financial Services Commission (FSC) announced a plan to move up the implementation of the strengthened minimum deposit requirement for investing in single-stock leveraged products (exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded notes) on July 24th, 2026. The earlier planned implementation schedule from August this year will move up to July 31st, 2026, to quickly help to stabilize demand.

Early Implementation of Strengthened Deposit Requirements

  • Moving up implementation schedule to July 31st, 2026 – The earlier planned implementation schedule for the strengthening of the minimum deposit requirement from August this year will move up to July 31st, 2026, to quickly help to stabilize demand. Currently, retail investors are required to deposit at least KRW10 million (USD 6,800) to make new investment in single-stock leveraged products (for both domestically listed and overseas listed). However, when calculating the minimum deposit amount, 70 percent of market values of substitute securities, such as stocks, ETFs (excluding leveraged ETFs), and bonds on the investor’s account was counted toward the deposit amount along with cash. To improve upon this and to make sure that investors are making new or additional investment in single-stock leveraged products (for both domestically listed and overseas listed) while being fully aware of the risk involved and having a sufficient level of risk tolerance, the minimum deposit requirement is set to be raised to KRW30 million(USD 20,400).
  • Management of premium/discount rates and improvement for minimum trading lot – The measures to strengthen the responsibility of securities firms and asset management companies in managing the premium/discount rates of single-stock leveraged products and to streamline the process for designating items to be included in the investment watchlist will go into effect from August 19th, 2026, after making revisions to relevant rules. For the planned expansion in the size of minimum trading lot from one share per trading lot currently to 20 shares per trading lot for domestically listed single-stock leveraged products, the authorities will also consider moving up the implementation schedule to an earlier date from the initial plan for implementation in November.

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