{"id":854281,"date":"2026-09-20T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854281\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:46:14","slug":"internet-only-banks-small-business-lending-jumps-over-50-pct-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854281\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet-only banks&#8217; small-business lending jumps over 50 pct in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Yonhap) &#8212; Three South Korean internet-only banks&#8217; lending to small-business owners jumped more than 50 percent in the first half of the year amid tighter household lending rules, their financial data showed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> The combined balance of small-business loans at K-Bank, Kakao Bank and Toss Bank rose 50.6 percent from a year earlier to 8.32 trillion won (US$5.98 billion) at the end of June, according to their first-half financial reports.<\/p>\n<p> Faced with tighter household lending regulations, the internet-only banks have been expanding lending to small businesses to seek growth in corporate finance.<\/p>\n<p> They also plan to diversify their revenue sources into fee-based businesses such as platform services and asset management.<\/p>\n<p> The three lenders&#8217; combined loan balance stood at 83.63 trillion won at the end of June. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AEN20260920001200320_01_i_P4.jpg\" alt=\"Internet-only banks' small-business lending jumps over 50 pct in H1 - 1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>kyongae.choi@yna.co.kr<br \/>(END)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Yonhap) &#8212; Three South Korean internet-only banks&#8217; lending to small-business owners jumped more than 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":["post-854281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}