Inclusive finance crucial to achieving true productive finance, says Hana chairman

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• ·Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo said private lenders should link finance and industry, arguing productive finance works best when paired with stronger support for small businesses and underserved borrowers.
• ·Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo emphasized the importance of private financial institutions' role in facilitating connections between financial and industrial policies during a seminar on productive finance.
• ·"Private financial institutions must approach the market, not by simply providing funds but by providing a perspective that designs a new industrial ecosystem," Ham said at the forum held Thursday in central Seoul.
• ·Co-organized by the Hana Institute of Finance, the Korea Institute of Finance, and the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade, the forum was held to examine the role of finance amid the latest developments in global finance and supply chains, as well as cooperation between state and private finance.
• ·According to the Hana chairman, productive finance is truly strengthened when accompanied by inclusive finance.