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ING BARINGS DROPS PLAN FOR MORE INVESTMENT IN KOOKMIN BANK.

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SEOUL, July 1 Asia Pulse - Dutch financial group ING Barings has reportedly shelved its plan to make an additional capital investment in Kookmin Bank (KSE:23130), South Korea's largest commercial bank.

Banking sources said Tuesday ING Barings' move is due to a recent government decision not to give commercial banks the exclusive right to sell the products of a single insurance company.

Announcing the revised decree on the insurance law, the Ministry of Finance and Economy banned financial institutions with assets of 2 trillion won (US$1.68 billion) or more from selling more than 50 percent of products offered by a single insurer.

The ministry rewrote the decree to allow "bancassurance," namely the sale of insurance products at commercial banks.

The sources said ING Barings had planned to acquire an ...

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