Daily BriefsSouth Korea

Daily Brief South Korea: Meritz Financial Group and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Meritz Merger Event: Swap Conditions, Spread Arb Trade, & K200 Flow Implementation
  • Meritz Financial Group: Comprehensive Stock Swap + Delisting of Meritz Sec. And Meritz F&M Insurance

Meritz Merger Event: Swap Conditions, Spread Arb Trade, & K200 Flow Implementation

By Sanghyun Park

  • The last trading day to secure appraisal rights is today (the 22nd). You must buy stocks by today to make arb trade possible using appraisal rights.
  • We should consider LONG FINANCIAL SHORT FIRE/SECURITIES. KSD allows us to maintain borrowed stocks of the target company without redemption procedures if new stocks are listed after the merger.
  • K200 trackers will have to buy in for FIRE at the close on January 27, whereas SECURITIES will be on March 31. We should design a setup targeting this preemptively.

Meritz Financial Group: Comprehensive Stock Swap + Delisting of Meritz Sec. And Meritz F&M Insurance

By Douglas Kim

  • After the market close today, Meritz Financial Group (MFG) made one of the biggest announcements in the history of the group.
  • It announced that Meritz Fire & Marine Insurance and Meritz Securities will become fully owned subsidiaries of Meritz Financial Group. Meritz F&M Insurance and Meritz Securities will also be delisted.
  • MFG is making a real positive change through the share swaps among the three companies. This will likely have the biggest positive impact will be on MFG. 

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