Toss Securities CEO Kim Gyu-bin was reappointed... “Ethics and compliance will be placed before growth.”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yu-hyang = Toss Securities announced on the 8th that CEO Kim Gyu-bin's reappointment has been decided.

According to the financial investment industry on this day, Toss Securities held a board meeting and reappointed CEO Kim as an executive director and CEO.

This is the first time that the CEO of Toss Securities has been reappointed. CEO Kim's term of office is two years until October 2028, and he will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors.

Previously, the Executive Candidate Recommendation Committee recommended CEO Kim as a candidate for CEO on August 31.

CEO Kim was born in 1989 and graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.

After founding the mobile gift service 'Nanojo' in 2012, he held positions such as 'Product Owner' in charge of product planning for eBay Korea and Toss (Viva Republica), and 'Head of Product' in charge of products at Toss Securities, and was appointed CEO in October 2024.

Toss Securities, which is entering CEO Kim's second term, plans to strengthen ethics and compliance management appropriate for growth.

It is reported that on the 15th, an ethics and compliance management declaration ceremony will be held with CEO Kim and other management and employees participating, and all executives and employees will take an ethics compliance pledge.

Operation of an internal control reinforcement task force, expansion of internal control training for executives and employees, and strengthening of inspections before service launch are also promoted.

CEO Kim said, “We take it seriously that no growth can be sustained without customer trust,” and added, “We will put ethics and compliance ahead of growth and innovation, and prove it through practice one by one.”

Meanwhile, Toss Securities achieved its highest performance in the first half of this year with sales of KRW 845.8 billion, operating profit of KRW 319.5 billion, and net profit of KRW 236.8 billion. Last July, the cumulative number of subscribers exceeded 10 million.