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Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. provides a range of financial products and services to corporations, institutional investors, governments, and individuals in Korea and internationally. The company offers retail banking services, which include mortgage and home equity lending and retail lending; demand, savings, and fixed deposit-taking; checking account services, and electronic banking and ATM services; and bill paying services, payroll and check-cashing services, currency exchange, and wire fund transfer services. It also provides corporate banking services that include corporate lending, treasury, and securities investment services. In addition, the company offers investment banking services comprising merger and acquisition advisory services, bond issuances, underwriting, capital increase, asset-backed securitizations, issuance of convertible bonds and bonds with warrants, structured financing, and issuance of asset-backed commercial papers, as well as project financings involving infrastructure, real estate, and shipbuilding. Further, it engages in trading of securities and derivatives, investment portfolio management, and other banking activities; and provides trust account management, credit card, securities brokerage, and life insurance services, as well as asset management services. Additionally, the company provides leasing and equipment financing, investment trust management, regional banking, and loan collection and credit reporting services. As of December 31, 2012, it operated a network of 949 branches, 333 cash dispensers, and 7,423 ATMs in Korea. The company also operates a network of 65 offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, the People's Republic of China, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and Singapore. Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.