South Korea's Hana Financial Group announced on Friday that its net profit for the first nine months of this year reached a record high of 3.62 trillion Korean won (approximately $2.73 billion). During the same period, the group's share buybacks and cancellations amounted to nearly 1 trillion Korean won, marking its largest-ever shareholder return. The group's consolidated net profit for the third quarter was 1.22 trillion Korean won, a 2.4% increase quarter-on-quarter and a 7.8% increase year-on-year, representing its highest quarterly profit since the merger with Korea Exchange Bank.