KB Kookmin Bank announced on May 31 that it signed a business agreement on cooperation with Indonesia’s state-run Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) on May 30.
The signing ceremony was held at the BNI headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 30 with the attendance of by Cho Nam-hoon, head of KB Kookmin Bank’s Global Business Group, and Henry Panjaitan, director of finance and international affairs at BNI, a well as other officials of the two banks.
BNI has 27,000 employees and 2,200 branches and the Seoul branch in Korea.
Under this agreement, the two banks will strengthen their mutual cooperation and discover new business opportunities.
Their areas of cooperation include support for loans and exchanges of loan information between the countries, cooperation on foreign exchanges, export and import finance, and sharing information on Korean and Indonesian export and import companies and investment companies.
“BNI expects not only to expands its role as a global bank, but to help Korea invest in Indonesia through a strategic alliance with KB Kookmin Bank, Korea’s top bank,” Director Panjaitan said. “Korea’s investment in Indonesia has been on a sharp rise these days.”
“We expect that this agreement will enable systematic and practical information exchanges on business in two countries,” said an official of KB Kookmin Bank. “We will actively cooperate with BNI while exploring opportunities for mutual growth between the two banks in the future.”
KB Tech Forum 2022
KB Kookmin Bank held the KB Tech Forum 2022 on May 20 for its tech group and platform organization to expand their communications and strengthen technical capabilities. The forum was held for the second time.
Park Ki-eun, of KB Kookmin Bank’s Tech Innovation Headquarters, gave a keynote speech under the theme of Financial Platform Re:design.
At the tech session, participants also had time to directly communicate with employees on how to redesign the banking system of KB Kookmin Bank in the future.
After that, developers made presentations on tech service value-up for a successful quantum jump, technical types and methods for a transition to cloud-based systems, and the implications of the introduction of AI financial assistance.
Ha Yoon, head of the Customer Experience Design Center of KB Kookmin Bank, took the stage in the platform session introduced for the first time this year.
Under the theme of Digital Financial Platform and UX, Ha explained how KB Kookmin Bank’s customer experiences will change down the road.
In addition, developers made presentations on topics such as boosting competitiveness through the establishment of the No. 1 corporate finance platform, the beginning of an agile change, KB MyData and KB hybrid cloud-based AI agent Callbot among others.
“This Tech Forum became an opportunity for us to secure technology-oriented expertise, rev up platform-based organizations and spread an agile corporate culture,” said Yoon Jin-soo, CEO of the Tech Group at KB Kookmin Bank.
“We are planning to hold the Tech Forum in which all affiliates of KB Financial Group will participate in the second half of this year.”
“Over 11 Million KB Mobile Certificate Users”
KB Kookmin Bank announced on June 16 that the number of subscribers of the KB mobile certificate service exceeded 11 million as of June 15.
A KB mobile certificate can be obtained without going to a branch as long as you have a mobile phone under your name. Currently, it can pass websites of 67 public institutions, including Government 24, National Secretary, National Health Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Military Manpower Administration.
Recently, the Ministry of Justice allowed the KB mobile certificate to enter its criminal justice portal. Moreover, KB mobile certificates are used in non-face-to-face channels such as apps of KB Financial Group affiliates such as KB Insurance and KB Kookmin Card.
“KB mobile certificates empower you to log in easily with a pattern, fingerprint, or face ID without a complicated password,” said an official of KB Kookmin Bank.
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