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KEB Hana Bank most advanced in catching faked money

Collected: 2016.09.08

Distributed: 2016.09.09

Source: Go Direct

South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank proved its supremacy in the skill of catching counterfeit bills, having identified $110,800 million worth, or 89 percent of $124,900 faked foreign money discovered in Korea in the first half.

The bank picked out 102 faked notes in U.S. dollars, 73 in Chinese yuan and 2 in Japanese yen.

It had combed out $240,000 faked notes last year, or 91 percent of forged foreign currencies found at local banks.

The bank established a real-time counterfeit notes detection system that identifies forged money using scanned images in September 2012, for the first time in the industry. It hired Lee Ho-jung, who formerly worked at the National Intelligence Service to oversee the system in 2013. The bank established Counterfeit Notes Response Center -the only one of its kind run by a domestic financial institution in the country - in November 2014. It purchased advanced image analysis equipment typically used by investigation authorities and state intelligence agencies worldwide and even advanced than the equipment at local law enforcement offices.

By Chung Ji-sung

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