BC Card Receives Presidential Citation on 'Anti-Money Laundering Day'... First Card Company to Do So

Efforts to Improve Anti-Money Laundering Processes and Infrastructure Investment Since President Lee Dong-myeon's Inauguration

BC Card received the Presidential Award at the '14th Anti-Money Laundering Day' ceremony held by the Financial Services Commission on the morning of the 14th. Eun Sung-soo, Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (center), Lee Dong-myeon, President of BC Card (first from the left), and Kim Kyung-joo, Compliance Officer (far right), are posing for a commemorative photo. Photo by XXX

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki Ha-young] BC Card announced on the 14th that it received the Presidential Award for the first time among card companies at the '14th Anti-Money Laundering Day' ceremony held in the Financial Services Commission's main conference room at the Government Seoul Office.

Anti-Money Laundering Day, organized annually by the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Financial Services Commission, awards outstanding financial institutions and individuals who have contributed to the understanding and awareness of anti-money laundering operations. At the ceremony, President Lee Dong-myeon and Compliance Officer (Executive Director) Kim Kyung-joo attended and received the award.

Since President Lee Dong-myeon's inauguration this year, BC Card has made significant efforts in improving anti-money laundering work processes, investing in infrastructure, and education. In particular, through strengthening the continuous monitoring of suspicious transactions and advancing the operational system, BC Card achieved results such as ▲discovering new types of suspicious transactions and continuously extracting suspicious transaction rules ▲developing an integrated customer identification information management platform ▲establishing a risk assessment management system based on the Risk-Based Approach (RBA) ▲enhancing education for all employees, resulting in the certification of domestic and international anti-money laundering specialists.

Kim Kyung-joo, Compliance Officer (Executive Director) of BC Card, said, "This year, BC Card's infrastructure and capabilities for anti-money laundering have reached a new level," adding, "We will continue to upgrade the risk assessment management system to ensure that BC Card's financial services are not used for money laundering in the future."

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