Woori Bank Builds Financial Sector's First AI-Based Internal Control and Safety Management System

Woori Bank announced on the 12th that it has built the financial sector's first "AI-based Internal Control and Safety Management System" and will begin phasing it in across all branches starting in March 2026.

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Woori Bank held a demonstration session at its headquarters on the 5th, with Bank President Chung Jinwan in attendance, where it shared the system's key functions and application cases and inspected its performance in an actual operating environment. The core of the new system is to centralize IP CCTV and combine it with AI video analytics technology so that the head office can monitor CCTV footage from branches in real time.

By using AI video analysis, the bank has implemented internal control functions such as: detecting abnormal signs during critical transactions including large cash withdrawals and account transfers; automatically extracting and storing cash counting results based on CCTV footage; and monitoring whether the "two-person rule" is observed when entering vaults and machine rooms. Woori Bank expects this to establish a 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year continuous monitoring system for all branches, thereby enhancing the prevention of financial accidents while reducing the self-inspection burden on branches.

AI has also been applied in the field of safety management. At night and on holidays, smart fire detectors are linked with CCTV to detect fires at an early stage, and during business hours, name-tag-type emergency bells (wearable emergency call devices) enable immediate response to crisis situations. Woori Bank explained that, through AI-based moving-object detection, the system recognizes intruders and abnormal situations such as flooding, and that it has established a response system connected with the control center and security companies, which is expected to improve the speed of incident response.

Han Saeryong, Deputy President and Head of the Work Support Group at Woori Bank, said, "The AI-based Internal Control and Safety Management System is a core infrastructure that simultaneously strengthens the prevention of financial accidents and rapid response," adding, "We will continue to advance our internal control and safety management systems to create a financial environment in which customers can feel secure."

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