[아시아에이=김호성 기자] Last year, among commercial private banks, KB Kookmin Bank was found to be the bank with the highest level of interest in social contribution (amount of information = number of posts).
Data & Research, a polling agency, conducted a survey of 230,000 websites across 12 channels, including news, community, blog, YouTube, and Instagram, between January and December last year and calculated the number of social contribution posts by nine private commercial banks. , including Internet banks.
Special banks such as NH Nonghyup Bank, IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, Sh Suhyup Bank, KDB Industrial Bank, and Export-Import Bank of Korea were not counted in order to collect only the amount of voluntary private social contribution information during the survey, and two foreign banks were included.
As a result of the analysis, the amount of social contribution information of KB Kookmin Bank last year was the highest, namely 15,754.
Last year, it was announced that KB Kookmin Bank decided to extend the preferential interest rate for the financially disadvantaged while lowering the interest rate on deposit loans by up to 0.75 percentage points to ease the interest burden of financial users during the period of rising interest rates. .
In addition, although the MPC continues to raise the base rate, the fact that KB Kookmin Bank reversed a number of interest rates drew attention.
Shinhan Bank followed with 13,386 cases.
In December last year, articles were posted one after another that Shinhan Bank waived early redemption fees for customers with low credit ratings of 30% at the bottom of the credit rating from January this year.
Shinhan Bank has been implementing various interest rate cutting measures for vulnerable people since last July.
Woori Bank came third with 10,205 cases.
In December last year, it was reported that Woori Group’s Multicultural Scholarship Foundation, which Woori Bank also contributed, supports learning furniture for children and teenagers from multicultural and vulnerable groups.
Hana Bank was fourth with 7,805 cases.
The Hana Financial Group continues to operate a donation system In connection with last year’s ‘Hana Motoring Day Campaign 2022’ event, all branch units are proceeding as part of the ‘Hana Regional Happiness Sharing Activity’ to support the disadvantaged in the local community and spread a win-win culture.
Kakao Bank showed the highest interest in social contribution among internet banks with 3,955 cases.
K Bank 1857 cases, Toss Bank 1144 cases, Citibank Korea 842 cases, and SC First Bank 446 cases appeared in order, showing that the two foreign banks show the lowest level of interest in social contribution.
A research official said, “In the second half of last year, all four commercial banks were found to be actively implementing interest reductions and interest rate cuts for the digitally vulnerable class suffering from interest rates high.”
