JB Financial Group to Build Customized AI Platforms for Affiliates in Partnership with Bespin Global

JB Financial Group is full-scale accelerating its group-wide AI Transformation (AX) in cooperation with Bespin Global. Centered around the holding company, the plan is to establish the AX direction and common standards for the entire group and build AI platforms tailored to the business characteristics of each affiliate.

Creating a User-Centered AI Environment Reflecting the Business Characteristics of Each Affiliate

Following this cooperation, JB Financial Group will apply specialized functions based on a common AI platform to the business environments of major affiliates, such as Jeonbuk Bank, Kwangju Bank, and JB Woori Capital. The core is to standardize AI technology, platforms, and operating methods at the group level while designing them to individually reflect the system environments and practical requirements held by each affiliate.

In particular, the focus is on building a user-centered AX environment where field users can easily utilize the 'AI Agent' required for their work without having to directly handle complex AI technology. This is interpreted as a strategy to increase the productivity of the entire organization by raising practical business utility rather than just the introduction of technology itself.

Adopting a Hybrid AI Strategy to Capture Both Security and Speed

To meet the strict security regulations and data control requirements of the financial sector, a 'Hybrid AX' model has been adopted. By operating the AI platform and agents in an on-premise environment within the affiliates, data security is ensured, while simultaneously building an environment to rapidly experiment with the latest Large Language Models (LLM) and AI technologies by utilizing the external public cloud-based 'Playground'.

This dual approach is a measure to simultaneously secure the speed of innovation to quickly verify and apply rapidly changing latest AI technologies while maintaining the stability unique to the financial industry.

Han Sun-ho, Vice President and CAIO (Chief AI Officer) of Bespin Global, explained, "The success or failure of AX in the financial sector does not lie in building an AI platform, but in how quickly AI can solve field problems and how those results can be spread throughout the entire organization." He continued, "Together with JB Financial Group, we will simultaneously implement group-wide standardization and affiliate-specific specialization, and by combining the platform, professional squads, and Bespin Global's diverse AX experience, we will create a new execution model for AX in the financial sector."