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The European Banking Federation (EBF) launches its 21st Physical Security Report ‘Banks incidents against infrastructure and staff – 2012’. This year’s edition highlights a very positive decrease of 32% of bank attacks in 2012, thus confirming the downward trend since 2010. The total loss resulting from bank robberies went down by 12% in 2012. It must also be noted that 25% of bank attacks result in no loss, compared to 20% in 2011, thanks to more effective security systems, combined with staff training. This trend has been confirmed for the last 4 years.
“This figure is still too low”, commented Patrick Borschette, Head of Facility Management/Safety Security from Bank Raiffeisen Luxembourg, Chairman of the Physical Security Group of the EBF. “We must focus on...
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