Taiwan’s Asian Asset Management Center initiative is gaining momentum as policymakers seek to keep more of the island’s growing private wealth onshore. But tax disadvantages, limited investment options, and talent shortages could constrain its international ambitions.
Taiwan’s 1990 banking reforms ushered in 16 new private banks, expanding access to financial services and transforming a state-dominated industry. The resulting competition drove modernization but also set the stage for decades of consolidation.
Taiwan’s booming stock market, lower barriers to entry, and the rise of ETFs are drawing a new generation of investors. But growing leverage, social-media-fueled FOMO, and gamified trading are raising concerns about the risks behind their enthusiasm.
Drawing on a career spanning global finance, biotech, and emerging energy technologies, Peter Kurz shares his views on Taiwan’s economic evolution and the choices that will shape its next chapter.
Taiwan’s revised financial regulations signal a more deliberate path toward industry consolidation, easing certain merger barriers while tightening oversight on how control is pursued. The new framework reflects a careful balancing act between scaling up competitiveness and safeguarding financial stability.
Taiwan advances towards net-zero carbon emissions with expanded green finance initiatives, boosted by growing green bonds issuance and stricter sustainability regulations.
Long forced to send money back home through an inefficient and expensive gray-market system, migrant workers in Taiwan now have access to a growing number of convenient, secure mobile app-based remittance services enabled by recent regulatory changes. For many years, Taiwan’s financial sector paid little attention to the more than 700,000 migrant workers from Indonesia,…
Mobile payments are steadily on the rise in Taiwan. Payments made using mobile phones accounted for 20% of all credit card payments in the first three quarters of 2021, an increase of 4.5 percentage points from the same period in 2020, according to data from the National Credit Card Center (NCCC). LINE Pay, the most…
Taiwan’s first two virtual banks have quickly accumulated customers, and the market is expanding with a third such bank on the way. But Taiwan’s oversaturated banking market will likely require that the digital lenders adopt new tactics and technologies to become truly competitive. Taiwan’s financial industry is known for its conservatism. Firms and regulators alike…
Taiwan’s economy has demonstrated its resilience during the past two years of the pandemic, thanks to strong demand for the island’s exports. In the long term, however, some reforms to monetary policy are needed as Taiwan faces the dual challenges of a hot housing market and an aging population. While post-pandemic inflation continues to impact…
