When is a foreign bank not a foreign bank? Answer: When it establishes a domestic subsidiary. Between 2007 and 2013, five leading international banks – Standard Chartered, Citi, HSBC, DBS, and ANZ – received approval from the financial authorities to expand their presence in Taiwan’s retail banking market by taking over the operations of local…
New York regulators’ fining of Mega Bank last year for lax compliance practices was a wake-up call. In a victory for the nation’s regulators, Taiwan in July was removed from a regional list of countries judged to have insufficient money-laundering controls. Taiwan had spent months revising legislation and pushing its financial institutions to crack down…
Healthy capital markets are vital to the functioning of an economy, generating both short-term economic output and long-term growth. As industry leaders look toward Taiwan’s financial future, they should strive to develop fair, open and efficient capital markets to sharpen Taiwan’s global competitive edge. In the recently published 2017 Taiwan White Paper, the Capital Markets…
