MaiCoin cofounder Alex Liu reflects on crypto’s shift in Taiwan from skepticism to practical integration, where regulation, trust, and user experience shape its next phase. As the industry matures, the focus turns to building resilient systems that can withstand volatility and geopolitical uncertainty.
Stablecoins are gaining momentum in global finance, but Taiwan is proceeding carefully. Regulators are studying how fiat-backed digital currencies could fit within the island’s tightly supervised financial system.
AI agents may soon initiate transactions on behalf of users, but the final payment step still requires trusted infrastructure. OEN Technology is building systems to power that last mile of AI commerce.
Stablecoins could bring faster, lower-cost cross-border payments to Taiwan’s trade-driven economy. But before locally issued tokens can launch, regulators must resolve key questions about oversight, financial stability, and the evolving role of banks in a digital-asset era.
Despite Taiwan’s reputation as a global tech hub, international neobanks and fintech platforms continue to face steep regulatory and bureaucratic barriers that block meaningful market entry. As startups like INSTO struggle to stay afloat, experts say outdated mindsets, not technology, are holding the sector back.
With a global career spanning fintech, trade, and banking, Carl Wegner brings deep regional insight and leadership to his new role as AmCham Taiwan’s President. Fluent in Mandarin and no stranger to Taiwan, he shares his vision for the Chamber’s future in a candid conversation.
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…
A weekly snapshot of Taiwan business news stories brought to you by CommonWealth and AmCham Taiwan’s TOPICS New measures seek to combat China’s talent poaching China has been targeting Taiwanese semiconductor talent in an effort to fuel its domestic chipmaking capabilities. In response, the Executive Yuan in April formed a task force to establish measures…
