Banking Sector Checkup

This article was written by Leanne Kao and published by The Taiwan Review on July 1, 2003.

Over the past decade, Taiwan's banks have been struggling with some of the problems that plagued their counterparts in Japan and Korea. However, thanks to a series of reforms initiated over the past few years, today's Taiwan is hoping to right its banking sector before it wilts any further. Investors and the analysts who advise them are keeping a close watch on the government's efforts to reform the sector.