Finance and Banking

• General Introduction
  • Taiwan's Finance and Banking (Updated 2005)
  • Public Finance (Updated 2005)
  • Money and Banking (Updated 2005)
  • Financial Reforms (Updated 2005)
  • Financial Restructuring (Updated 2005)

• Year 2006
  • OBUs permitted to take deposits from Mainland Chinese (September 29)
  • Taiwanese banks find greener pastures abroad than at home (September 6)
  • Over half of bank earnings came from abroad in 2005 (May 11)
  • Two government-linked banks slated to merge in May (March 24)
  • Draft legal revision offers criteria for insider trading (March 17)
  • Taiwanese banks favor Vietnam, Hong Kong & China for overseas operations (March 15)

• Year 2005
  • Law beefs up securities, corporate governance rules sector (December 30)
  • Merger mania sweeps Taiwan as state-run banks consolidate (December 2)
  • Government plan to consolidate financial sector runs into trouble (September 30)
  • Taiwan venture capital industry struggles to make a comeback (August 5)
  • Mergers seen as key to banking sector's success in Taiwan (June 29)

• Year 2003
  • Banking sector checkup (July 1)