FinTech in Taiwan: Regulatory Efforts and The Need For Speed

... industry and the related industry to apply innovative technology for enhancing financial accessibility, practicability, and quality, on May 4, 2017, Taiwan’s Executive Yuan proposed the bill called “Financial Technology Innovation Experimentation ... ( read original story ...)

HTC U11 Life will be the first Android One smartphone

A large swathe of HTC’s phone expertise may have been snapped up by Google, but the Taiwanese electronics firm isn’t done ... These specs point towards an solid mid-range Android smartphone, but the more interesting side of the U11 Life is that it ... ( read original story ...)

Sharp Taiwan invests in local retail chain

Sharp (Taiwan) Electronics has revealed it will acquire a 66% stake in Aurora Telecom retail chain for NT$546.89 million (US$18.1 million) to strengthen marketing of its consumer electronics and home-use electric appliances in the Taiwan market. ( read original story ...)

Modest test of driverless bus may hint at big things to come

commissioner of Taipei's Department of Information Technology. "The rest of the world isn't going to stop and wait for you just because you're sputtering along," he said. Martin Ting, the general manager of 7StarLake, the Taiwanese company testing the ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan banks awash with cash

Taipei, Oct. 3 (CNA) The Financial Supervisory Commission said Tuesday that Taiwan's banks are awash with cash, with a combined record high of more than NT$10 trillion (US$328.46 billion). The deposit balance is at NT$36.82 trillion, whereas total loan ... ( read original story ...)

Showcasing the best of Taiwan

To encourage cultural exchanges and potential business trade between Taiwan and the Philippines, a delegation of more than 170 exhibitors and vendors from Taiwan presented over 4,500 products and services to the attendees at the Taiwan Expo 2017 held at ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s digital imperative

In their report, they assess the current digitization level of three of the most important sectors of Taiwan’s economy – high tech, finance, and the public sector – and they outline some of the strategies that both government and business need to ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan’s manufacturing sector in longest period of expansion

Taiwan's purchasing managers index (PMI ... according to the think tank. The sub-indexes for business activity/production, new orders, employment and supplier deliveries fell 3.9, 1.3, 0.3 and 1.0, respectively, from a month earlier to 53.1, 54.6, 53.1 ... ( read original story ...)