In the beginning stage of economic development in Taiwan, the market was lack of funding and the capital market is immature. The majority of financial institutions are public banks. With the development of financial liberalization, Taiwan government lifted the restrictions on establishing private commercial banks on 1991. Following that, public banks face challenges of the fierce competition with private banks, comply with policy of the authorities to authorize special policy loans or generally take over insolvent banks. The public banks were under such severe challenges and the under performing problems were expected to be solved only by privatization. Consequently, following the Act Governing the Conversion of State Owned Enterprises into Private Enterprises entered into effect in 1992, the Privatization of public banks in Taiwan began.
Since the Asia finance turmoil occurred, the operation of financial institution significantly deteriorates. The overall Non-Performing Loan Ratio is high due to low financial institution loan quality. In addition, Taiwan banks face a severe problem that whether the current overall domestic financial market is too small for all the current financial institutions? Is the operation scale of Taiwan banks competitive internationally? Presuming the current operation scale of Taiwan banks is weak among international competition, what are the development alternatives for Taiwan banks? The research scope of this study is based on the current general operations, merger cases, and the development strategies applied in the second stage financial reform of Taiwan banks. In the case study, the merger case targeted is the most successful merger in the second stage financial reform, where the financial product development is improved by the merger synergy. In addition, the policy goals to reduce the number of government-owned banks by half and facilitate introduction of foreign funding are realized, which contributes to Taiwan economic development.
This study first introduces the overall development of public banks, followed by case studies of operating performance and financial data on Taiwan Cooperative Bank and the Farmers Bank of China. This study is conducted through the operating performance analysis on two targeted banks and overall banks. The analysis includes return on assets, return on equity, earning per share. Also the analysis includes the comparison analysis of market competition status with financial holding companies, which is critical reference to evaluate the development potential when the Taiwan Cooperative Banks establishes a financial holding company in the future. The analysis further includes combined market analysis, and SWOT analysis to compare the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of these two public banks.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0816109-120533 |
| Date | 16 August 2009 |
| Creators | Wu, Yu-hsin |
| Contributors | Ching-ming Chang, Jia-his Weng, Shan-non Chin |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0816109-120533 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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