2023 年 5 月 26 日

Taiwan’s FSC Announced the Review Results of the Establishment Application of Neo Insurers

Alert May 2023
Oli Wong and Lilian Hsu
2023 年 2 月 24 日

Amendments to the Act Governing Electronic Payment Institutions: Allow Attorneys Certification of Application Documents and Increase Flexibility for the Competent Authority (Taiwan)

Alert February 2023
Weke Chen
2022 年 8 月 17 日

The Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan Will Begin to Accept the Application for the Establishment of Neo Insurers in August 2022

Alert August 2022
Oli Wong and Lilian Hsu
2022 年 7 月 25 日

The Supreme Court of Taiwan Recognizes Virtual Currency with Economic Value as the “Deposits” or “Funds” Regulated by the Banking Act

Alert July 2022
Elva Chuang and Weke Chen
2022 年 7 月 25 日

Digital Human Rights and Institutional Safeguards

Alert July 2022
Jaime Cheng and Tina Lee
2022 年 4 月 14 日

Introduction to the Regulatory Framework of Electronic Payment and Third-Party Payment in Taiwan

Insight April 2022
Elva Chuang and Weke Chen
2022 年 3 月 22 日

The Taiwan FSC and JCIC Are Planning to Roll Out a Convenient Forwarding Mechanism for Personal Credit Score Data

Alert March 2022
Teresa Huang and Lilian Hsu
2021 年 12 月 1 日

Declaration Documents for the Money Laundering Prevention Decree Under Article 17, Paragraph 1 of the “Regulations Governing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing for Enterprise Handling Virtual Currency Platform and Transaction” (Taiwan)

Teresa Huang and Jack Hsieh The Financial Supervisory Commission promulgated the declaration documents along with the information and methods for the compliance with money laundering prevention regulations under Article 17, Paragraph 1 of the “Regulations Governing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing for Enterprise Handling Virtual Currency Platform and Transaction”.
2021 年 12 月 1 日

Draft Summary of “Money Laundry and Terrorist Financing Prevention for Third Party Payment Services” (Taiwan)

Sean Liu, Doris Hsu and Lilian Hsu With the increasing acceptance of contactless transactions, the position of third-party payment services in assisting cash flows is becoming more and more important. In order to complete the regulation of anti-money laundry policy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced a draft which puts third party payment services industry under regulation. This article will give an introduction on the draft.
2021 年 10 月 1 日

The Executive Yuan designates “third-party payment service industry” under the scope of money-laundering prevention (Taiwan)

Sean Liu, Jack Hsieh While Taiwan’s Money-Laundering Control Act mainly regulates financial institutions, it also applies to industries and practitioners whose business characteristics or trade patterns are prone to exploitations for money-laundering related crimes.  The Executive Yuan has announced on […]
2020 年 5 月 4 日

Focused Summary of the Taiwan Regulations on the Issuance and Trading of the Security Token and Regulatory Amendment Recommendations (Taiwan)

Teresa Huang and Elva Chuang[1] I. Focused summary of the regulations on the issuance and trading of security token offerings 1. The Financial Supervisory Commission (hereinafter, the “FSC”) of Taiwan officially incorporated security token offering (hereinafter, “STO”) into the regulatory […]
2019 年 6 月 17 日

Legal Control over Stablecoins

2019.6.17 Sean Liu There has been incessant news about Facebook’s intention to set foot in the blockchain domain and issue a stablecoin since the end of 2018.   A while ago, Facebook finally released a white paper codenamed Libra and is […]