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Taishin International BankTaiwan, Republic of China

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Taishin International Bank's headquarters in Taipei. Photo: Lord Koxinga via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY SA 3.0)

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About
Website https://www.taishinbank.com.tw
Headquarters
No.44 Chung-Shan N. Rd., Sec.2,
Taipei
Taiwan, Republic of China
CEO/chair Tong-Liang Wu
Chairman & CEO
Supervisor
Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Ownership
listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange

Taishin International Bank is a subsidiary of Taishin Financial Holdings (TFH). TFH's shareholder structure can be accessed here.

Taishin International Bank is a commercial bank in Taiwan, which was established in 1992. The bank offers financial services through three business segments: Wholesale banking, Retail Banking and Finance and Financial Markets. The bank is active across Taiwan, and has offices in Hongkong, Vietnam, Singapore, Myanmar, Japan and Australia. In November 2019 Taishin International Bank adopted the Equator Principles.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

Taishin International Bank's parent's (Taishin Financial Holdings) most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website sections listed below.

Links

Sustainability

ESG regulations

Sustainable finance policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2022-07-12 00:00:00 | Taishin Financial Holdings

Statement on human rights

Bank policy
2018-10-04 00:00:00 | Taishin Financial Holdings

Corporate sociale responsibility best practice principles

Bank policy
2014-10-30 00:00:00 | Taishin Financial Holdings
Taishin International Bank has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Equator PrinciplesTags: Equator Principles | project finance | corporate social responsibility | sustainable development
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)Tags: corporate social responsibility | finance
United Nations Global CompactTags: United Nations | human rights
Dodgy Deals

Taishin International Bank is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of Taishin International Bank's link to these deals.

Projects / Companies
Finance type
Year
News
Resources
Documents
Links
Accountability
Grievances

Taishin International Bank does not operate a complaints or grievances channel for individuals or communities that might have been affected by the bank's finance.

Taishin International Bank is an Equator Principles signatory. While the Equator Principles have no official grievance mechanism, complaints relating to this bank's financing of Equator Principles projects can be filed through our own website www.equator-complaints.org.

This page evaluates Taishin International Bank's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

Impacts reviewed
Responded?
Total score
Response
Action
Monitoring

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Banks and Nature

Banks and Nature

Taishin International Bank’s policies for forest-risk sectors (beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber) have been assessed by the Forests & Finance coalition, achieving an overall score of 0.5 out of 10 and ranking it as a laggard. Taishin International Bank achieved a score of 0 out of 10 specifically for its policies related to the beef sector and 0.5 out of 10 for its policies related to the palm oil sector. Between 2016 and 2022, Taishin International Bank provided USD 379 million in credit to companies operating in these forest-risk sectors. For more information, see the links below. 

Forests & Finance

Banks and beef

Banks and palm oil

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Taishin International Bank
2022-09-27
TWN
0.5
Laggard 0.5
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its policies. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Beef

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Taishin International Bank
2022-10-18
TWN
0
Laggard 0
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its beef policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Palm Oil

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
Taishin International Bank
2022-10-18
TWN
0.5
Laggard 0.5
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its palm oil policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.