The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) yesterday announced it has approved requests by three local financial holding institutions to expand their overseas businesses, reflecting the government’s encouragement of the “Asian League” charge.
Cathay Life Insurance Co (國泰人壽), the life insurance arm of Cathay Financial Holding Co (國泰金控), now has the go-ahead to acquire a 30 percent stake in Philippine lender Rizal Commercial Banking Corp for NT$17.1 billion (US$542.82 million).
Cathay United Bank Co (國泰世華銀行), Cathay Financial’s banking arm, already has an office in the Philippines.
CTBC Life Insurance Co Ltd’s (中國信託人壽) application to buy a 19.99 percent stake in its Chinese peer, ABC Life Insurance Co Ltd (農銀人壽), was also approved, as was Fubon Life Insurance’s (富邦人壽) plan to set up a subsidiary in Hong Kong — its fourth overseas base.
CTBC Life, a subsidiary of CTBC Financial Holding Co (中信金控), may invest a total of NT$8.5 billion in the acquisition of ABC Life, with the deal expected to be completed in the first half of the year, the statement said.
Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador. He credits Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s decision to bank on bitcoin three years ago with changing his life. “Before I was unemployed... And now I have my own business,” said the 39-year-old businessman, who uses an app to charge for rides in bitcoin and now runs his own car rental company. Three years ago the leader of the Central American nation took a huge gamble when he put bitcoin
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