The US remained the largest debtor to Taiwan’s financial holding firms in the second quarter, despite a significant drop in exposure, data released on Sunday by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) showed.
Financial holding firms’ total exposure to the US reached NT$9.56 trillion (US$319.54 billion) at the end of the second quarter, a NT$792.3 billion decline from the previous quarter.
Analysts attributed the drop, the steepest quarterly decline since records began in 2015, to US tariffs and a stronger New Taiwan dollar against the US dollar.
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International exposure includes interbank loans, lending and investment activities by Taiwan’s financial holding firms.
By the end of June, total international exposure by Taiwan’s financial holding firms fell to NT$27.02 trillion — a drop of NT$2.09 trillion, or 7.2 percent, from the end of March — the sharpest quarterly decline since records began.
China remained the second-largest debtor to Taiwan’s financial holding firms, with exposure falling to NT$1.896 trillion at the end of June, down NT$149.9 billion from the previous quarter, driven by simultaneous drops in interbank loans, lending and investments, the FSC said.
After the US and China, France ranked third in exposure at NT$1.28 trillion, followed by the UK at NT$1.27 trillion, Australia at NT$1.19 trillion, Japan at NT$1.13 trillion, South Korea at NT$1.07 trillion, Hong Kong at NT$925.6 billion, Canada at NT$867.4 billion and the United Arab Emirates at NT$561.9 billion, the data showed.
Among the top 10 debtors, Japan was the only country with a quarterly increase in exposure to Taiwanese financial holding firms, rising NT$12.31 billion due to increased investment, the FSC said.
While overseas exposure declined, Taiwan’s financial holding firms increased their domestic exposure by NT$1.12 trillion to NT$47.56 trillion at the end of June, it said.
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