E.Sun Financial Holding Co (玉山金控) yesterday said it closed last year with record-high earnings and outlined an ambitious expansion blueprint for this year, with deeper integration of its new businesses intended to reinforce growth across its banking, securities and asset management franchises.
At its earnings briefing in Taipei, the conglomerate struck a confident tone as strategy chief Charles Tan (譚宏) made his debut appearance, outlining a post-acquisition road map following the addition of asset management and life insurance operations.
The Taipei-based financial group recorded net income of NT$34.29 billion (US$1.09 billion) last year, up 31.2 percent from 2024, and total revenue of NT$91.77 billion. Earnings per share were NT$2.12.
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Tan, who joined the group in November last year, said total assets are set to surpass NT$6 trillion, meaning E.Sun is among the top five financial holding firms in Taiwan.
However, scale alone is not the endgame, he said.
“E.Sun is not pursuing asset expansion for its own sake,” he said. “Our priority is to convert scale into long-term, sustainable value through integration, efficiency and a superior customer experience.”
The company is repositioning itself as an integrated financial services platform spanning banking, securities, asset management and insurance — a shift aimed at diversifying revenue streams and deepening client relationships, he said.
E.Sun is serving more than 8 million retail banking customers and more than 1 million securities clients, while the life insurance arm adds more than 2.5 million policyholders, significantly expanding the group’s addressable customer base, Tan said.
Executives plan to integrate customer and product data across subsidiaries to build a more comprehensive financial ecosystem, he said, adding that the goal is to move from a product-centric approach to needs-based services by better understanding clients’ financial profiles, risk appetites and behavioral patterns.
Distribution capacity would also expand materially, he said.
The addition of about 8,000 life insurance agents is expected to complement bank branches and securities channels, enhancing offline reach and reinforcing customer engagement across subsidiaries, he said.
On the product side, the newly added asset management and insurance businesses are designed to fill gaps in long-term asset allocation and protection planning, enabling E.Sun to evolve from a product provider into a platform capable of supporting clients’ long-term wealth management needs, Tan said.
Technology would underpin the transformation as E.Sun intends to extend artificial intelligence applications across subsidiaries, deploying them in areas such as risk monitoring, personalized marketing, advisory services and process automation to enhance operational efficiency and regulatory responsiveness, he added.
E.Sun chairman Joseph Huang (黃男州) said the group is targeting 10 percent growth in credit card spending this year and aims to lift combined annual transaction volume from credit cards, debit cards and mobile payments to more than NT$1 trillion within three years, underscoring its push to deepen customer engagement and fee-based income.
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