Taiwan

Sep 29, 2026

BitstreetX added to Taiwan VASP registry, bringing total to 11

Taiwan’s Securities and Futures Bureau updated its list of registered virtual asset service providers on Sept. 29, adding Sanchuan Token Co., Ltd., which operates under the BitstreetX brand. The company completed its anti-money laundering registration on Sept. 24, lifting the total number of registered VASPs from 10 to 11. According to the regulator’s published list, BitstreetX is approved for all four business categories: virtual asset exchange, trading platform, transfer, and custody. The company is led by Lai Chia-hsien, has paid-in capital of NT$111 million, and is registered at 12F., No. 143, Fuxing North Road, Songshan District, Taipei. United Daily News reported that after joining the VASP association, the firm plans to launch all four approved business lines. The same report said the company had been listed under the previous AML compliance declaration regime, was rejected in August last year after the system shifted to registration-based review, and then passed after resubmitting its application. The current registry shows that 8 of the 11 approved VASPs hold trading platform approval. CNA reported that all currently registered VASPs must apply for a formal license within 12 months after the Virtual Asset Service Act takes effect, while the 11 firms may continue operating during the transition period.

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Taiwan

Sep 29, 2026

Taiwan plans October rollout for crypto transfer rule, with extra data required for transactions above NT$30,000

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission is preparing to roll out the first phase of its crypto transfer rule, or Travel Rule, in October 2026. The initial phase will apply to transfers between domestic virtual asset service providers (VASPs) in Taiwan. Under the plan, exchanges must transmit sender and recipient information regardless of transfer size. For single transfers above NT$30,000, individual users will need to provide two additional pieces of information: date of birth and residential address. Corporate entities will need to provide an official identifier and registered address. The rule is based on Financial Action Task Force standards and is meant to extend bank-style sender and recipient identification requirements to virtual asset transfers, where blockchain records typically show wallet addresses but not the identities behind them. Taiwan-based firms including KryptoGO and XREX have outlined how user checks and platform-side verification may work once the rule takes effect. Transfers to overseas exchanges are not part of the first phase. That second stage is expected by the end of 2027, according to the FSC’s current plan. The exact implementation date still depends on the regulator’s formal announcement.

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Policy and Regulation

Sep 29, 2026

NCSIST opens Chiayi Minxiong campus as drone industrial park breaks ground

Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) officially opened its Minxiong campus in Chiayi on Sept. 28, while construction also began on the western section of the Minxiong Aerospace and Drone Industrial Park. The project is set up under a dual-track structure: the eastern side is focused on defense R&D, and the western side is designed for military-civilian applications. Officials presented the development as a move that pushes Taiwan’s drone supply chain from R&D verification toward mass production. According to the source, the eastern campus has received NT$1.11 billion in investment since December 2023 to develop 5.12 hectares of land, including an R&D building and integrated testing hangars for medium- and large-sized drone systems. The western industrial park has been approved for NT$6.859 billion in public construction funding by the Executive Yuan and is scheduled for completion in 2028. Authorities estimate the park could host around 100 companies, create 1,200 jobs, and generate NT$8 billion in annual output. Chiayi County officials said the broader local buildout now links R&D, testing, manufacturing, and industrial park capacity through the Minxiong site and the Asia UAV AI Innovation Application R&D Center.

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United States

Sep 28, 2026

US ambassador says Taiwan policy is unchanged, reveals Trump once asked Xi if he wanted to buy US weapons

US Ambassador to China David Perdue said Washington’s policy toward Taiwan did not change after Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States last week, while also disclosing that Donald Trump has repeatedly discussed arms sales to Taiwan with Xi in past meetings. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Perdue said the US does not support Taiwan independence and does not support coercion, a formulation Bloomberg highlighted as the first clear post-summit statement from a US official on the issue. Perdue also said Trump had at times tried to frame arms sales to Taiwan as just one part of broader US weapons exports around the world. According to Perdue, Trump even once asked Xi whether he wanted to buy some US weapons, though the ambassador did not say when that remark was made. The Associated Press noted that an actual US arms sale to China would overturn decades of US policy toward both China and Taiwan. The AP also said a record $14 billion arms package for Taiwan remains on hold after a May Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing. Chinese state media, according to the report, said Xi asked Trump during last week’s White House talks to oppose Taiwan independence.

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Policy and Regulation

Sep 27, 2026

Taiwan banks’ first-half offshore profit hits NT$85.754 billion, a record for the period

Taiwan’s domestic banks posted NT$85.754 billion in combined after-tax profit from Offshore Banking Units and overseas branches in the first half of the year, according to the central bank’s latest statistics cited by ABMedia. That marked a 14.8% increase from a year earlier, the first time the total has moved above NT$80 billion, and a record for the same period. Second-quarter after-tax profit came in at about NT$44.3 billion, keeping the figure above NT$40 billion for a second straight quarter. ABMedia said that trend was supported by supply-chain realignment, faster overseas expansion by Taiwanese businesses, and stronger demand for cross-border capital and financial services under the government’s push to build an Asian asset management center. Among individual lenders, the top five profit contributors were all banks under private financial holding groups: CTBC Bank, Taipei Fubon Bank, E.SUN Bank, SinoPac Bank, and Cathay United Bank. Their combined after-tax profit reached NT$47.74 billion, accounting for 55.7% of the total. CTBC Bank led with NT$19.885 billion, followed by Taipei Fubon Bank with NT$10.05 billion. They were the only two banks whose first-half offshore profit topped NT$10 billion.

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Taiwan

Sep 22, 2026

Taiwan’s T.MicroSat-3 and T.MicroSat-4 set for SpaceX Bandwagon-5 launch

Taiwan startup Tron Future Tech is preparing to launch T.MicroSat-3 and T.MicroSat-4, the third and fourth satellites in its “Zhongque” low Earth orbit communications constellation, on SpaceX’s upcoming Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission. German launch integrator Exolaunch, which also supported the first two satellites, will again handle mission integration. Once the two spacecraft reach orbit, the four-satellite constellation will be complete. The project is part of the Taiwan Space Agency’s second-phase startup satellite program, launched in 2023, which assigned three domestic companies to build separate four-CubeSat constellations spanning satellite development, launch, ground control, and application services. Tron Future Tech’s system focuses on broadband communications using four 8U CubeSats. The company said earlier this year that T.MicroSat-1 and T.MicroSat-2 had completed Ka-band downlink verification and entered end-to-end communications testing. With T.MicroSat-3 and T.MicroSat-4, the program will move into its next phase, adding inter-satellite link testing at a designed data rate of 1 Mbps and expanding validation from individual spacecraft to the full constellation. Tron Future Tech has said one target is to build a B5G/6G technology test platform for low Earth orbit constellations.

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Micron

Sep 21, 2026

Micron and Taiwan Micron union hold first mediation meeting, schedule second session for Oct. 22

Micron and the Taiwan Micron Memory Labor Union held their first mediation meeting on Sept. 18, according to a ChainCatcher newsflash. The company said the two sides had constructive discussions that helped move communication forward and agreed to meet again on Oct. 22 for a second round of mediation. Micron said representatives discussed several topics during the meeting, including the overall compensation and bonus framework, the "No Free Rider" issue, and "Non-Retaliation." On the non-retaliation topic, the company reiterated its position under the Micron Global Team Member Handbook, saying team members have the right to assemble peacefully, associate freely, form and join unions or labor organizations of their choice, and seek collective bargaining or other forms of representation without fear of retaliation. The company also said both sides thanked the Central Taiwan Science Park Administration and the mediation committee for their assistance and support during the process. Micron added that the parties will keep communicating in a positive and pragmatic way, with mutual respect, while supporting employees, serving customers, and promoting the company’s continued success.

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CPC Taiwan

Sep 20, 2026

CPC Taiwan director warns debt burden could force court-led restructuring in 2027

CPC Taiwan is carrying TWD 850 billion in interest-bearing debt, and board director Wei Hui-shan said the state-owned oil company could face a point where assets no longer cover liabilities in 2027 if losses continue this year and global energy prices stay elevated. Under Taiwan’s Company Act, that would leave the board with a duty to petition a court for restructuring. Wei said annual interest costs alone are running into the tens of billions of Taiwan dollars, while the company’s debt ratio, which was a little above 60% before the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, climbed past 90% after 2022 and has stayed around 92% to 93% for nearly three years. She linked the deterioration to the surge in natural gas prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying CPC absorbed most of the added cost under government price-freeze policies. The Ministry of Economic Affairs has planned two separate items in its 2026 supplementary budget: TWD 238.8 billion for a capital injection into CPC and TWD 108.9 billion in subsidies for frozen prices on gasoline, diesel, natural gas and bottled LPG. Wei said the two are not overlapping, with subsidies covering policy-driven losses and the capital injection aimed at repaying old debt and lowering interest expenses.

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