Taiwan’s central bank has warned “a few foreign investors” against violating its capital controls as it seeks to contain volatility in its rapidly appreciating currency.

The local dollar’s strong rally against the greenback will hit earnings at Cathay Life and peers, which have some $760 bln invested abroad. Hedges and reserves soften the blow. But the underlying ...

Fitch estimates the insurers have sufficient capital buffers to withstand a 10% rise in the Taiwan dollar against the U.S. dollar from the start of 2025. Currently, the local currency is up about ...

Taiwan’s life insurers’ foreign exchange losses more than doubled to a combined NT$263.8 billion ($9.1 billion) from January through May, as the US dollar’s recent slide drove down the value ...

HONG KONG, May 09, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Taiwan dollar has rallied against the U.S. dollar at an unprecedented pace over the past few days, which holds implications for domestic life insurers ...

The financial maths in the face of this kind of mismatch is brutal — a 5 per cent move in the Taiwan dollar costs the insurers $10bn or so, a 10 per cent move would constitute a $20bn hit, ...

Another flare-up in the Taiwan dollar’s strength is unwelcome news for the island’s exporters and life insurers. The New Taiwan dollar hit a three-year high against the greenback on Friday ...

In this case, Taiwan life insurers over the years have put their assets into U.S.-dollar-denominated bonds - which was and even is not a terrible strategy - but they have done so without hedging ...

Taiwan’s currency jumped 6.2% against the US dollar over two days at the start of May, an almost unprecedented move given the island’s normally stable exchange rates.

Sales of investment-linked insurance products surged by 90% YoY. Premium revenues from new foreign-currency denominated policies sold by Taiwan’s life insurance sector reached NT$32.343b in ...