Bank of Taiwan

Bank of Taiwan

Head office building in Taipei
Company type	State-owned
Industry	Banking
Founded	1897; 127 years ago (1897)
Headquarters	Taipei, Taiwan
Area served	Taiwan Japan Australia Singapore United Kingdom United States China Hong Kong South Africa
Key people	Joseph Lyu (Chairperson)
Products	Financial services
Total assets	NTD 4,929 billion (2017) (US$ 1,643 billion)[1]
Number of employees	8,122 (2017)
Parent	Taiwan Financial Holdings Group
Website	bot.com.tw/en/
Footnotes / references Issuer of banknotes (1899–2000), De facto Central Bank (1949–1961)

The Bank of Taiwan (BOT; Chinese: 臺灣銀行; pinyin: Táiwān Yínháng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-oân gîn-hâng) is a commercial bank headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. It was established in 1897-1899 as a Japanese policy institution or "special bank", similarly as the Nippon Kangyo Bank (est. 1897), Hokkaido Takushoku Bank (est. 1900), Industrial Bank of Japan (est. 1902), and Bank of Chōsen (est. 1909). Its aim was to finance industrial demand in Japanese-ruled Taiwan and also to promote trade between South China, Southeast Asia and the Japanese possessions in the Pacific.^{[2]: 16–17}

The Bank of Taiwan was the main issuer of banknotes on the island from 1899 to 1961, when that role was taken over by the Central Bank of China. Having lost its former role as a bank of issue, it remains owned by the Government of the Republic of China.