Taiwan Cooperative Bank (合作金庫銀行), the nation’s largest lender by number of branches, yesterday issued NT$1 billion (US$36.16 million) of sustainability bonds and listed the debt on the Taipei Exchange.
It is the first sustainability bond launched by a state-run bank and it pushes the total amount of sustainability bonds issued in Taiwan to NT$50.4 billion since the first was launched in October last year, the exchange said in a statement.
The Taipei Exchange, which manages the listing and trading of the bonds, said they are a combination of green and social bonds, which are used to finance projects that bring environmental and
More businesses using contactless payment methods
By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporter
More small merchants, stores and vendors have adopted contactless payment methods amid rising domestic COVID-19 infections.
“The number of stores that have asked about our service and were interested in using our electronic payment tool has risen more than 40 percent since the COVID-19 alert was raised to level 3 nationwide last week,” Line Pay Taiwan Ltd (連加網路商業) said in a statement yesterday.
Line Pay Taiwan said that most of them are small or medium-sized stores or online merchants, which are generally more hesitant about accepting virtual payments than larger stores.
A convenience store worker scans a QR code on a customer’s phone to complete a transaction in Taipei on Nov. 6, 2019. More small merchants, stores and vendors have adopted contactless payment methods amid rising domestic COVID-19 infections, companies said yesterday.
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More than 200 finance firms allow working from home
By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporter
A total of 236 financial companies have adopted work-from-home programs, nearly double the 124 firms that had done so as of Monday, amid a surge in COVID-19 infections, Financial Supervisory Commission data showed yesterday.
The number of securities investment trust and consulting companies that allow telecommuting grew threefold from Monday, as most of their staff do not need to interact with customers in-person, the commission said.
The commission has talked with local insurers about the issue and would allow them to use software such as mobile apps to enable sales agents to talk with customers through videoconference, it said.
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