Financial services in Taiwan

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Can foreigners get a credit card in Taiwan?

Can foreigners get a credit card in Taiwan? poll If i were to ask you for your vote today: “can foreigners get a Taiwanese credit card?”, what would you say? No: “everybody knows it’s not possible” Yes: patrick-cowsill.blogspot.com/200 … rd-in.html Will be interesting to see how similar Taiwan is to Japan: in Japan everybody “knows” of all those things that are impossible. … even though there is no rule about any of those things… … but they are impossible… … because we collectively belie…

The best bank for foreigner

I am going to apply for an ARC and I also want to open a bank/ post office account for myself. I’ve been wondering which one is the best for a foreigner like me? (have to transfer euro’s to NTD… not really a good timing though ) Anyone has any experience that he/she wants to share? Hope you guys can help me. CHeers mate!!! Thank you! :lick:

Banking in taiwan

Hi guys, I am searching for a bank, a good bank that provides english service. Currently I am thinking of HSBC which is world wide and has online access. I am not too sure about citibank even though it’s independent from the States which went bank crupted (i think). I don’t know if HSBC offers one account and money can deposite in HSBC branch any where in the world without charging transaction fee. Even though from what I’ve heard that international net banking still requires transaction fe…

Credit cards (or VISA/MasterCard debit cards) are old issues. Most banks nowadays, would offer you the cards for free.

Recently, most of the problems are:

1. unavailability of English (dual language) forms for transfer money or other purposes.
2. unavailability English speaking staff in teller/counter or customer service in some out-of-city locations.
3. uncommon foreign currencies (aside from USD, JPY, CNY or EUR) usually unavailable in said locations as well. Even GBP would be difficult to get in most New Taipei banks.