UNOFFICIAL EXCHANGE: Wellington Koo said he hoped the commission’s first public visit to China since 2015 could form a prelude to a resumption of official exchanges with Beijing
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 27, 2017
By: Reuters, TAIPEI
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) on Friday said it aims to send a high-level
Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Wellington Koo speaks during an interview in Taipei on Friday. Photo: Brenda Goh, Reuters
official to a private-sector meeting in China next month where financial supervisory issues will be discussed, in a bid to maintain relations even as political ties have chilled.
FSC Chairman Wellington Koo (顧立雄) said that the commission will send an official of “deputy bureau chief or higher” to the meeting, which he said would be organized by the private sector.
The last time Chinese and Taiwanese financial regulators publicly met was in 2015 at an annual cross-strait meeting.
Those meetings, which began in 2011, have not been held since President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took office in May last year. [FULL STORY]
