KGI Bank

KGI Bank
凱基商業銀行
Industry	Banking
Founded	12 February 1992
Founder	Hsu Sheng-fa
Headquarters	Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan
Key people	Mark Wei, Chairperson; Richard Chang, President
Products	Financial services
Total assets	NT$519,056,260,000 (30 June 2016)
Website	Official website

KGI Bank (traditional Chinese: 凱基商業銀行; simplified Chinese: 凯基商业银行; pinyin: Kǎijī Shāngyè Yínháng; Wade–Giles: K'ai³-Chi¹ Shang¹-yeh⁴ Yin²-hang²) is a commercial bank of Taiwan. It is part of KGI Financial Holding.

History

Cosmos Bank

The financial institution founded by Hsu Sheng-fa obtained its incorporation approval on 13 August 1991 as Cosmos Bank. It acquired its license on 14 January 1992 and commenced its business on 12 February 1992.

On 10 February 2014, the bank agreed on share-swap to make it a subsidiary of KGI Financial Holding Corporation (CDF) and officially became CDF subsidiary on 15 September 2014. CDF acquired Cosmos Bank at the cost of NT$23.09 billion.^[1]^[2]

KGI Bank

In January 2015, Cosmos Bank was renamed as KGI Commercial Bank.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

From this point on, CDIB's Corporate Banking and Financial Markets were ceded to KGI Commercial Bank.^[7]

References

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^ "Introduction" (PDF). KGI Bank. 2004. p. 9. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
^ "Introduction". KGI Bank. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
^ 陳瑩欣 (2014-10-09). "萬泰銀掰掰！正式更名為凱基銀行". 台灣蘋果日報即時新聞. Retrieved 2014-10-09.
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^ 楊筱筠 (2015-05-05). "凱基銀讓與完成開發金拚總資產破兆" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). United Daily News. Retrieved 2015-05-12.