<div id="readability-page-1"><div> Taiwan’s financial firms have posted record first-quarter pretax profits, up 37.09 percent from a year earlier, as the booming local stock market boosted investment returns, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) said.Combined pretax profits of the local banking, insurance and securities industries reached NT$370.997 billion (US$11.81 billion) in the January-to-March period, smashing the previous first-quarter record of NT$317.63 billion from 2021, data released on Sunday by Taiwan’s top financial regulator showed.The banking industry posted NT$195.24 billion in pretax profit in the first quarter, up 28.5 percent from a year earlier, the FSC said.The banking industry includes domestic banks, foreign and Chinese banks operating in Taiwan, credit cooperatives, and savings and exchange agencies.Domestic banks in the first quarter registered a 20.5 percent increase in pretax profits to NT$174.28 billion, the highest for the same period, FSC data showed. Banks benefited from an increase in interest income, fee income and investment returns, FSC Banking Bureau Deputy Director-General Chang Chia-kui (張嘉魁) said.A domestic banking industry source said that the capital market performed well early this year, as optimism surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) helped offset concerns over the US-Iran conflict, and increase income from wealth management.Strong global demand for AI prompted semiconductor and other tech suppliers to seek funding for expansion, boosting banks’ corporate lending business, the source added.In the insurance industry, pretax profits rose 16 percent from a year earlier to NT$108.2 billion in the first quarter, the data showed.Pretax profits for life insurers, which make up the bulk of the industry, rose 13.5 percent to NT$96.4 billion, while nonlife insurers saw a 43.9 percent rise to NT$11.8 billion.With the TAIEX repeatedly setting closing highs during the first quarter, pretax profits in the securities industry surged 164 percent from a year earlier to NT$67.56 billion — also a record for the same period — amid increased market turnover, the FSC said.The rise in stock turnover particularly benefited brokerages, with their pretax profits jumping 225 percent to NT$54.23 billion, FSC Securities and Futures Bureau Secretary-General Wang Hsiu-ling (王秀玲) said.Meanwhile, investment trust firms’ net profits increased 49.94 percent to NT$9.99 billion on higher fee income due to growth in asset management scale, Wang said. </div></div>

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台湾金融业在第一季度创下历史新高的税前利润，较去年增长 37.09%。根据金融监督管理委员会（FSC）的数据，银行、保险和证券行业的税前利润总计达到 3709.97 亿新台币（118.1 亿美元），打破 2021 年第一季度 3176.3 亿新台币的纪录。银行业的税前利润为 1952.4 亿新台币，较去年增长 28.5%。

Taiwan’s financial sector posts record profits for Q1