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TBB AGM Information 2020

Jul 23, 2020

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Meeting Minutes for 2020 Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd.

Time: Friday, May 29, 2020, at 9:00 am Venue: 17F., No. 30, Tacheng St., Datong Dist., Taipei City Attendance: The total issued shares of the Bank was 7,131,984,244 shares. The shareholding of the attending shareholders on the date of the meeting was 4,144,236,935 shares (3,630,949,229 shares therein attended and exercised the voting rights by electronic means), representing 58.10% total issued shares.

Participants: Managing Director and President Chih-Chien Chang Managing Director Lien-Wen Liang Independent Director Jin-Long Liu (Chairperson of the Audit Committee)

Independent Director Xin-Wu Lin (Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee)

Director Shiu-Yen Lin Director Wen-Chieh Wang Director Hung-Sheng Yu Director Tzu-Hao Tsai Director Ying-Ming He Director Kuo-Chang Huang Independent Director Wei-Sheng Huang Ya-Wen Chiu, Attorney at law

Zheng-Xin Xu, Attorney at law Tan-Tan Chung, CPA

Chairman: Chairman Bor-Yi Huang

I. Call the Meeting to Order

The total number of shares issued by the Bank was 7,131,984,244 shares. The shareholding of the attending shareholders at the time of 9:00 a.m. was 4,144,113,130 shares (3,630,949,229 shares therein attended and exercised the voting rights by electronic means), representing 58.10% of total issued shares, which has complied with the legal requirement of more than one-half of the shares in attendance. In addition, more than half of the Directors of the Bank and members of the functional committees have also attended the meeting; therefore, the Chairman called the meeting to order according to the law.

II. Opening Remarks by Chairman

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III. Report Matters

Report I

Explanation: The Bank's 2019 Operating Report.

Description: For the Bank's 2019 Operating Report, please refer to Page 17 ~ 31 of the Handbook.

The shareholder (Shareholder No. 10973) made a statement about the Bank's NPL ratio and coverage ratio in March 2020 and the comparison with other banks, as well as the respective targets of the NPL ratio and coverage ratio to be set by the Board every year.

The Chairman and the relevant personnel have made explanations on the above statements.

Resolution: Acknowledged.

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Report II

Explanation: The Audit Committee's review report on the 2019 financial statements of the Bank

Description: For the Audit Committee's review report, please refer to Page 4 of the Handbook.

Resolution: Acknowledged.

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Report III

Explanation: Reporting on the distribution of remuneration for employees and Directors of the Bank for 2019

Description:

  1. Complying with Article 235-1 of the Company Act, relevant distribution had been submitted to the 11th meeting of the 4th Remuneration Committee and the 13th meeting of the 15th Board of Directors and had received the approval.

  2. Remuneration of employees and Directors for 2019 were distributed in cash and distributed as follows:

  3. (1) Employee remuneration (4.574%): NT$384,639,214.

  4. (2) Director remuneration (0.6%): NT$50,455,516.

    • The proposed distribution for the remuneration of employees and Directors shown above have been accounted for the expenses of the year according to requirements.

Resolution: Acknowledged.

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Report IV

Explanation: Reporting on the amendments to the Rules of Procedures for Board Meeting of the Bank.

Description:

  1. Complying with the requirements of Article 10 and Article 16 under the "Regulations Governing Procedure for Board of Directors Meetings of Public Companies" amended through Order Jin-Guan-Zheng-Fa-Zi No. 1080361934 issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission on January 15, 2020.

  2. The amendments to the Articles are summarized as below:

  3. (1) Where the Board meeting is convened by the majority of the Directors according to the law, the chairman shall be elected among the Directors. (Article 10)

  4. (2) Where the spouse, a relative within the second degree of kinship of a Director, or any company which has a controlling or subordinate relation with a Director has any interests in the matters under discussion at the meeting, the Director shall be deemed as having a personal interest in such matters. (Article 17)

  5. For the "Comparison Table of the Drafted Amendment to the Rules of Procedures for Board Meeting" of the Bank, please refer to Page 7 ~ 10 of the Handbook.

Resolution: Acknowledged.

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Comparison Table of the Drafted Amendment to the Rules of Procedures for Board Meeting of Taiwan Business Bank

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Article 10 (Chairman and representative
of the Board)
Board meetings of the Bank convened
by the Chairman shall be chaired by the
Chairman. The first Board meeting of
each term shall be convened and chaired
by the Director who received votes
representing the largest portion of voting
rights at the shareholders' meeting.
When there are two or more persons
with the right to convene, they shall
select one from among themselves to
serve as chairperson of the meeting.
Where the Board meeting is convened
by the majority of the Directors
according to the law, the chairman shall
be elected among the Directors.
When the Chairman is unable to present
himself/herself when he/she is on leave
or due to other causes, the Chairman
shall designate a Managing Director as
the proxy. When there is no designation
made, a Managing Director shall be
elected amongthemselves.
Article 10 (Chairman and
representative of the Board)
The Board meetings shall be convened
and chaired by the Chairman of the
Board. However, the first Board
meeting of each term shall be convened
and chaired by the Director who
received votes representing the largest
portion of voting rights at the
shareholders' meeting. When there are
two or more persons with the right to
convene, they shall select one from
among themselves to serve as
chairperson of the meeting.
When the Chairman is unable to present
himself/herself when he/she is on leave
or due to other causes, the Chairman
shall designate a Managing Director as
the proxy. When there is no designation
made, a Managing Director shall be
elected amongthemselves.

1. Amended
wording.
2. Added that where
the Board meeting
is convened by
the majority of the
Directors
according to the
law, the chairman
shall be elected
among the
Directors
according to
requirements of
Article 10 under
the "Regulations
Governing
Procedure for
Board of
Directors
Meetings of
Public
Companies."
Article 17 (Conflict of interests
abstaining system for Directors)
Where any item on the agenda results in
conflicts of interest with any Director or
the corporation represented by the
Director, the Director shall state the
important aspects of the interested party
relationship at the Board meeting; when
the said interest is harmful to the
interests of the Bank, the Director shall
not participate in and shall abstain from
discussion and voting and shall not
represent other Directors as a proxy to
exercise their voting rights.
Where the spouse, a relative within the
second degree of kinship of a Director,
or any company which has a controlling
or subordinate relation with a Director
has interests in the matters under
discussion in the meeting of the
preceding Paragraph, the Director shall
be deemed to have a personal interest in
the matter.
Article 17 (Conflict of interests
abstaining system for Directors)
Where any item on the agenda results
in conflicts of interest with any Director
or the corporation represented by the
Director, the Director shall state the
important aspects of the interested party
relationship at the Board meeting; when
the said interest is harmful to the
interests of the Bank, the Director shall
not participate in and shall abstain from
discussion and voting and shall not
represent other Directors as a proxy to
exercise their voting rights.



1. Added that where
the spouse, a
relative within the
second degree of
kinship of a
Director, or any
company which
has a controlling
or subordinate
relation with a
Director has
interests in the
matters under
discussion in the
meeting of the
preceding
Paragraph, the
Director shall be
deemed to have a
personal interest
in the matter,
according to
requirements of

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
For resolutions of the Board meeting,
Directors who are not permitted to
exercise their voting rights in the
previous two Paragraphs shall comply
with requirements under Paragraph 4,
Article 206 of the Company Act, under
which the provisions of Paragraph 2,
Article 180 shall apply mutatis mutandis.
For resolutions of the Board meeting,
Directors who are not permitted to
exercise their voting rights in the
previous Paragraph shall comply with
requirements under Paragraph 3, Article
206 of the Company Act, under which
the provisions of Paragraph 2, Article
180 shall apply mutatis mutandis.

Article 16 under
the "Regulations
Governing
Procedure for
Board of
Directors
Meetings of
Public
Companies."
2. Adjusted the
Paragraph
sequence and
amended the
wording.
Article 11 (Reference materials and
attending personnel at the Board
meeting)
Upon convening the Board meeting, the
unit responsible for meeting affairs and
the managing department shall prepare
relevant information readily available to
Directors at the meeting for reference.
When holding a meeting of the Board,
the Bank may notify personnel of
relevant departments or subsidiaries to
present at the meeting and report the
current business situation of the Bank
and answer questions raised by Directors
to assist them in understanding the
current condition of the Bank and arrive
at proper resolutions.
When necessary, the CPAs, lawyers or
other professionals may also be invited
to be present at the meeting and provide
explanations. However, they shall excuse
themselves during discussion and voting.



Article 11 (Reference materials and
attending personnel at the Board
meeting)
Upon convening the Board meeting, the
unit responsible for meeting affairs and
the managing department shall prepare
relevant information readily available
to Directors at the meeting for
reference. When holding a meeting of
the Board, the Bank may notify
personnel of relevant departments or
subsidiaries to present at the meeting
and report the current business situation
of the Bank and answer questions
raised by Directors to assist them in
understanding the current condition of
the Bank and arrive at proper
resolutions. When necessary, the CPAs,
lawyers or other professionals may also
be invited to be present at the meeting
and provide explanations. However,
they shall excuse themselves during
discussion and voting.


With reference to the
requirements of
Article 11 under the
"Regulations
Governing Procedure
for Board of
Directors Meetings
of Public
Companies," adjust
the Paragraph "When
necessary, the
CPAs, ..." as
Paragraph 2 to
clarify the meaning.
Article 18 (Meeting minutes and signed
matters)
A minute book shall be prepared for the
discussions at Board meetings. The
minute book shall detail the following
matters:
1. The term (or year), time, and place of
the Board meeting.
2. Name of the Chairman.
3. Directors' attendance status,
including names and numbers of
Directors who are present, on leave,
and absent.
4. Names and titles of non-voting

Article 18 (Meeting minutes and signed
matters)
A minute book shall be prepared for the
discussions at Board meetings. The
minute book shall detail the following
matters:
1. The term (or year), time, and place
of the Board meeting.
2. Name of the Chairman.
3. Directors' attendance status,
including names and numbers of
Directors who are present, on leave,
and absent.
4. Names and titles of non-voting
Amended the name
of the department-in-
charge.

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  • Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description

  • attendees. attendees.

    1. Name of the recorder. 5. Name of the recorder. 6. Report items. 6. Report items. 7. Discussion: The resolution method 7. Discussion: The resolution method and the result for each motion; a and the result for each motion; a summary of comments made by summary of comments made by Directors, experts, or other Directors, experts, or other individuals; the name of any Director individuals; the name of any that is an interested party as referred Director that is an interested party to in Paragraph 1 of the previous as referred to in Paragraph 1 of the Article, an explanation for the previous Article, an explanation for important aspects of the relationship the important aspects of the of interest, the reasons why the relationship of interest, the reasons Director was required or not required why the Director was required or to recuse, and the status of their not required to recuse, and the status recusal; objection or qualified of their recusal; objection or opinions which are on record or qualified opinions which are on indicated in a written statement as record or indicated in a written well as the written opinions issued by statement as well as the written independent Directors according to opinions issued by independent the requirements under Paragraph 6, Directors according to the Article 6. requirements under Paragraph 6,
    1. Questions and motions: Name of Article 6. proposer, resolution methods and the 8. Questions and motions: Name of results for the motions; a summary of proposer, resolution methods and comments made by Directors, the results for the motions; a experts, or other individuals; the summary of comments made by name of any Director that is an Directors, experts, or other interested party as referred to in individuals; the name of any Paragraph 1 of the previous Article, Director that is an interested party an explanation for the important as referred to in Paragraph 1 of the aspects of the relationship of interest, previous Article, an explanation for the reasons why the Director was the important aspects of the required or not required to abstain, relationship of interest, the reasons and the status of their abstaining; why the Director was required or objection or qualified opinions which not required to abstain, and the are on record or indicated in a written status of their abstaining; objection statement. or qualified opinions which are on
    1. Other matters that shall be recorded. record or indicated in a written Any of the following matters in relation statement. to a resolution passed at a meeting of the 9. Other matters that shall be recorded. Board of shall be stated in the meeting Any of the following matters in minutes and be published on an relation to a resolution passed at a information reporting website designated meeting of the Board of shall be by the competent authority within two stated in the meeting minutes and be days from the meeting: published on an information reporting website designated by the competent authority within two days
    1. Independent Directors have any from the meeting:
  • Independent Directors have any objection or qualified opinions which are on record or indicated in a written

  • Independent Directors have

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
statement.
2. Matters which are approved by two-
thirds of all Directors when the
Bank's Audit Committee does not
approve.
The attendance book of the Board
meeting is a part of the meeting minutes
and shall be retained throughout the
duration of the Bank's existence.
A minute book shall be dispatched to all
Directors within 20 days from the
meeting after being signed or affixed
seal by the Chairman and the recorder of
the meeting. A minute book shall be
listed as an important document of the
Bank and shall be retained throughout
the duration of the Bank's existence.
The meeting minutes set out in
Paragraph 1 may be prepared and
distributed by electronic means.
Where the resolution at the meeting of
the Board is material information under
the law or the requirements of Taiwan
Stock Exchange, the department-in-
charge shall submit the material
information to the Business
Development Department within the
prescribed time for uploading to the
Market Observation Post System.
objection or qualified opinions
which are on record or indicated in
a written statement.
2. Matters which are approved by two-
thirds of all Directors when the
Bank's Audit Committee does not
approve.
The attendance book of the Board
meeting is a part of the meeting
minutes and shall be retained
throughout the duration of the Bank's
existence.
A minute book shall be dispatched to
all Directors within 20 days from the
meeting after being signed or affixed
seal by the Chairman and the recorder
of the meeting. A minute book shall be
listed as an important document of the
Bank and shall be retained throughout
the duration of the Bank's existence.
The meeting minutes set out in
Paragraph 1 may be prepared and
distributed by electronic means.
Where the resolution at the meeting of
the Board is material information under
the law or the requirements of Taiwan
Stock Exchange, the department-in-
charge shall submit the material
information to the Business
Management Department within the
prescribed time for uploading to the
Market Observation Post System.

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Report V

Explanation: Reporting on the execution of capital increase through private placement for common shares of the Bank.

Description:

  1. The following was passed by the shareholders' meeting of the Bank on June 14, 2019: To carry out the private placement for no more than 1,000,000,000 common shares of the Bank in batches (no more than three times) within one year from the date of resolution at the shareholders' meeting.

  2. The Bank has already carried out the private placement for 418,410,041 common shares. The private placement will expire on June 13, 2020 and the Bank has no intention to continue the private placement for common shares regarding the remaining limits within the remaining term.

  3. For the private placement for common shares of the Bank during 2019, please refer to Page12 ~ 13 of the Handbook.

Resolution: Acknowledged.

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Report on the execution of capital increase through private placement for common shares of Taiwan Business Bank.

common shares of Taiwan Business Bank. common shares of Taiwan Business Bank. common shares of Taiwan Business Bank. common shares of Taiwan Business Bank. common shares of Taiwan Business Bank.
Item Private placement during 2019
Date of issuance(date of delivery): November 1,2019
The type of
securities of the
privateplacement
Common shares
Approved at the
shareholders'
meeting
Date and amount
Passed by the shareholders' meeting on June 14, 2019
Amount: No more than 1,000,000,000 common shares in batches (no more than three times) within
one year.
Basis and rationale
for the pricing
1. Taking August 19, 2019 as the pricing date:
(1) NT$12.50, NT$12.55, and NT$12.54, respectively, the simple average closing price of the
common shares of the Bank for either the 1, 3, or 5 business days before the pricing date,
after adjustment for any distribution of stock dividends, cash dividends or capital
reduction.
(2) NT$12.46, the simple average closing price of the common shares of the Bank for 30
business days before the pricing date, after adjustment for any distribution of stock
dividends, cash dividends or capital reduction.
(3) Select NT$12.54, the higher of NT$12.54 and NT$12.46, the simple average closing price
of the common shares of the Bank for 5 and 30 business days before the pricing date,
after adjustment for any distribution of stock dividends, cash dividends or capital
reduction, as the reference price for the private placement.
2. The pricing of the private placement shall base on the requirements under the laws and
regulations issued by the competent authority, and shall consider factors such as stringent
restriction on the transfer timing, target, and amount of the private placement for common
shares, restriction of three-year in no consultancy for listing, and poor liquidity. Therefore, the
pricingfor theprivateplacement shall be reasonable.
The method for
selecting the
specificpersons
Strategic investors with qualification complying with the relevant requirements under
Subparagraph 2, Paragraph 1, Article 43-6 of the Securities and Exchange Act and Order Tai-cai-
cheng-(yi)-zi No. 0910003455 issued bythe Financial SupervisoryCommission on June 13,2002.
Reasons for the
necessity for
conducting the
privateplacement
To strengthen Bank's role as a specialized bank, comply with its policy function, and allow the
operating direction of the Bank to work closely with the economic and industrial policies of the
government, the Bank intends to carry out a capital increase through the private placement and
engage strategic investors.
Date of full
payment for shares
August 26, 2019
Information about
the placement
investor
Private
placement
target
Company
Qualifications Quantity of
subscription
Relationship with
the Bank

Operating
conditions of
participating
companies
National
Development
Fund

Its qualification shall comply
with the relevant requirements
under Subparagraph 2,
Paragraph 1, Article 43-6 of the
Securities and Exchange Act
and Order Tai-cai-cheng-(yi)-zi
No. 0910003455 issued by the
Financial Supervisory
Commission on June 13, 2002.
418,410,041
(shares)
National Development Fund had
no shareholding in the Bank before
participating in the private
placement and had not involved in
the operation of the Bank. After
participating in the private
placement, National Development
Fund became the second
substantial shareholder of the
Bank, holding approximately
5.87% shares of the Bank.
Actual subscription
price

NT$11.95 per share
Discrepancy
between the actual
subscription price
and the reference
price
The actual price for the private placement was NT$11.95, which was 95.3% of the reference price
and complied with the resolution passed by the shareholders' meeting that the actual price shall be
no less than 95% of the reference price.

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Item Private placement during 2019
Date of issuance(date of delivery): November 1,2019
Effect of the
private placement
on shareholder
equity
After the capital increase through the private placement, the net value, common equity ratio, and
government-owned shareholding of the Bank have increased, which effectively enriched the
operating capital of the Bank, enhanced our capital structure, and injected development momentum
for our operation, further consolidating the operating ownership of the government and benefiting
the shareholder equityin a whole.
Use of capital
raised through
private placement
and progress of the
plan
Proceeds from the private placement are fully utilized in increasing loans for SMEs. Proceeds from
the private placement were fully utilized in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Realization of
benefits of the plan
1. Balances for loans to SMEs of the Bank amounted to NT$533.933 billion as of the end of the
fourth quarter in 2019, representing an increase of NT$16.784 billion from NT$517.149 billion
as of the end of August 2019. The proceeds from the private placement have effectively
injected development momentum for our operation in loans to SMEs.
2. Common equity ratio was 8.39% as of the end of August 2019, representing an increase of
0.52% from 7.87% as of July 2019; the net value also increased from NT$88.592 billion to
NT$94.103 billion. The private placement has effectively enriched the operating capital of the
Bank,enhanced our capital structure,and injected development momentum for our operation.

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Report VI

Explanation: Communicating relevant legal measures for the same person or same concerned party who holds more than a certain percent of the Bank's outstanding voting shares.

Description:

  1. According to the Letter Jin-guan-yin-kong-zi No. 1006005191 issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission on January 31, 2012, to implement the requirements under Article 25 of the Banking Act, the Bank shall include the information regarding the election as a reporting case one year prior to the election to remind shareholders to pay attention to relevant requirements.

  2. The contents of the related law to be propagated are stated as follows:

  3. (1) According to the requirements under Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3, Article 25 of the Banking Act, the same person or same concerned party who singly, jointly or collectively acquires more than five percent (5%) of the Bank's outstanding voting shares shall report such fact to the Financial Supervisory Commission within ten (10) days from the day of acquisition; the preceding provision applies to each cumulative increase or decrease in the shares of the same person or same concerned party by more than one percent (1%) thereafter. The same person or same concerned party who acquires more than ten percent (10%), twenty-five percent (25%) or fifty percent (50%) of the Bank's outstanding voting shares shall apply for prior approval of the Financial Supervisory Commission. The definition of the "same person" and "same concerned party," and the exceptional circumstances are stated in Article 25-1 of the Banking Act.

  4. (2) Where the same person or same concerned party who holds voting shares issued by the Bank without filing a report with or obtaining approval from the Financial Supervisory Commission in accordance with the above

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provisions, the excess shares held by such same person or same concerned party shall not have voting rights and shall be disposed of within the given period prescribed by the Financial Supervisory Commission according to the provision under Paragraph 7, Article 25 of the same Act. Furthermore, according to the provision under Paragraph 3, Article 128 of the same Act, such shareholders shall be punished by an administrative fine no less than NT$2 million and no more than NT$10 million. Where such personnel is elected as a Director or other responsible person of the Bank in the future, the Financial Supervisory Commission would consider the reasons unfit for being a such as or responsible person, dishonesty inappropriateness, under Subparagraph 13, Article 3 of the "Regulations Governing Qualification Requirements and Concurrent Serving Restrictions and Matters for Compliance by the Responsible Persons of Banks."

Resolution: Acknowledged.

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IV. Recognition Matters

Proposal I by the Board

Explanation: Adoption of the 2019 financial statements of the Bank.

Description: The 2019 financial statements of the Bank, including the operating report, balance sheet, consolidated statement of profit or loss, statement of changes in equity, and statement of cash flow (please refer to Page 17 ~ 47 of the Handbook) have been submitted to and passed by the 13th meeting of the 15th Board of Directors.

Voting Method: Proposals shall be discussed for voting on a case-by-case basis. Voting shall be carried out after finishing the discussion on the first and second proposals of the recognition matters.

Voting results:

Number of
Votes by
Attending
Shareholders
For Against Void Abstain/
Did not vote
Counts Ratio
(%)
Counts Counts Counts
4,144,228,835 3,711,225,628
(3,200,473,059
votes therein
exercised the
voting rights
by electronic
means)
89.55 2,854,461
(2,840,765 votes
therein
exercised the
voting rights by
electronic
means)
1,052,520 429,096,226
(427,635,405 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights
by electronic
means)

Resolution: The case was passed as proposed after voting.

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Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd. Operating Report for 2019

The prosperous economic environment was clouded over abruptly at the end of 2018 due to the heated trade conflicts between the U.S. and the PRC, resulting in the fluctuations of global financial performance during 2019. Throughout 2019, the global economic conditions have been shadowed by the impacts arising from the trade conflicts between the U.S. and the PRC. Positive estimation regarding the trade negotiations between the U.S. and the PRC had only been brought by December. Therefore, the IMF estimated the global economic growth rate in 2019 to be 3.0%, setting the lowest record since 2009.

The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) announced the cut of interest rates for a consecutive three times, significantly narrowing the long-term and short-term interest rate differentials of the U.S. dollars (USD), and even resulted in a short period of rate inversion. In regards to the European situation, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of Japan (BoJ), and the People's Bank of China have continued to maintain easing monetary policies. In general, major central banks worldwide have continued to implement Quantitative easing monetary policies.

In terms of domestic economic performance, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan estimated the economic growth rate of Taiwan in 2019 to be 2.71%.

Regarding interest rates, the trend of interest rates throughout the year 2019 remained relatively stable. The Central Bank determined to make no adjustment to the interest rates for a consecutive 14 seasons at the joint meeting of directors and supervisors at the end of 2019; the rediscount rate, rate on accommodations with collateral, and rate on accommodations without collateral remained at 1.375%, 1.75%, and 3.625%, respectively.

Regarding the trend of the New Taiwan Dollar's (NTD) currency rate, the currency rate at the beginning of 2019 was around US$1 to NT$30.8. The currency rate of NTD depreciated against USD in the middle of the year, affected by the heated trade conflicts between the U.S. and the PRC and dropped to US$1 to NT$31.5. The currency rate of NTD appreciated against USD gradually due to the effects of capital return invested by Taiwanese businessmen in the 4th quarter in 2019 and rose to approximately US$1 to NT$30 near the year end.

Looking into 2020, the sluggish investment condition in the past years is expected to be cleared away with the capital investments made by the returned Taiwanese businessmen. In addition to being a contributor to the GDP of the year, such investments increase the capital stock (sum of corporate assets) and future production capacities. In particular, the government focuses on high-valued, intelligent, or 5+2

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industries, where the salary level is generally higher than the average salary. In the future, when the return of Taiwanese businessmen is able to facilitate the domestic industry transformation continuously, and together with technical and occupational training, the growth of overall salary and the distributable income is expected to increase, providing assistance to the internal demand market.

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the Mainland China area, impacts are inevitable in the short run. However, due to the high transparency of pandemic information in Taiwan, Taiwanese businesses are likely to further repatriate, procuring large-scale international companies to place orders with companies within the supply chain in Taiwan.

Furthermore, as the global trading volume is affected by the trade war between the U.S. and the PRC, Taiwan, benefiting from the phenomenon of order transfers, has recorded a significant increase in its export value to the U.S.; therefore, Taiwan is holding relatively more support as compared with other Four Asian Tigers, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea. Even though the trade negotiation between the U.S. and the PRC has improved, Taiwanese businesses will continue to transfer their supply chains due to the surge of operating costs in the PRC resulted from factors such as the increase in awareness of environmental protection in the PRC and the salary growth in coastal provinces. As such, the trend of repatriation for Taiwanese businesses and high-valued industries will continue.

In the future, the Bank will continue to carry through the internal controls using three lines of defense, strengthen the overall risk control, and reinforce FinTech development as well as information security controls. Furthermore, looking from the perspective of a professional financial institution, the Bank will grasp business opportunities upon the return of Taiwanese businessmen and proactively assist returning Taiwanese businessmen in transforming their businesses in accordance with government policies not only to shape Taiwan into Asia’s high-end manufacturing center, but also jointly create Taiwan's 2.0 economic miracle. Meanwhile, the Bank will provide financial products and services integrated with environmental protection and social welfare measures that correspond to social requirements, proactively strengthening and assisting growth sustainability of Taiwanese SMEs, thus fulfilling its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The Bank will endeavor to turn the Bank into a leading brand in the field of SME financing and establish a solid foundation for the sustainable development of the Bank upon stepping into the next century.

The operation results in 2019 and the business plan for 2020 are summarized below:

1. Operation Results in 2019

(1) Implementation Status and Result of Business Plans

A. Profitability:

After-tax net profit for 2019 amounted to NT$6.734 billion (before-tax net profit was NT$7.974 billion). The Bank carried out a capital increase of NT$5 billion via transferred earnings of NT$3.197 billion and issued

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stock and cash dividends of NT$0.50 and NT$0.30 per share, respectively, for the previous year (2018).

  • B. Corporate Governance:

  • Reinforcement of information disclosure channels and upgrading of transparency in corporate governance

  • a. The Bank has long strived to enhance its corporate governance and is a listed company in the Top 5% of the Fifth Annual Corporate Governance Evaluation organized by the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE).

  • b. The Bank actively increased communication channels for domestic and overseas investors, and an online roadshow was respectively held in the first and second half of 2019. Each investor has immediate access to information on the Market Observation Post System (MOPS) and can obtain the same information simultaneously on the official TBB website. The Bank also issues press releases on an irregular basis, giving investors multiple channels for acquiring TBB information.

  • C. Core Businesses:

  • a. Corporate Banking

    • 1) The Bank received the Outstanding Award and Special Award for Balanced Regional Development from the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) for the Program to Encourage Loan Projects by Domestic Banks to SMEs (Group A).

    • 2) The Bank received the Outstanding Award and Special Award for the National Defense Industry, and Special Award for the Circular Economy Industry from the FSC for the Program to Encourage Lending by Domestic Banks to Key Innovative Industries (Group A).

    • 3) In recognition of the Bank's outstanding performance in small and medium enterprise financing, it received three major awards from the Small and Medium Enterprise Credit Guarantee Fund of Taiwan: The Credit Guarantee Partner Award, Policy Facilitation Award, and Direct Guarantee Performance Award.

    • 4) The Bank actively promoted the Phoenix Micro Start-up Loans and the Unemployment Start-up Loan for Employment Insurance and received a certificate of appreciation from the Ministry of Labor.

    • 5) The Bank received the Best from the Best Service Award for Start-up Enterprises from the Excellence Magazine under the category of non-financial holding for the 2019 5th Excellent Bank.

    • 6) In the extension of small and medium enterprise loans, the Bank

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ranked No. 1 in Taiwan in both total amount and ratio of loans transferred for guarantees to the Small and Medium Enterprise Credit Guarantee Fund.

  • b. Foreign Exchange Operations

The Bank worked vigorously to expand foreign-currency loans and boost interest margin income. Accumulated average loans outstanding in 2019 increased by 8.16% over 2018.

  • c. Wealth Management

    • In 2019, the Bank focused on strengthening its wealth-management business by vigorously expanding fee income from the insurance and fund businesses, with boosting revenue and generating profit as the priority goal. With the vigorous promotion of special programs aimed at the marketing of designated products, fee income from the wealth-management business amounted to approximately NT$1.44 billion in 2019.
  • D. Innovative Products

  • a. Continuous Innovation in Digital Banking businesses to provide more convenient services

    • 1) Added Taiwan Pay transaction function for mobile payment and inaugurated functions of Scanned for Withdrawal, Tax Payment by Credit Cards, and Debit Payment for Credit Card Purchase.

    • 2) Added the Taiwan Pay Merchant Service System for mobile payment.

    • 3) Added the Voice Access for Payment through Mobile Banking Service.

    • 4) Inaugurated the Cloud Payment HCE Card Service.

    • 5) Added functions of "User authentication procedures" and "QR Code scanned payment for cross-border online shopping" for the cross border online shopping (cross-border outward remittance) service.

  • b. Develop products up to date with social trends and provide diversified services to customers

    • 1) Teller operations have been simplified, and the automated name list scanning operations have been established for centralized domestic remittances.

    • 2) Added automated printed bank reply to reduce labor at branches from filling out the reply manually after the system has reviewed data related to the creation of pledge.

    • 3) Established the Account Opening Data Request List for branches to refer to and improve the accuracy of data requests made for account opening.

  • c. Established the "Innovative Finance Project Office" to strengthen

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the support for material loans of green finance, urban renewal, and cultural innovation industries.

  - 1) Urban renewal: In accordance with the urban renewal policies and accelerated reconstruction of hazardous and old buildings policies implemented by the government, the Bank promulgated the "Guidelines for Urban Renewal Loans" and "Regulations for Reconstruction of Hazardous and Old Buildings Loans." In 2019, the Bank had approved a total of 17 loans with a total loan amount of NT$14.517 billion and organized Urban Renewal Fair with the Wealth Magazine.

  - 2) Green finance: Promote the development of the green energy industry and establish an economic model with low carbon emission. The total credit balances as of the end of 2019 amounted to NT$59.822 billion.

  - 3) Cultural innovation industries: Strengthen the upgrade of cultural innovation industries and improve the industrial structure. The total loan balance as of the end of 2019 amounted to NT$26.417 billion.
  • d. Assisted in industry innovation and provided intangible asset financing To assist in the industry innovation, the Bank established the "Regulations for Financing and Loan on Intangible Assets with Revenue Mezzanine." Leveraging on the expertise of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in the valuation of intangible assets, the Bank referred to the professional valuation report provided by the Institute to determine the development potentials and market values of intangible assets in the future, and worked with the SMEG to provide higher credit guarantee loan ratio.

  • E. Expansion of the Scope of Channel Services

  • a. Make adjustments on the location distribution of the Bank's branches for the increase of value regarding physical channels, so as to provide better and more comprehensive financial services. The Chi Lin Branch reallocation was completed and re-opened on Jul. 29, 2019 and the branch was renamed as the East Lin Kou Branch.

  • b. To develop more diversified operations, the Bank had successfully engaged Yuanta Futures as its futures trader on Oct. 1, 2019, and added foreign futures trading auxiliary businesses as well as programs for the increase in commission allocation ratio, improvement in educational training, and business promotion incentives.

  • F. Information System Reinforcement and Information Security Promotion

  • a. Completed the update for the central billing mainframe to improve

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service capacities

  • 1) The Bank completed the update for the central billing mainframe to accelerate data accessing speed and system response time and continued to establish the SYSPLEX system with local HA.

  • 2) Simplified the accounting closing procedures of the Bank, which has significantly improved the operating efficiency of branches and minimized the time for accounting closing.

  • 3) Established a data center and continues to collect data from inside and outside of the Bank. The rapid data processing is provided for product design, risk analysis, and customer marketing.

  • 4) Continued to replace the software/hardware equipment for the e-banking to improve Internet transaction security.

  • 5) Completed the overseas core system database encryption mechanism, established the personal data terminal protection system and Intranet terminal equipment management system to reinforce the information security protection mechanism.

  • b. Reinforce the security control mechanism for the information system 1) Participated in Cyber Offensive and Defensive Exercise 2019 (CODE 2019) organized by National Information & Communication Security Taskforce, Executive Yuan held from Nov. 6 to 8, 2019.

  • 2) Completed the assessment on the information security of the Bank’s computer system in August 2019, according to the "Assessment Regulations for the Information Security of the Computer System of Financial Institutions."

  • 3) The Information Security Department and other relevant departments of the Bank formed the New York Branch 2019 Joint Financial Inspection Taskforce to help carry out the Part 500 compliance program in accordance with the network security regulations of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).

  • 4) Self-assessment was carried out in accordance with SWIFT Customer Security Program (CSP) specifications and was approved by SWIFT in December 2019.

  • c. Continuous promotion of the digital banking business

  • 1) Actively promoted the Taiwan Pay acquiring businesses, endeavored to increase the rate of QR Code adoption in common payment services by established merchants, such as large-scale chained stores, business area, and night markets, and organized marketing discount events to facilitate the inclusive

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finance and the penetration rate of e-payment.

  - 2) Strived to obtain business dealings regarding the ACH distribution of dividends on behalf of listed companies, cooperated with major hospitals to introduce medical payment machine, to provide customers with diversified payment collection on behalf/payment service, so as to increase fee income of digital banking business.

  - 3) Improve the interaction and attachment between the fans on Facebook with the page of the Bank, designed relevant events for the products launched by the Bank, and successfully attracted the mobile and Internet groups of all ages to participate in such events through Facebook as its online media.
  • G. Implementation of Legal Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering Operations

  • a. Implementation of legal compliance and anti-money laundering in line with the regulations of the competent authority

    • 1) On Mar. 26, 2019, the Bank promulgated its "Regulations for Legal Compliance, Anti-money Laundering, and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism for Overseas Branches" to regulate material managing matters including the function of relevant personnel, reporting system, reported matters, audit for departments and relevant personnel, educational training in overseas branches. The Bank will supervise the execution of its overseas branches for legal compliance, anti-money laundering, and combatting the financing of terrorism according to the Regulations on an ongoing basis.

    • 2) The Bank performed its compliance risk assessment (CRA) operation for 2018 and reported to the FSC for filings after being approved by the Board.

    • 3) With regards to anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism, the Bank performed its institutional risk assessment (IRA) operation for 2019 and reported to the FSC for filings after being approved by the Board.

  • b. Holding of regular compliance and anti-money laundering training

    • 1) Five Anti-Money Laundering & Combatting the Financing of Terrorism Seminars were held in Northern, Central, and Southern Taiwan from Apr. 16 to 23, 2019.

    • 2) A Compliance Officer Seminar was held in each the first and second halves of 2019.

  • c. Strengthening of the monitoring mechanism for compliance followup

According to the "Legal Compliance Follow-up Cases Control

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System," the letters regarding relevant laws and regulations from external parties and the changes in laws and regulations that the Bank shall comply with under the are included in "Legal Compliance Follow-up Cases" for control. The Bank compiles the subsequent implementation of "Legal Compliance Follow-up Cases" each month according to the competent authorities and reports to the legal compliance director of the Bank.

  • d. Carried out annual project audits for personal information protection, anti-money laundering, and combatting the financing of terrorism by accountants in accordance with the Implementation Rules of Internal Audit and Internal Control System of Financial Holding Companies and Banking Industries.

    • An accounting firm was commissioned to carry out the "2018 Project Audit for Personal Information Protection and the Internal Control System for Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism."
  • e. The Bank ranked top 20% for the Principle for Financial Service Industries to Treat Clients Fairly carried out by the FSC for the first time.

  • H. Corporate Social Responsibility

  • a. Active implementation of corporate social responsibility and realization of the value of the sustainable operation

    • 1) The Bank’s "CSR Report" passed two stages of verification by the British Standards Institution (BSI) for four consecutive years, and BSI issued the Bank an Independent Assurance Opinion Statement.

    • 2) The Bank received the Bronze Award in the financial and insurance group of corporate sustainability report division under the 12th TCSA Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards of 2019 organized by the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy, the Sustainability Performance Award from BSI Standards Awards, and was ranked the 49th in "2019 Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility" organized by the CommonWealth Magazine. Such achievements help upgrade the Bank's visibility and its corporate image for CSR implementation.

    • 3) The Bank continues to optimize the design of its website for the general public to obtain and understand the information on the corporate social responsibility of the Bank through the website of the Bank more conveniently, to effectively strengthening the communicating function of the Bank regarding corporate social responsibility.

  • b. Implementation of senior caring policy, donations to disadvantaged

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groups, and active participation in public benefit affairs

  • 1) The Bank has initiated the Project of Senior Dining & Learning Center Sponsorship. The Bank exclusively allocated 3‰ of the general card consumption from the Silver Love Credit Card issued by the Bank to help seniors to dine and learn together. This originated from the non-profit fund that was used in building a School for Seniors in the community to help take care of vulnerable seniors in the local community and improve their living standards.

  • 2) Set up senior caring spots to improve the standards of caring services at senior welfare agencies, providing local and appropriate caring services accessible to disadvantaged seniors. The Bank vigorously devotes in the public benefit affairs to achieve the goal of "aging in place."

  • 3) The Bank continued to promote property trust business for the senior and the disabled, recorded outstanding results for a consecutive three years, and received the award for recognition from the FSC.

  • c. Fulfilling responsibility for environmental protection and continue energy conservation and carbon reduction efforts

  • 1) The Environmental Protection Administration of the Executive Yuan and the Department of Environment Protection of the Taipei City Government cited the TBB eight years in a row for outstanding performance in green procurement.

  • 2) The Taipei City Government publicly cited the TBB for receiving ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems certification and the designation of its headquarters as an energy-savinglabel building.

  • 3) The Bank implemented its "Energy Policies" and "Measures for Water and Electricity Conservation" with scheduled follow-up on the status of water and electricity conservation by different units and inclusion of the results in business performance assessments. Various energy conservation improvement programs were vigorously implemented in order to enhance the energy efficiency of equipment and save on electricity costs.

(2) Budget Implementation

  • A. The annual average balance of deposits was NT$1,436.285 billion, for an achievement rate of 97.19%.

  • B. The annual average balance of loans outstanding was NT$1,129.913 billion, for an achievement rate of 97.75%.

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  • A. Net income for 2019 amounted to NT$22.838 billion; bad debt expense, commitment and provision for guaranteed liabilities totaled at NT$2.349 billion; operating expenses were NT$12.515 billion; before-tax net income from continuing operations was NT$7.974 billion; net profit after tax was NT$6.734 billion; return on assets ratio (after-tax) amounted to 0.40%; return on equity ratio (after-tax) amounted to 7.47%; net profit margin (after-tax) was 29.49%, and earnings per share (aftertax) was NT$0.98.

  • B. Net income before taxes (excluding provisions) in 2019 amounted to NT$10.324 billion, an increase of NT$491 million from 2018. NT$2.349 billion was allocated as an allowance for bad debts in order to strengthen risk appetite. Before-tax net profit for 2019 amounted to NT$7.974 billion, a decrease of NT$1.113 billion from 2019, primarily due to the increase in allowances for bad debts.

  • C. The non-performing loan ratio at the end of 2019 stood at 0.32%, an increase of 0.02% compared with the end of 2018; the bad-debt coverage ratio was 367.77%, a decrease of 26.31% over the end of 2018.

(4) Research and Development

  • A. Establishment of an Exclusive Unit for Industry Research

  • a. A total of 127 industry analysis reports were written and published in the Bank's E-Library in 2019 for colleagues to peruse.

  • b. Elite professionals from industry, government, and academia are invited to speak on an occasional basis to help the Bank's employees understand the latest trends in industrial development.

  • B. Encouragement of Innovation and Professionalism in Line with Business Development Needs

  • Business lectures are held on a scheduled basis and a wide variety of digital learning courses are offered to encourage employees to engage in further on-the-job studies and absorb new knowledge that will strengthen their competitiveness and enhance their professional know-how.

2. Business Plans for 2020

(1) Operating Directions and Policies

  • A. Strengthen the positioning and responsibility as a specialized bank for SMEs

  • a. Continue to promote the "Youngster first, seniors second, and startups third" program

    • Combine the core competencies of the Bank with concerning issues in society to integrate our business with social welfare. Implement the "Youngster first, seniors second, and start-ups third" program to help solve the problems of youth start-up and employment, promote senior financing and the acceleration of renewal for hazardous and

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old buildings, and support the development of innovation, creation, and start-up businesses.

  • b. Reinforce the "Micro-to-small Enterprises + Startups Double the Vital Source of Fund" project loans

    • Regarding the capital requirements for SMEs with a capital amount less than NT$30 million, the " Micro-to-small Enterprises + Startups Double the Vital Source of Fund " project loans was launched in

    • collaboration with the SMEG to assist SMEs in obtaining the capital required through the express pass mechanism with "active exploration, simplified procedures, rapid review, and audit incentives."

  • c. Promote Urban Renewal Finance 2.0

    • To solve two seniority issues (old buildings and aging population) and two insufficiency issues (land insufficiency and electricity insufficiency), the Bank will demonstrate its image of professional service, not only by combining the urban renewal with senior caring to improve housing security and realize the concept of nursing at home, but also integrating urban renewal for hazardous and old buildings with electricity-farming and energy-saving to encourage corporates to generate electricity for their own usage, solving the land and electricity insufficiencies among the five insufficiencies currently faced in Taiwan.
  • d. Enhance investment and counseling functions

    • Explore premium customers with the potential nature of invisible champions in different industries. Support the stable growth of industrial seedlings through the capital contribution from TBB Venture Capital Co., Ltd.; together with external counseling resources from SMEG and SMECF, the Bank will assist enterprises in improving their operating management capacities and counseling their transformation and upgrade.
  • B. Grasp the green business opportunities and fully promote green finance With the effect of climate change, it is estimated that the business opportunities of domestic green finance will amount to NT$1.8 trillion in the future. To grasp such business opportunities, the Bank will enhance its promotion in green finance to help enterprises develop the green energy industry; for example, utilizing the feature of abundant sunlight in Central and Southern Taiwan, help enterprises establish solar power generation system to achieve the goal of sustainable operations.

(2) Operating Policies

Facing the ever-changing financial environment and in response to the upsurge of FinTech and development of digital finance, the Bank will adhere to its core value of SME Specialized Bank and utilize the four aspects on its

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strategy map with a bottom-up approach, to enhance risk control and improve assets quality. Furthermore, in line with the aspects of learning & growth, internal procedures, customers, and finance, the Bank will establish a five-year strategy structure with specified directions and centralized resources for its departments by proposing the strategy structure to the Strategy Development Committee after being discussed by the Business Management Committee, so as to reinforce the adjustments in its three major structures of labor, channels, and capital. The Bank will achieve its goal of sustainable development by realizing our operating concept and become a premium bank with comprehensive financial services.

  • A. Learning & Growth

  • a. Improve the professional competencies of our employees: Establish a talent database through human resource inventory; deploy human resources of the entire Bank with plans; enhance cultivation of professional talent for SMEs, digital finance, and international finance; strengthen management and talent cultivation for critical posts.

  • b. Establish a successor scheme: Nurture key talents; establish a successor cultivation scheme; enhance the successor system; plan to cultivate successor candidates with potentials for the benefit of the Bank's sustainable operations.

  • c. Optimize the labor structure: Revitalize retired human resources to enhance the inheritance of experience; diversify employment channels; connect with the tertiary education sector for industryacademia cooperation; participate in the youth employment pilot program; recruit outstanding personnel to enrich the talent database of the Bank.

  • d. Improve the performance of information systems: Increase investment in IT building and integrate it closely with our business; enhance the overall efficiency of the information system; improve diversity and innovative capacities of our IT team; reinforce the cultivation and motivation of key IT personnel to lay a solid foundation for information technology.

  • e. Enhance cybersecurity defense and monitoring capacity: Establish the Bank's cybersecurity management system and maintenance plan; optimize the joint defense system; continue to organize its cybersecurity upgrade and improvement measures; enhance cybersecurity training to reinforce cybersecurity protection ability and realize cybersecurity compliance.

  • f. Optimize an accountability mechanism: Establish a comprehensive accountability mechanism and cultivate the culture of accountability to form the organization and value that allows our fellow colleagues

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to internalize it as their mission, vision, and core values, so as to strive toward the goal of the Bank's sustainable development.

  • g. Realize the corporate culture of learning and sharing: Build a "learning" experience inheritance system based on the concept of "learning by doing and doing by learning" and encourage internal innovation of young employees to invigorate corporate human resources.

  • B. Internal Procedures

  • a. Improve management by setting objectives: Establish goals and realize the execution, optimize the evaluation management system, reinforce the connection between evaluation, and rewards to boost performance.

  • b. Optimize the procedures for better efficiency: Establish smart customer services to improve service quality and optimize customer experiences; value the management for the internal and operating process, regularly examine the SOP for continuous creation of a better working process, and utilize the information system to assist in the manual examination, improving efficiency.

  • c. Enhance risk management: Improve asset quality and coverage for allowance for bad debts through understanding, managing and reducing risks, and enhancing risk control.

  • d. Adopt integrated marketing to increase customer contribution: Integrate marketing resources to increase dealings with customers, increase overall customer contribution, and provide comprehensive financial services according to the requirements for the business development of customers.

  • e. Provide premium services to build customer loyalty: Bear customers' interests in mind, design comprehensive financial services based on customers' requirements to meet their expectations and demands, thus, building customer loyalty.

  • f. Strengthen customer relationships with the second generation upon the succession of the family business: Strengthen the customer relationship with the younger generation or the second generation upon the succession of the family business to improve SME customers' support to the Bank after generational changes.

  • g. Differentiated products and marketing: Apply Big Data analysis to understand customer behavior patterns to provide customized services and precise marketing services.

  • h. Adhere to rigorous compliance: Enhance legal compliance and duly comply with the monitoring measures of the competent authorities; uphold provisions for anti-money laundering and combating the terrorism financing; implement whistle-blower protection and

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uphold customer interests; thereby forming a corporate culture that prioritizes legal compliance.

  • i. Strengthen corporate governance: Improve Directors' functions, corporate governance mechanisms, and operations of functional committees; disclose material information regarding corporate governance to improve transparency for information disclosure and shape the culture of corporate governance.

  • j. Fulfill corporate social responsibility: Attach importance to the ESG valuation; focus on the "Youngster first, seniors second, and startups third" program with our core business to promote the integration of corporates and society; and internalize the fulfillment of social responsibility as its corporate spirit.

  • C. Customers

  • a. Improve channel service quality and integrate customer views from all channels: Improve the value of physical channels; expand the service scope for virtual channels; enhance the control on business opportunities regarding clusters of SMEs to meet the mission of the Bank to provide services for SMEs; establish a data market with the cross-business omnidirectional single view of customers. This shall be done so as to fully present customer preferences and service channels, optimizing service and experiences for customers.

  • b. Focus on the niche market of SMEs and reinforce the brand image of a specialized bank: Specify positioning as an SME specialized bank and focus on the core business of SMEs; commit to policy financing such as micro-to-small enterprises, startups, urban renewal for hazardous and old buildings, intangible assets, and placemaking to shape the brand image of a specialized bank.

  • c. Enhance wealth management services and gain trust from customers: Focus on the three major keys—customization, segmentation, and digitization to deepen the wealth management services, satisfy customers' demand; undertake deep-rooted support for investment analysis in order to provide financial planning services for owners and high-asset customers.

  • D. Finance

  • A. Increase operating performance and take risk management into account: Expand operating scale, increase the profit margins of overseas branches, improve interest rates and diversify the income sources of service charges to enhance profitability.

  • B. Enhance capital and uphold shareholders' interests: Comply with the monitoring requirements of the competent authority regarding authorized capital; ensure a healthy capital structure and the goal of optimized resource allocation; strengthen the risk appetite to expand

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the growth of operating income; achieve the goal of maximized shareholders' value.

  • E. Enhance risk control and improve assets quality

  • Impacts arising from the outbreak of COVID-19 have extended across the manufacturing industry and the service industry; the effects on SMEs are relatively significant as they have lower tolerance for risks. As a specialized bank for SMEs, the Bank also suffer greater impacts as compared to general commercial banks. To minimize the impact of COVID-19, the Bank will strengthen the control on customers who suffered from greater impacts of COVID-19 (such as adjust credit limit in due course and increase the frequency of visits) and make adjustments to the industrial limit at any time to control risks effectively.

(3) Business Targets

To give equal weight to the protection of shareholder interests, improvement of the capital structure, and enhancement of asset quality, the Bank has set the following targets in consideration of the economic growth forecast of the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics for 2020.

  1. Annual average deposit balance: NT$1,473.750 billion.

  2. Annual average balance of loans outstanding: NT$1,188.073 billion.

  3. Total foreign exchange transactions: US$64.955 billion.

3. Results of Latest Credit Rating

Date of
Rating
Rating Institution Ratings Ratings Outlook
Long-term
Credit
Short-term
Credit
2020.1.13 Taiwan Ratings twAA- twA-1+ Stable
2020.1.13 Standard & Poor's BBB+ A-2 Stable

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Proposal II by the Board

Explanation: Adoption of the earnings distribution from final accounts of the Bank for 2019.

Description:

  1. After an audit, the earnings available for distribution of the Bank for 2019 was NT$5,185,142,299.24, and the description is set out below:

  2. (1) The opening undistributed earnings for 2019 was NT$356,940,304.77.

  3. (2) Items added:

    • A. Reversal of "recognized actuarial gains and losses for defined benefit plans" of NT$23,594,400.

    • B. "Gains and losses arising from disposals of investments in equity instruments designated at fair value through other comprehensive income": NT$52,427,832.

    • C. Reversed special reserve was NT$38,202,709:

      • a. Based on the requirements under the Letter Jinguan-zheng-fa-zi No. 1010012865 dated April 6, 2012, and the Letter Jin-guan-yin-fa-zi No. 10510001510 dated May 25, 2016, issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission.

      • b. As of December 31, 2018, the stated net deduction of other equity: The sum of "difference of foreign exchange in translating financial statements of foreign operating units" of -NT$862,865,585.21 and "unrealized gain or loss on financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income" of NT$4,541,167,789.08 is a positive number; therefore, no special reserve shall be provided. The employee job transfers or placement expenses of NT$38,202,709 provided in 2018 may be fully reversed.

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  - D. After reviewed and approved by Accountant TanTan Chung and Chun-Kuang Chen from KPMG, the after-tax net income for 2019 was NT$6,734,252,933.53.
  • (3) Items less:

    • Appropriated as legal reserve: NT$2,020,275,880.06.
  • (4) Distribution of shareholders' bonus - cash dividends (NT$0.20 per share): NT$1,426,396,849. The minimum distribution of cash dividend made to shareholders shall be round up to NT$1, and fraction cash dividend less than NT$1 shall be accounted as other income.

  • (5) Distribution of shareholders' bonus - stock dividends (NT$0.50 per share): NT$3,565,992,130.

  • (6) Closing undistributed earnings: NT$192,753,320.24.

  • Please refer to Page 50 of the Handbook for the "Disposition of Earnings for 2019" of the Bank.

Votin results: g

Number of
Votes by
Attending
Shareholders
For Against Void Abstain/
Did not vote
Counts Ratio
(%)
Counts Counts Counts
4,144,228,835 3,737,356,500
(3,227,118,431
votes therein
exercised the
voting rights
by electronic
means)
90.18 3,007,754
(2,994,058 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights
by electronic
means)
1,567,020 402,297,561
(400,836,740 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights
by electronic
means)

Resolution: The case was passed as proposed after voting.

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Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd. Disposition of Earnings 2019

Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd.
Disposition of Earnings
2019
Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd.
Disposition of Earnings
2019
Unit: NT$
Item Amount
Openingundistributed earnings 356,940,304.77
Add: Recognized actuarial gains and losses for defined
benefit plans
23,594,400.00
Add: Gains or losses arising from disposals of investments
in equity instruments designated at fair value through
other comprehensive income
52,427,832.00
Add: Reversed special reserve 38,202,709.00
Add: After-tax net income for 2019 6,734,252,933.53
Less: Appropriated as legal reserve (2,020,275,880.06)
Earnings available for distribution 5,185,142,299.24
Item of distribution:
Distribution of shareholders' bonus - cash dividends
(NT$0.20per share)
1,426,396,849.00
Distribution of shareholders' bonus - stock dividends
(NT$0.50per share)
3,565,992,130.00
Closingundistributed earnings 192,753,320.24

Note:

  • A. The calculation of shareholders' bonus per share was based on 7,131,984,244 shares.

  • B. The distribution shall initially be appropriated from the undistributed earnings in the latest year.

  • C. Conduct in accordance with the Order Jin-guan-zi No. 10510001510 issued by the Financial Supervisory Commission on May 25, 2016.

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V. Discussion Matters

Proposal I by the Board

Explanation: In response to the earnings distribution of stock dividends for 2019, the Bank intends to carry out a capital increase via transferred earnings for the issuance of new shares, hereby proposed for approval.

Description:

  1. In response to the requirements on the inclusion of common equity under the new Basel III to improve its capital structure, and in turns increase the profitability, the Bank intends to carry out a capital increase via transferred earnings for the issuance of 356,599,213 new shares according to the requirements under Article 240 of the Company Act.

  2. Total amount of the new shares for capital increase and the conditions for issuance:

  3. (1) A capital increase of NT$3,565,992,130 is proposed, with the par value of NT$10 per share, for the issuance of 356,599,213 new registered common shares.

  4. (2) The capital increase via transferred earnings shall be submitted to the competent authority for approval after being approved by the shareholders' meeting. The Board may otherwise determine the date of ex-rights for the allotment of new shares, and, based on the shareholding ratio stated in the Shareholders' registrar on the date of ex-rights, allot 50 shares for every thousand shares without compensation. Allotment of fraction shares less than one share; the shareholder may present at the stock affairs agency of the Bank within 5 days from the date of ex-rights for aggregation. A cash distribution may be paid for fraction shares less than one share upon aggregation (round up to NT$1); the Chairman may assign a specific person to subscribe for the overdue unaggregated number of fraction shares at the par value.

  5. (3) Subsequently, if the repurchase of Bank's shares, or the transfer, conversion, and cancellation of treasury stocks or otherwise affected the number of total issued shares, resulting in changes in share distribution rate of

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shareholders, hereby proposed to the shareholders' meeting to authorize the Board for handling the changes.

  • (4) The new shares issued under the capital increase via transferred earnings shall rank pari passu in all respects with the originally issued shares.

  • The proposed stock dividends have no effect on the operating performance and earnings per share of the Bank: According to the requirements under the "Regulations Governing the Publication of Financial Forecasts of Public Companies" and "Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Standards for Determining Whether a TWSE Listed Company Shall Publish Complete Financial Forecasts," the Bank has not made public disclosure regarding its financial forecast for 2020; therefore, the Bank is unable to estimate the forecast information concerning the effects of stock dividends proposed above on the revenue, profit or loss, and earning per share; the item is not applicable to the Bank.

  • After the capital increase, the total paid-in capital is NT$74,885,834,570, falling within the total capital of NT$80 billion of the Bank.

  • Hereby proposed to authorize full discretion to the Board for unaddressed matters regarding the proposal.

Voting Method: Proposals shall be discussed for voting on a case-by-case basis. Voting shall be carried out after finishing the discussion on the first, second and third proposals of the discussion matters.

Votin results: g

Votingresults:
Number of Votes
by Attending
Shareholders
For Against Void Abstain/
Did not vote
Counts Ratio
(%)
Counts Counts Counts
4,144,236,935 3,736,076,827
(3,226,644,333
votes therein
exercised the
voting rights by
electronic means)
90.15 3,907,533
(3,893,837 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights by
electronic means)
0 404,252,575
(400,411,059 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights
by electronic
means)

Resolution: The case was passed as proposed after voting.

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Proposal II by the Board

Explanation: Amendment to the Articles of Association of the Bank, hereby proposed for approval.

Description:

  1. In response to the amendments to the Company Act, the Bank intends to amend its Articles of Association, summarized as below:

  2. (1) As Article 162-1 of the Company Act was deleted and the Bank had adopted scripless stock issuance, amended the wording accordingly. (Article 6)

  3. (2) Added that shareholders continuously holding 50% or more of the total number of outstanding shares of the Bank for a period of three months or longer time may convene a special shareholders' meeting according to the requirements under Article 173-1 of the Company Act. (Article 12)

  4. (3) Amended partial wording according to requirements under Article 17 of the "Regulations Governing Procedure for Board of Directors Meetings of Public Companies." (Article 28 and 31)

  5. (4) Added the scope of authorization when the Managing Board executing the function of the Board of Directors according to requirements under Article 43 of the "Corporate Governance Best Practice Principles for Banks." (Article 30)

  6. For the "Comparison Table of the Drafted Amendment to Articles of Association" of the Bank, please refer to Page 54 ~ 57 of the Handbook.

Votin results: g

Votingresults:
Number of Votes
by Attending
Shareholders
For Against Void Abstain/
Did not vote
Counts Ratio
(%)
Counts Counts Counts
4,144,236,935 3,735,344,876
(3,225,912,382
votes therein
exercised the
voting rights by
electronic means)
90.13 3,090,426
(3,076,730 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights by
electronic means)
0 405,801,633
(401,960,117 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights
by electronic
means)

Resolution: The case was passed as proposed after voting.

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Comparison Table of the Drafted Amendment to Provisions of Articles of Association of Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd.

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Article 4
Except for otherwise required by the
competent authority for securities,
the Bank shall publish its
announcements on newspapers or e-
mail newsletter.

Article 4
The Bank shall make announcements on
the circulating daily newspaper where
the headquarters of the Bank locates or
in the manner prescribed by the
competent authority.

Amended according
to requirements
under Article 28 of
the Company Act.
Article 6
The Bank is exempted from printing
any share certificate for the shares
issued; however, the Bank shall
register the issued shares with a
centralized securities depository
enterprise, and shall be handled
according to the requirements of the
enterprise.


Article 6
The share certificates of the Bank are
registered and shall be issued after
being signed or stamped by three or
more directors according to the law.
When issuing new shares, the share
certificate shall be printed altogether
according to the number of total
issuances; however, the share
certificates shall be kept by a
centralized securities depository
enterprise.
The Bank is exempted from printing any
share certificate for the shares issued;
however, the Bank shall register the
issued shares with a centralized
securities depository enterprise.

1. Article 162-1 of
the Company Act
is deleted, and the
Bank had adopted
scripless share
issuance;
therefore, deleted
Paragraphs 1 and
2 of the Article.
2. The Bank has
fully adopted
scripless share
issuance;
therefore, in
accordance with
Paragraph 2 of
Article 161-2 of
the Company Act,
the Bank made
the amendment
that the Bank
shall register
according to
relevant
requirements of
the centralized
securities
depository
enterprise.
Article 12
Shareholders' meetings of the Bank
are categorized into annual
meetings and extraordinary
meetings. Annual meetings shall be
convened at least once a year, and it
shall be convened by the Board
according to the laws within 6
months after each accounting year.
Except for otherwise required by
the Company Act, extraordinary
meetings shall be convened bythe
Article 12
Shareholders' meetings of the Bank are
categorized into annual meetings and
extraordinary meetings. Annual
meetings shall be convened at least once
a year, and it shall be convened by the
Board according to the laws within 6
months after each accounting year.
Except for otherwise required by the
Company Act, extraordinary meetings
shall be convened by the Board when
necessary. Anyor aplural number of

Added and amended
partial wording
according to the
requirements under
Article 173-1 of the
Company Act.

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Board when necessary. Any or a
plural number of shareholder(s) of
who has (have) continuously held
3% or more of the total number of
outstanding shares for a period of
one year or longer time may, by
filing a written proposal setting
forth therein the subjects for
discussion and the reasons, request
the Board to call an extraordinary
meeting of shareholders. Any or a
plural number of shareholder(s) of
who has (have) continuously held
more than half (50%) of total issued
shares for a period of three months
may call upon an extraordinary
meeting.

shareholder(s) of who has (have)
continuously held 3% or more of the
total number of outstanding shares for a
period of one year or longer time may,
by filing a written proposal setting forth
therein the subjects for discussion and
the reasons, request the Board to call an
extraordinary meeting of shareholders.
Article 23
When investing in other companies,
except for otherwise required by the
Banking Act, the Bank shall not be
subject to the limit of 40% of the
Bank's paid-up capital regarding the
total investments in other
companies under Paragraph 2,
Article 13 of the CompanyAct.
Article 23
When investing in other companies,
except for otherwise required by the
Banking Act, the Bank shall not be
subject to the limit of 40% of the Bank's
paid-up capital regarding the total
investments in other companies under
Paragraph 1, Article 13 of the Company
Act.
Amended the quoted
provision according
to the requirements
under Article 13 of
the Company Act.
Article 25
A regular meeting of the Board shall
be held every two months. Shall
there be an emergency, or if the
majority of the Directors request so,
an extraordinary meeting may be
held. Except for otherwise required
by the Company Act, all meetings
shall be convened by the Chairman
in writing and may send out the
electronic notice upon receiving the
consent from the counterparty.
The Board shall establish the "Rules
of Procedures for Board Meeting"
and submit to the shareholders'
meeting, so as to improve the
operating efficiency and decision-
making abilities of the Board
meeting.
To reinforce the corporate
governance abilities, the Board may
establish functional committees and
the rules for exercising their
functions shall be separately
determined bythe Board.


Article 25
A regular meeting of the Board shall be
held every two months. Shall there be
an emergency, or if the majority of the
Directors request so, an extraordinary
meeting may be held. Except for
otherwise required by the Company Act,
all meetings shall be convened by the
Chairman in writing and shall send out
the notice via e-mail or fax.
The Board shall establish the "Rules of
Procedures for Board Meeting" and
submit to the shareholders' meeting, so
as to improve the operating efficiency
and decision-making abilities of the
Board meeting.
To reinforce the corporate governance
abilities, the Board may establish
functional committees and the rules for
exercising their functions shall be
separately determined by the Board.

Amended partial
wording according to
the requirements
under Article 204 of
the Company Act.

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Article 28
A minute book shall be prepared for
the discussions at Board meetings,
and the minute book shall be
dispatched to all Directors within 20
days from the meeting after being
signed by or affixed seal by the
Chairman of the meeting and the
recorder. The minute book shall set
out the year, month, date, name of
the Chairman, resolution method,
the summary of the discussion
process, and its results, and shall be
permanently preserved throughout
the existence of the Bank. The sign-
in book of the attending Directors
and the power of attorney for
engaging proxies shall be
permanently preserved throughout
the existence of the Bank.

Article 28
A minute book shall be prepared for the
discussions at Board meetings, and the
minute book shall be dispatched to all
Directors within 20 days from the
meeting after being signed by or affixed
seal by the Chairman. The minute book
shall set out the year, month, date, name
of the Chairman, resolution method, the
summary of the discussion process, and
its results, and shall be permanently
preserved throughout the existence of
the Bank. The sign-in book of the
attending Directors and the power of
attorney for engaging proxies shall be
kept for a least a year.
Amended partial
wording according to
requirements under
Article 17 of the
"Regulations
Governing Procedure
for Board of
Directors Meetings
of Public
Companies."
Article 30
During the recess of the Board, the
Managing Directors shall regularly
exercise the power and authority of
the Board in accordance with the
laws and regulations, the Articles of
Association, and the resolutions
adopted by the shareholders'
meetings and the Board, and the
Board meetings to be called from
time to time by the Chairman; such
meetings shall be chaired by the
Chairman.
The scope of power and authority of
the Board exercised by the
Managing Board mentioned in the
previous Paragraph refer to matters
other than the significant matters
required to be considered by the
shareholders' meeting or submitted
to the Board meeting for discussion
according to the laws and articles of
association or prescribed by the
competent authority, and the
determination of business scope
other than the Bank's Articles of
Association, overall operating
strategies, significant policies, or
significant risk management.
When the Chairman is unable to
present himself/herself,the

Article 30
During the recess of the Board, the
Managing Directors shall regularly
exercise the power and authority of the
Board in accordance with the laws and
regulations, the Articles of Association,
and the resolutions adopted by the
shareholders' meetings and the Board,
and the Board meetings to be called
from time to time by the Chairman; such
meetings shall be chaired by the
Chairman.
When the Chairman is unable to present
himself/herself, the Chairman shall
designate a Managing Director as the
proxy. When there is no designation
made, a Managing Director shall be
elected among themselves.

Added the scope of
authorization when
the Managing Board
executing the
function of the Board
of Directors
according to
requirements under
Article 43 of the
"Corporate
Governance Best
Practice Principles
for Banks."

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Chairman shall designate a
Managing Director as the proxy.
When there is no designation made,
a Managing Director shall be
elected amongthemselves.
Article 31
For a resolution at the Managing
Directors meeting, except for
otherwise required by the Company
Act, the resolution shall receive the
consent from the majority of the
attending Managing Directors at the
meeting attended by the majority of
Managing Directors. The minute
book shall be signed or affixed seal
by the Chairman of the meeting and
the recorder.
Article 31
For a resolution at the Managing
Directors meeting, except for otherwise
required by the Company Act, the
resolution shall receive the consent from
the majority of the attending Managing
Directors at the meeting attended by the
majority of Managing Directors. The
minute book shall be signed or affixed
seal by the Chairman.

Amended partial
wording according to
requirements under
Article 17 of the
"Regulations
Governing Procedure
for Board of
Directors Meetings
of Public
Companies."

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Proposal III by the Board

Explanation: Amendment to the Rules of Procedures for Shareholders' Meeting of the Bank, hereby proposed for approval.

Description:

  1. To improve our corporate governance and comply with the "Sample Template for XXX Co., Ltd. Rules of Procedure for Board of Directors Meetings" (the "Sample Template") promulgated by Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, the Bank, therefore, amended its "Rules of Procedures for Shareholders' Meeting."

  2. The key amendments are summarized as follow:

  3. (1) To establish a strong governance system and sound supervisory capabilities for the Bank's shareholders' meetings, and to strengthen management capabilities, the Bank amended the purpose of establishing such Rules. (Article 1)

  4. (2) Added that a shareholders' meetings convened by the Board shall be attended by a majority of the Directors and at least one member of each functional committee on behalf of the committee. The attendance shall be recorded in the meeting minutes. (Article 8)

  5. (3) Deleted the requirements which specify that the proposal is passed when none voiced an objection, and stated that a vote shall be performed for each proposal and the results for each proposal shall be entered into the MOPS with reference to the mentioned Sample Template. (Paragraph 1, Article 10)

  6. (4) Added that with respect to resolutions of shareholders' meetings, the number of shares held by a shareholder with no voting rights shall not be calculated as part of the total number of issued shares. (Paragraph 3, Article 10)

  7. (5) When a shareholder is an interested party in relation to an agenda item, and there is the likelihood that such a relationship would prejudice the interests of the Bank, the shareholder may not vote on the item, and the number of shares for which voting rights may not be

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exercised shall not be calculated as part of the voting rights represented by attending shareholders. (Paragraph 10, Article 10)

  1. For the "Comparison Table of the Drafted Amendment to Rules of Procedures for Shareholders' Meeting" of the Bank, please refer to Page 60 ~ 65 of the Handbook.

Votin results: g

Number of Votes
by Attending
Shareholders
For Against Void Abstain/
Did not vote
Counts Ratio
(%)
Counts Counts Counts
4,144,236,935 3,735,820,325
(3,226,387,831
votes therein
exercised the
voting rights by
electronic means)
90.14 3,114,369
(3,100,673 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights by
electronic means)
0 405,302,241
(401,460,725 votes
therein exercised
the voting rights
by electronic
means)

Resolution: The case was passed as proposed after voting.

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Comparison Table of the Drafted Amendment to Rules of Procedures for Shareholders' Meeting of Taiwan Business Bank Co., Ltd.

Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Article 1 (Purpose and applying
principle)
To establish a strong governance
system and sound supervisory
capabilities for the Bank's
shareholders' meetings, and to
strengthen management capabilities,
the Bank established the Rules for
compliance.
Except for otherwise required by the
laws and regulations as well as the
Articles of Association of the Bank,
the rules of procedures for
shareholders' meeting of the Bank shall
be subject to the Rules.

Article 1 (Applying principle)
Except for otherwise required by the
laws and regulations as well as the
Articles of Association of the Bank,
matters related to the shareholders'
meeting of the Bank shall be subject to
the Rules.
1. Added the
purpose in
Paragraph 1.
2. Amended the
wording of
Paragraph 2
according to the
name of the
regulations.
Article 3 (Preparation for documents
such as the sign-in book)
The Bank shall set out registration
time, registration location, and other
notes for shareholders in the letter of
advice for the meeting.
The registration time for shareholders
in the previous Paragraph shall be at
least 30 minutes prior to the beginning
of the meeting. The registration
location shall have clear signs as well
as enough and eligible personnel for
registration.
The Bank shall prepare the sign-in
book for attending shareholders or
proxies of shareholders to sign-in, or
use sign-in cards from the shareholders
or proxies of shareholders to substitute
signing in.
The Bank shall deliver the meeting
handbook, annual report, attendance
card, speech slip, voting ticket, and
supplemental information of the
meeting to the shareholders or proxies
of shareholders attending the
shareholders' meeting. Election tickets
shall be otherwise enclosed when there
is an election involved.
Shareholders or proxies of
shareholders shall attend the
shareholders' meeting with the
presence of the attendance card,sign-


Article 3 (Preparation for documents
such as the sign-in book)
The Bank shall set out registration
time, registration location, and other
notes for shareholders in the letter of
advice for the meeting.
The registration time for shareholders
in the previous Paragraph shall be at
least 30 minutes prior to the beginning
of the meeting. The registration
location shall have clear signs as well
as enough and eligible personnel for
registration.
The Bank shall prepare the sign-in
book for attending shareholders or
proxies of shareholders to sign-in, or
use sign-in cards from the shareholders
or proxies of shareholders to substitute
signing in.
The Bank shall deliver the meeting
handbook, annual report, attendance
card, speech slip, voting ticket, and
supplemental information of the
meeting to the shareholders or proxies
of shareholders attending the
shareholders' meeting. Election tickets
shall be otherwise enclosed when there
is an election involved.
Shareholders or proxies of
shareholders shall attend the
shareholders' meeting with the
presence of the attendance card,sign-


Added Paragraph 6,
moved the current
Paragraph 6 of
Article 9 to this
Article, and
amended wording
with reference to
Paragraph 6, Article
6 of the "Sample
Template for XXX
Co., Ltd. Rules of
Procedure for
Board of Directors
Meetings" (the
"Sample
Template").

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
in card, or other attendance
certificates. The solicitors for soliciting
proxies shall bring the identity
document for verification.
When the government or a juristic
person is a shareholder, it may be
represented by more than one
representative at a shareholders'
meeting. When a juristic person has
been delegated to attend the
shareholders' meeting, only one person
should be delegated as theproxy.

in card, or other attendance
certificates. The solicitors for soliciting
proxies shall bring the identity
document for verification.
Article 8 (Chairman and attending
personnel at the shareholders' meeting)
Where a shareholders' meeting is
convened by the Board, the meeting
shall be chaired by the Chairman.
When the Chairman is on leave or for
any reason unable to exercise the
powers, the Chairman shall designate a
Managing Director as the proxy. When
there is no designation made, a
Managing Director shall be elected
among themselves.
Where the Director is represented by a
Managing Director, the Managing
Director shall have been a Managing
Director for more than six months and
shall have in-depth knowledge
regarding the financial and business
condition of the Bank.
A shareholders' meetings convened by
the Board shall be attended by a
majority of the Directors and at least
one member of each functional
committee on behalf of the committee.
The attendance shall be recorded in the
meeting minutes.
Where a shareholders' meeting is
convened by other conveners entitled
to calling the meeting other than the
Board, the meeting shall be chaired by
the convener. Where there are two or
more conveners, one of the conveners
shall be elected among themselves.
The lawyer, accountant, or relevant
personnel engaged by the Bank may
attend the shareholders' meeting.




Article 8 (Chairman and attending
personnel at the shareholders' meeting)
Where a shareholders' meeting is
convened by the Board, the meeting
shall be chaired by the Chairman.
When the Chairman is unable to
present himself/herself, the Chairman
shall designate a Managing Director as
the proxy. When there is no
designation made, a Managing
Director shall be elected among
themselves.
Where the Director is represented by a
Managing Director, the Managing
Director shall have been a Managing
Director for more than six months and
shall have in-depth knowledge
regarding the financial and business
condition of the Bank.
Where a shareholders' meeting is
convened by other conveners entitled
to calling the meeting other than the
Board, the meeting shall be chaired by
the convener. Where there are two or
more conveners, one of the conveners
will be elected among themselves.
The lawyer, accountant, or relevant
personnel engaged by the Bank may
attend the shareholders' meeting.
The meeting staff organizing the
shareholders' meeting shall wear the
identification card or armband.

1. Amended the
wording
according to
Paragraph 1,
Article 7 of the
aforementioned
Sample
Template.
2. Added
Paragraph 3 to
improve our
corporate
governance.
3. Changed the
sequence and
amended
wording of the
remaining
Paragraphs.
4. Move the
current
Paragraph 5 of
the Article to
Paragraph 1,
Article 11.

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
Article 9 (Speech of shareholders)
Before the speech, the attending
shareholders shall complete the speech
slip and state the purpose of such
speech, shareholders account number
(or attendance card number) and
account name; the Chairman may
determine the speech order.
Attending shareholders who submitted
the speech slip without giving the
speech shall be deemed as having
provided no speech. Where the speech
content deviates from the speech slip,
the speech content shall prevail.
During the speech of an attending
shareholder, except for receiving the
consent from the Chairman and the
speaking shareholder, other
shareholders shall not speak out and
interrupt. The Chairman shall stop
such shareholders who violate the
requirement.
Without consent from the Chairman,
each shareholder shall not speak more
than two times regarding the same
proposal, and each time shall not
exceed five minutes.
Where the speech of a shareholder
violates the requirement in the
previous Paragraph, the Chairman may
stop the speech.
When a corporate shareholder assigned
more than two representatives to attend
the shareholders' meeting, only one
person may give a speech regarding
the same proposals.
After the speech of an attending
shareholder, the Chairman may, in
person or designate relevant personnel
to, respond.



Article 9 (Speech of Shareholders)
Before the speech, the attending
shareholders shall complete the speech
slip and state the purpose of such
speech, shareholders account number
(or attendance card number) and
account name; the Chairman may
determine the speech order.
Attending shareholders who submitted
the speech slip without giving the
speech shall be deemed as having
provided no speech. Where the speech
content deviates from the speech slip,
the speech content shall prevail.
During the speech of an attending
shareholder, except for receiving the
consent from the Chairman and the
speaking shareholder, other
shareholders shall not speak out and
interrupt. The Chairman shall stop
such shareholders who violate the
requirement.
Without consent from the Chairman,
each shareholder shall not speak more
than two times regarding the same
proposal, and each time shall not
exceed five minutes.
Where the speech of a shareholder
violates the requirement in the
previous Paragraph, the Chairman may
stop the speech.
Where a corporation is engaged to
attend the shareholders' meeting, the
corporation may only assign one
person as the representative to attend.
When a corporate shareholder assigned
more than two representatives to attend
the shareholders' meeting, only one
person may give a speech regarding
the same proposals.
After the speech of an attending
shareholder, the Chairman may, in
person or designate relevant personnel
to,respond.



1. Moved the
current
Paragraph 6 of
the Article to
Paragraph 6,
Article 3.
2. Changed
sequence of the
remaining
Paragraphs.
Article 10 (Ballot, scrutinize balloting,
and abstaining system for related
parties)
Except for otherwise required by the
Company Act and Articles of
Association, the ballot for a proposal
shall be approved bythe attending
Article 10 (Ballot, scrutinize balloting,
and abstaining system for related
parties)
Except for otherwise required by the
Company Act and Articles of
Association, the ballot for a proposal
shall be approved bythe attending
1. To improve our
corporate
governance,
deleted the
requirements
related to the
proposal is

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
shareholders who represent half of the
voting rights. At the time of a vote, for
each proposal, the Chairman or a
person designated by the Chairman
shall first announce the total number of
voting rights represented by the
attending shareholders, followed by a
poll of the shareholders. After the
conclusion of the meeting, on the same
day it is held, the results for each
proposal, based on the numbers of
votes for and against and the number
of abstentions, shall be entered into the
MOPS.
A shareholder shall be entitled to one
vote for each share held, except when
the shares are deemed as non-voting
shares under Article 179-2 of the
Company Act.
For the resolutions of the shareholders'
meeting, the number of shares of the
non-voting shareholders is not
included in the total number of issued
shares.
Except for otherwise required by the
law, regarding the proxy engaged by
the shareholder for attending the
shareholders' meeting, when one proxy
is engaged by two or more
shareholders, the voting right of such
proxy shall not exceed 3% of the
number of total issued shares. In the
case of exceeding 3%, the exceeding
portion of voting rights will not be
counted.
For the convening of the Bank's
shareholders' meeting, the electronic
method shall be deemed as one of the
exercising channels for voting rights;
also, the written method shall also be
adopted for exercising voting rights.
The exercising method shall be set out
in the convening notice for
shareholders' meeting. Shareholders
who exercise their voting rights via
written or electronic methods shall be
deemed as attending the shareholders'
meeting in person. However, they shall
be deemed as abstaining from the
extempore motions and the amendment
on the originalproposal at the






shareholders who represent half of the
voting rights. During which, where
there is no objection upon the inquiry
of the Chairman, the ballot shall be
deemed as the passing by the majority,
and its efficacy shall rank the same as
a vote by poll.
A shareholder is entitled to one vote
with each share held.
Except for otherwise required by the
Company Act, regarding the proxy
engaged by the shareholder for
attending the shareholders' meeting,
when one proxy is engaged by two or
more shareholders, the voting right of
such proxy shall not exceed 3% of the
number of total issued shares. In the
case of exceeding 3%, the exceeding
portion of voting rights will not be
counted.
For the convening of the Bank's
shareholders' meeting, the electronic
method shall be deemed as one of the
exercising channels for voting rights;
also, the written method shall also be
adopted for exercising voting rights.
The exercising method shall be set out
in the convening notice for
shareholders' meeting. Shareholders
who exercise their voting rights via
written or electronic methods shall be
deemed as attending the shareholders'
meeting in person. However, they shall
be deemed as abstaining from the
extempore motions and the amendment
on the originalproposal at the


passed when
none voiced an
objection in
Paragraph 1 and
stated that a
vote shall be
performed for
each proposal
and the results
for each
proposal shall
be entered into
the MOPS with
reference to the
Paragraph 5,
Article 13 of the
mentioned
Sample
Template.
2. Added the
precondition
that a
shareholder
shall be entitled
to one vote for
each share held
in Paragraph 2
according to
Article 179 of
the Company
Act and with
reference to
Paragraph 1,
Article 13 of the
mentioned
Sample
Template.
3. Added
Paragraph 3 and
stated that the
number of
shares of the
non-voting
shareholders is
not included in
the total number
of issued shares
with reference
to Paragraph 2,
Article 12 of the
mentioned

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
shareholders' meeting.
Shareholders who exercised their
voting rights via written or electronic
methods as set out in the previous
Paragraph, such shareholders shall
deliver their instruction to the Bank
two days prior to the convening of the
shareholders' meeting. Shall there be
duplicate instructions, the instruction
delivered earlier shall prevail.
However, where the shareholder
declared to cancel the previous
instruction shall not be subject to the
requirements.
After shareholders exercised their
voting rights via written or electronic
methods, if such shareholders wish to
attend the shareholders' meeting in
person, they shall cancel the
instruction for exercising their voting
rights in the previous Paragraph in the
same manner adopted for exercising
their voting rights two days before the
convening of the shareholders'
meeting. For canceling made after the
past due, the voting right exercised via
written or electronic methods shall
prevail. Where shareholders exercised
their voting rights via written or
electronic methods and engaged
proxies for attending the shareholders'
meeting with power of attorney, the
voting right exercised by the attending
proxies shall prevail.
Shall there be revision or substitute for
the same proposal, the Chairman shall
combine such revision or substitute to
the original proposal and determine the
voting sequence. If any of the
proposals are deemed obsolete, the
other proposals shall be deemed as
being rejected, and exempted from the
vote.
Where a shareholder has personal
interests in the matter of the meeting
that may endanger the interests of the
Bank, the shareholder shall not
participate in the ballot, and shall not
exercise voting rights on behalf of
other shareholders.
The number of shares for which voting

shareholders' meeting.
Shareholders who exercised their
voting rights via written or electronic
methods as set out in the previous
Paragraph, such shareholders shall
deliver their instruction to the Bank
two days prior to the convening of the
shareholders' meeting. Shall there be
duplicate instructions, the instruction
delivered earlier shall prevail.
However, where the shareholder
declared to cancel the previous
instruction shall not be subject to the
requirements.
After shareholders exercised their
voting rights via written or electronic
methods, if such shareholders wish to
attend the shareholders' meeting in
person, they shall cancel the
instruction for exercising their voting
rights in the previous Paragraph in the
same manner adopted for exercising
their voting rights no later than two
days before the convening of the
shareholders' meeting. For canceling
made after the past due, the voting
right exercised via written or electronic
methods shall prevail. Where
shareholders exercised their voting
rights via written or electronic methods
and engaged proxies for attending the
shareholders' meeting with power of
attorney, the voting right exercised by
the attending proxies shall prevail.
Shall there be revision or substitute for
the same proposal, the Chairman shall
combine such revision or substitute to
the original proposal and determine the
voting sequence. If any of the
proposals are deemed obsolete, the
other proposals shall be deemed as
being rejected, and exempted from the
vote.
Where a shareholder has personal
interests in the matter of the meeting
that may endanger the interests of the
Bank, the shareholder shall not
participate in the ballot, and shall not
exercise voting rights on behalf of
other shareholders.
The scrutineers and counting personnel




Sample
Template.
4. Amended the
wording of
Paragraph 4
according to
Article 177 of
the Company
Act.
5. Added
Paragraph 10
and stated that
when a
shareholder is
an interested
party in any
item of the
agenda, and
there is the
likelihood that
such a conflict
of interest
would prejudice
the shareholder,
and the number
of shares for
which voting
rights may not
be exercised
shall not be
calculated as
part of the
voting rights
represented by
attending
shareholders
with reference
to Paragraph 4,
Article 12 of the
mentioned
Sample
Template.
6. Amended the
wording of
Paragraphs 7
and 9.
7. Changed the
sequence of the
remaining
Paragraphs.

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Amended Provisions Current Provisions Description
rights may not be exercised under the
preceding Paragraph shall not be
calculated as part of the voting rights
represented by attending shareholders
The scrutineers and counting personnel
for the ballot of the proposal shall be
designated by the Chairman, but the
scrutineers shall be shareholders. The
ballot or the counting process for
elective proposals shall be carried out
publicly at the venue of the
shareholders' meeting. Also, upon the
completion of counting, the results of
the ballot shall be announced at the
scene, including the statistical number
of votes, and made a record
accordingly.

for the ballot of the proposal shall be
designated by the Chairman, but the
scrutineers shall be shareholders. The
ballot or the counting process for
elective proposals shall be carried out
publicly at the venue of the
shareholders' meeting. Also, upon the
completion of counting, the results of
the ballot shall be announced at the
scene, including the statistical number
of votes, and made a record
accordingly.
Article 11 (Maintain the order of the
meeting venue)
The meeting staff organizing the
shareholders' meeting shall wear the
identification card or armband.
The Chairman may instruct
disciplinary officers or security
personnel to help keep the order of the
meeting. Disciplinary officers or
security personnel shall wear armbands
or have identification card with
"Disciplinary Officer" texts when help
keep the order of the meeting.
For meeting venue equipped with an
amplification system, the Chairman
may stop the speech of a shareholder
who fails to use the system prepared
by the Bank.
Where a shareholder violates the Rules
of Procedures and disagrees with the
correction from the Chairman, or
obstructs the meeting process and fails
to obey after being stopped, the
Chairman may instruct disciplinary
officers or security personnel to escort
the shareholder leaving the meeting
venue.


Article 11 (Maintain the order of the
meeting venue)
The Chairman may instruct
disciplinary officers (or security
personnel) to help keep the order of the
meeting. Disciplinary officers (or
security personnel) shall wear
armbands with "Disciplinary Officer"
texts when help keep the order of the
meeting.
For meeting venue equipped with an
amplification system, the Chairman
may stop the speech of a shareholder
who fails to use the system prepared
by the Bank.
Where a shareholder violates the Rules
of Procedures and disagrees with the
correction from the Chairman, or
obstructs the meeting process and fails
to obey after being stopped, the
Chairman may instruct disciplinary
officers (or security personnel) to escor
the shareholder leaving the meeting
venue.


t
1. Added
Paragraph 1 by
moving the
current
Paragraph 5 of
Article 8 to this
Article.
2. Amended
wording with
reference to
Paragraph 2,
Article 17 of the
mentioned
Sample
Template.

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VI. Questions and Motions

Chung Hsin Leisure Life Development Business Co., Ltd. (Shareholder No. 257987) made a statement about the Bank's financial relief measures in response to the economic downturn caused by the COVID19 pandemic.

The shareholder (Shareholder No. 10973) made a statement about the management of the Human Resources Department regarding the Bank's regulations governing civil and criminal cases.

The Chairman and the relevant personnel have addressed the above statements.

The shareholder (Shareholder No. 6278) proposed the meeting adjourned.

The Chairman declared the meeting adjourned.

VII. Meeting Adjourned (10:16 a.m.)

Chairman: Bor-Yi Huang

Record Keeping: Hui-Juan Wu

The meeting minutes of the shareholders' meeting only set out the summary of discussions; the details shall be subject to the meeting's video/audio records.

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