Taiwan’s financial holding groups held more than a third of their overseas exposure in the United States at September’s end, extending that market’s long-standing lead over other destinations.
U.S. exposure reached NT$11.7568 trillion, or 35.59% of the overseas total, figures from Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) show. The United States has ranked first among the groups’ overseas markets for 46 consecutive quarters.
Total exposure stood at NT$33.0373 trillion at the end of September 2026, up 16.35% from a year earlier and 4.95% from the end of June. The FSC’s September 2025 table recorded a year-earlier total of NT$28.394282 trillion.
Net investments accounted for NT$23.69 trillion, or 71.7%, of the September 2026 total. Net loans contributed about NT$7.1 trillion, or 21.5%, while interbank placements made up about NT$2.2 trillion, or 6.7%. The FSC includes all three categories in its measure of overseas exposure.
China ranked second among the markets, with NT$1.9996 trillion in exposure, equal to 6.05% of the total. Japan was third at NT$1.8543 trillion. Its exposure grew 44.89% from a year earlier, the largest increase among the 10 biggest overseas markets.
Singapore ranked 10th with NT$693 billion. CNA reported that it had last appeared in the top 10 in 2015. CNA also noted that exchange-rate movements can affect the New Taiwan dollar value of the reported exposure.
The FSC updates its market-by-market dataset every three months.
