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ABSTRACT
In 1974, Chinatrust Commercial bank issued the first credit card (charge card) in Taiwan, and in 1993, the credit card market was fully opened. After 30 years, Taiwan has become one of the fastest growing markets of credit card business. Having as much as 51 card issuing institutions, both local and foreign banks, new and old, they all use any kinds of promotional activities to gain position in the market. Cutthroat competition has become one of the features in Taiwan. The main purposes of this research are: 1. For the 51 card issuers, which are the ones who have opportunities to stay in the market? 2. In situation where issuers only have a small portfolio or operating at deficit, they will be forced to exit the market or to be merged. When merged, one single company may lessen the credit line given to the customer, leading to credit shrinkage on the side of the customer. 3. In view of the inflation and the burst of bubble economy that happened to South Korea credit card issuers in just a few years, will Taiwan face the same card monetary crisis caused by the domino effect produced by the strong control of Taiwan authority? This essay is about the research based on the prior affairs and financial information statistics of each card issuers published by the Ministry of Finance. The analysis is based on the asset dimensions and operating results of these card issuers. Besides, it also discusses the strategic positioning about different populations in the market. There are 19 indexes concerning the asset dimensions and operating results of the sellers. The analytical tool used for this study was Spss. To reduce dimension and explain more clearly, I use principle component analysis of factor analysis to condense and assemble primary ingredient factor. As a result, there are 4 main factors chosen. Then I do cluster analysis in Ward’s Method of agglomerative to get the number of the group and figure out the cluster centers of each group. Next, I put the center of each groups as initial cluster centers into K-means to regroup. After the two-step grouping, it reveals that the result will be more remarkable if dividing into 5 groups. The consequences of this research are as follows: 1. The ones with the economical scale will continue to stay in the market. The observable standard is millions of available cards. The card issuers who meet this standard are those in the third group: Chinatrust Bank, Taishin International Bank, Cathay United Bank, E.Sun Bank, Taipei Fubon Bank, Union Bank, and Citibank, a total of 7. 2. According to the research report about card debt published by Visa, in Taiwan, there are only 44 dollars will become card debt in per 100 consumptions. The percentage of credit interests in Taiwan is much lower than those in other countries in Asia Pacific. This shows Taiwan is still within the acceptable range, and is under control. 3. The average personal/familial debt to GDP ratio in Taiwan is not high. Unlike the circumstance in Korea, the Taiwan credit card market is healthy and has potential.。
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