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After the legislation of the Financial Holding Company Act in year 2001, sixteen financial holding companies were established in Taiwan one after another. By forming the financial holding companies, financial institutes were expected to increase the competitiveness by adopting the existing brand position and channel to rapidly increase the market share, enlarge the operation scale with diversification and institutionalization, speed the business execution, and enhance operation efficiency with collaboration.
In this research, First Financial Holding Co, Ltd. was taken as a case study to investigate if the positive influences exist by the integration of the subsidiaries after the financial holding company was established. The major conclusions are as follows:
(1) By adopting the financial ratio analysis approach on analyzing the performance of First Financial Holding Co, Ltd., the profitability index, operating capability index, debt solvency index and growth capability index were addressed. The results show that growth capability index and profitability index reflected an equivalent book value per share after the financial holding company was formed, while rest of the indexes performed better.
(2) To evaluate the influence of the integration of the subsidiaries by analyzing the return on assets( ROA), return on equity(ROE), and profitability of First Financial Holding Co, Ltd., the performance of the First Commercial Bank is stable while other subsidiaries performed relatively unstable.
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