Cathay Financial Holding

Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services in Taiwan, rest of Asia, and internationally. The company operates through five segments: Banking, Life Insurance, Property Insurance, Securities, and Other segments. It offers banking, foreign exchange, guarantee, foreign exchange investment and consulting, trust, overseas financial, and other financial services. The company also provides traditional, investment, and interest rate variable annuities; various insurance products, such as fire, marine, land and air, liability, guarantee, and other insurance products, as well as reinsurance; and financial planning services, life insurance, and policy lending services. In addition, it offers securities brokerage, proprietary and underwriting, and security financial services, as well as other financial products, and commodity research and development services. Further, the company provides real estate investment and management, real estate leasing, asset management, fund management, and risk management software, as well as securities, banking, and investment advisory services; engages in private equity and futures business; and invests in start-ups. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Taipei City, Taiwan.

Cathay United Bank was formerly the United World Chinese Commercial Bank , which was founded in 1975.

In 2003, UWCCB was merged with the former Cathay Commercial Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Financial Holding Company; UWCCB was the surviving bank but the merged bank was renamed to Cathay United Bank.

In September 2012 Cathay United Bank with the National Bank of Cambodia's approval, acquired a 70% stake in Singapore Banking Corporation . SBC was founded in 1993 and has 6 branches and 10 exchange offices in Cambodia. A year later in September 2013, Cathay United Bank reached an agreement with the remaining shareholders of SBC to acquire the remaining 30% shares. In January 2014, the name was changed to Cathay United Bank Cambodia .

To expand its banking operations in Asia, in December 2014, CUB through its sister company and life insurance arm of Cathay Financial Holding, Cathay Life Insurance, acquired a 22% share of Philippines' Rizal Commercial Banking Corp . RCBC is owned by the Yuchengco Group and is the country's eighth largest lender with a consolidated branch network of over 430 branches. Rizal Commercial Banking Corp is connected with the $81m Bangladesh Bank heist. As a result, the bank's president resigned in May 2016.In January 2015, Cathay Life Insurance announced a plan to acquire 40% of Indonesia's PT Bank Mayapada for approximately US$272 million. Bank Mayapada, founded in 1989, is a mid-sized commercial bank focused on corporate lending with 175 branches and offices and owned by Indonesian billionaire Dato Sri Tahir.

In May 2017, Cathay United Bank and its sister company Cathay Life agreed to purchase the Bank of Nova Scotia Berhad Malaysia from Scotiabank. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval by Bank Negara Malaysia.