Financial Supervisory Commission
FSC Taiwan · Taiwan · Established 2004
Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC Taiwan) is the financial regulator of Taiwan, established 2004. It caps retail leverage at 1:20, requires negative balance protection and segregated client funds, and compensates clients up to TWD 3,000,000 if a firm fails.
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What this licence gets you
The rules a firm has to follow to keep this licence. A dash means we hold no answer on file, which is not the same as a no.
- Maximum leverage, retail
- 1:20
- Maximum leverage, professional
- 1:50
- Compensation if the firm fails
- TWD 3,000,000
- Negative balance protection
- Required
- Client funds held separately
- Required
- Hedging
- Permitted
- FIFO order closing
- Not mandatory
- Supervision covers
- Banks, securities firms, futures, insurance, fintech, forex brokers
- Body type
- Independent government agency
About FSC Taiwan
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) is Taiwan's unified independent regulator overseeing banking, securities, insurance, and forex/futures markets to ensure stability, transparency, and investor protection. It enforces strict capital controls, AML rules, and risk management while promoting fintech and cross-strait financial cooperation. FSC replaced fragmented oversight post-2004 banking crisis.
No listed broker holds a FSC Taiwan licence
None of the brokers in our database holds an active licence from this authority. That is a statement about our listings, not about the regulator.