It isn’t easy to get to see Joseph Huang. Not because the president and chief executive of E.Sun Commercial Bank, probably Taiwan’s most altruistic and ambitious lender, isn’t available or indeed affable – he’s both.
At first, the challenge involves getting beyond E.Sun’s eager gatekeepers. Chiwei Hsiao, head of investor relations, is hovering at the front door of the bank’s headquarters in the heart of Taipei, full of bonhomie. He shepherds Euromoney through the lobby for a prolonged tour of a row of ATMs.
“All of our 138 branches have at least one foreign currency cash machine,” he says proudly, wafting a hand at the whirring beasts, which dispense cash in Japanese yen, Chinese yuan and Hong Kong and US dollars.
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