The bank was first established in 1923 as an alliance of about 290
credit unions in Taiwan. In 2009,
BNP Paribas announced a
joint venture with TCB to sell insurance products in Taiwan. The following year, BNP announced another joint venture with TCB to set up an
asset management operation in Taiwan. Taiwan Cooperative Bank was listed by the
Financial Supervisory Commission as a domestic systemically important bank (D-SIB), along with
Taipei Fubon Bank,
CTBC Bank,
Cathay United Bank,
Mega International Commercial Bank, and First Commercial Bank (第一銀行). In 2022, the bank opened a
Czech office in
Prague to tap business opportunities in
Central Europe. The move came in the midst of warming
relations between Taiwan and the Czech Republic. On 2 July 2023, CEO Lin Chien-hao (林謙浩) died, and operations were announced to be continuing under the interim leadership of bank president Lin Mao-yin (林衍茂) and general manager Chen Mei-tsu (陳美足). ==Baseball team==