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Greetings
Putting Down Roots, Growing Up Strong
The Taipei Exchange (TPEx) is a young and vibrant exchange. Dedicated to strengthening capital-market services since its founding 23 years ago, TPEx has built an efficient fund-raising platform that supports the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises and helps mid-sized corporations become stronger. Our market provides a tiered structure, which ranges from the micro-enterprise supporting Go Incubation Board for Startup and Acceleration Firms (GISA), to the Emerging Stock Board (ESB) for negotiated-price trading of pre-IPO companies, and on to the Mainboard for more established companies. This GISA to ESB to Mainboard structure supports enterprises’ growth through all their stages of development, and has contributed to the strong growth of Taiwan’s capital markets.
In 2017, TPEx supported the government’s “5+2 Industrial Transformation Plan” by actively encouraging the entry into capital markets of companies in the biotech-healthcare, cultural-creative, agricultural, smart machinery, green energy, defense-aerospace, Internet of Things, and big-data sectors. We also used overseas investment seminars / roadshows to encourage outstanding foreign enterprises to list on our Mainboard or register on our ESB; reviewed our Mainboard-listing and ESB-registration examination