With several card issuers promoting co-branded cards and the number of merchants accepting cards for sales continuing to increase, full-year credit card spending for last year could reach a new high, it said. A person holds CTBC Bank credit cards in Taipei in an undated photograph. Photo courtesy of CTBC Bank CoTaiwan’s credit card spending was NT$4.686 trillion in 2024, a new record, FSC data showed. CTBC was the biggest issuer of new credit cards among local banks in November last year as it continued to promote a new co-branded credit card with food conglomerate Uni-President Enterprises Corp (統一企業). The bank issued 132,555 cards in the month, or 27.32 percent of the 485,113 cards issued in Taiwan, data showed.
