Taiwan Depository & Clearing Corporation

In order to encourage investors to attend shareholders’ meeting through e-voting, TDCC has been expanding e-voting lucky draw activities this year. It is estimated that there were over 980,000 votes from investors exercising voting right through e-voting by 30 June 2016, reaching a record high in terms of voting number, company number, and the percentage of e-voting at shareholder’s meeting. In addition, what’s worth mentioning is that over 360,000 votes from investors were conducted through “Stockvote App” on mobile devices, meaning mobile technology has become an important channel for investors to exercise their voting power.

To promote corporate governance and maintain shareholders’ equities, the authority, Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), has actively promoted the policy for listed companies at both stock exchange and over-the-counter markets to adopt e-voting at shareholders’ meetings. This year, mandatory e-voting policy has been more widely imposed; companies at stock exchange and over-the-counter with paid in capital over 2 billion and the number of shareholders over 10,000 are required to include e-voting as one of the means for shareholders to exercise their voting power. This year, 605 companies adopt the e-voting mechanism, and that amount accounts for 85% of the whole market value.

As Chairman & CEO Mr. Lin pointed out, the exercise of voting right through e-voting this year constitutes over 45% of the shareholders’ meeting attendance ratio. E-voting has already been accepted by and familiar to investors, creating a win-win situation for both companies and shareholders.

Chairman & CEO Mr. Lin further stated that in response to the growing popularity of mobile devices, TDCC, keeping itself abreast of the times as always, has been actively employing state-of-the-art digital technology to integrate both brick-and-mortar and online channels so as to offer more convenient, efficient, and innovative services to users. “Stockvote” is just a beginning, and following that TDCC will launch the app “Securities Passbook” to proactively provide investors with real-time transaction data for a better understanding of their asset updates. In the future, the two major Apps “Stockvote” and “Mobile Passbook” will be integrated, and therefore e-voting, important announcements, and stock affair related major notifications will be incorporated. Services for stockholders’ equities will be more easily accessible and digitalized, and in turn creates more added values for this market and build up a symbiotic ecosphere for digital services.