As of the end of October 2005, financial institutes in Taiwan had approximately NT $ 500 billion in available revolving credit for credit cards and over NT $ 300 billion available for cash advance loans. Tack onto that small loans not made on cards and you have NT $ 1.4 trillion dollars in unsecured personal debt.
截至去年 10 月底，全國金融機構信用卡循環可用餘額約五千億元，現金卡放款餘額約三千多億元，若再加上非卡類的小額信貸，合計個人無擔保放款餘額約 1.4 兆元。