In the wake of the financial crisis, many ethnic-Chinese-owned banks in Southeast Asia with which Taiwanese firms had worked closely have failed or suspended operations, and the surviving banks have scaled down their activities and even withdrawn customers 'credit facilities.
金融風暴後，以往和台商往來密切的東南亞華商銀行，如今倒的倒、關的關，倖存的銀行則緊縮業務、甚至向客戶抽銀根。