Patrick Chien, president of the Bank of the Marshall Islands (BMI), is the islands 'longest-standing resident of Taiwanese origin. Because of his background as a Southeast-Asian-born overseas Chinese and his experience working for the Chang Hwa Bank and the Chase Manhattan Bank, 18 years ago when Taiwan's Lai Lai group established BMI, Chen was sent to open up what was then "unexplored territory" for Taiwanese business.
現任馬紹爾國家銀行董事長的陳子瀛，是移民最久的台灣人，由於東南亞華僑的出生背景，與早年曾任職於彰化銀行與大通銀行的經驗，十八年前台灣「來來百貨」在當地投資成立「馬紹爾群島銀行」時，陳子瀛就被派往經營這塊台商的「處女地」。