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Article 28
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A securities firm shall provide information on its business conditions in accordance with the following:<br/>1. Significant business matters: The securities firm shall provide information on matters arising over the most recent 5 financial years that have had a significant impact on its business, including acquisitions of or mergers with other companies, demergers, equity investments in affiliated enterprises, reorganization, purchases or disposals of major assets, and significant changes in operation method or business activity.<br/>2. Remuneration to directors, supervisors, general manager, and assistant general managers, and to chairmen of the board and general managers who are rehired as consultants after retiring from the securities firm or its affiliated enterprises:<br/>A. The securities firm may opt either to disclose aggregate remuneration information, with the name(s) indicated for each remuneration range, or to disclose the name of each individual and the corresponding remuneration amount. For a director concurrently serving as a member of management, the remuneration shall be disclosed separately for each position held. The securities firm may adopt the aggregate disclosure method if it is a non-public company whose issued voting shares are all held, directly or indirectly, by one single person.<br/>B. In any of the following circumstances, the securities firm shall disclose the remuneration paid to each individual director, supervisor, general manager, assistant general manager, and consultant, provided that this rule does not apply if it is a non-public company whose issued voting shares are all held, directly or indirectly, by one single person:<br/>a. The securities firm's most recent capital adequacy ratio, whether unaudited, CPA-reviewed, or adjusted following FSC examination, is lower than 150 percent.<br/>b. There has been an after-tax deficit in the parent company only or individual financial report within the most recent 3 financial years. The preceding provision does not apply if the parent company only or individual financial report for the most recent fiscal year shows net profit after tax, which is sufficient to make up the accumulated deficits.<br/>C. The securities firm, if a public company that has had an insufficient director shareholding percentage for 3 consecutive months or longer during the most recent financial year, shall disclose the remuneration paid to each of the directors, and, if one that has had an insufficient supervisor shareholding percentage for 3 consecutive months or longer during the most recent financial year, shall disclose the remuneration paid to each of the supervisors.<br/>D. The securities firm, if a public company that has had an average ratio of share pledging by directors and supervisors in excess of 50 percent in any 3 months during the most recent financial year, shall disclose the remuneration paid to each of the directors and supervisors having a ratio of pledged shares in excess of 50 percent for each such month.<br/>E. If the total amount of remuneration received by all of the directors and supervisors of the securities firm in their capacity as directors or supervisors of all the companies listed in the financial reports exceeds 2 percent of the net profit after tax, and the remuneration received by any individual director or supervisor exceeds NT$15 million, the securities firm shall disclose the remuneration paid to that individual director or supervisor, provided that this rule does not apply if it is a non-public securities firm whose issued voting shares are all held, directly or indirectly, by one single person.<br/>F. If a securities firm listed on the TWSE or the TPEx is ranked within the lowest two tiers in the corporate governance evaluation for the most recent fiscal year, or in the most recent fiscal year or up to the date of publication of the financial report for that year, the securities firm's securities have been placed under an altered trading method, suspended from trading, delisted from the TWSE or the TPEx, or the Corporate Governance Evaluation Committee has resolved the securities firm shall be excluded from evaluation, the securities firm shall disclose the remuneration paid to each individual director and supervisor.<br/>G. If the average annual salary of the full-time non-management employees in a TWSE or TPEx listed securities firm is less than NT$500,000 in the most recent fiscal year, the securities firm shall disclose the remuneration paid to each individual director and supervisor.<br/>H. If a TWSE or TPEx listed securities firm had an increase of 10 percent or more in net profit after tax for the most recent fiscal year, and the average annual salary of its full-time non-management employees did not increase relative to the preceding fiscal year, the securities firm shall disclose the remuneration paid to each individual director and supervisor.<br/>I. If a TWSE or TPEx listed securities firm had a decline in after-tax net income reaching 10 percent and exceeding NT$5 million for the most recent fiscal year, along with an increase in its average remuneration per director (not including the remuneration of those who are also employees) reaching 10 percent and exceeding NT$100,000, the securities firm shall disclose the remuneration paid to each individual director and supervisor.<br/>J. If the circumstance in subitem b of item B or item F applies to a securities firm listed on the TWSE or the TPEx, it shall disclose the individual remuneration paid to each of its top five management personnel.<br/>3. Number of employees in non-management positions, average annual employee benefit expenses for the fiscal year, and difference compared to those of the preceding year.<br/>4. Labor-management relations:<br/>A. Indicate each item of employee benefit policies, professional development, training, or retirement programs and the status of their implementation, as well as agreements between labor and management and policies for safeguarding employees' rights and interests.<br/>B. List the loss sustained as a result of labor disputes in the most recent financial year, together with the disclosure of an estimate of losses incurred to date or likely to be incurred in the future and the mitigation measures taken or to be taken. If the losses cannot be reasonably estimated, the securities firm shall make a statement to that effect.<br/>C. List any violations of the Labor Standards Act found during a labor inspection, including the disposition date, disposition reference number, the provisions breached, description of the violation, and the disposition.<br/>5. The following items shall be disclosed with respect to the implementation of the internal control system:<br/>A. Statement of the internal control system.<br/>B. If a CPA has been engaged to carry out a project audit of the internal control system, the CPA audit report shall be disclosed.<br/>6. Cyber security management:<br/>A. Describe the cyber security risk management framework, cyber security policies, concrete management programs, and investments in resources for cyber security management.<br/>B. List any losses suffered by the securities firm in the most recent fiscal year due to significant cyber security incidents, the possible impacts therefrom, and measures being or to be taken. If a reasonable estimate cannot be made, an explanation of the facts of why it cannot be made shall be provided.<br/>7. The term "affiliated enterprises" in this article refers to those conforming with Article 369-1 of the Company Act.
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