Yuanta Securities

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Yuanta Securities

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Investment Services
Founded	1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Headquarters	Taipei City, Taiwan
Products	Financial services Investment banking
Revenue	NT$ 41.12 billion (12/31/18)
Operating income	NT$ 10.18 billion (12/31/18)
Net income	NT$ 10.08 billion (12/31/18)
Parent	Yuanta Financial Holding Co., Ltd.(100.00%)
Website	元大證券

Yuanta Securities is a Taiwanese investment bank headquartered in Taipei City, Taiwan and is the subsidiary of Yuanta Financial Holdings. The firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research.^[1]

Currently Yuanta Securities is the largest brokerage house in Taiwan, with about 12% of market share^[2] in the Taiwanese stock market.

The predecessors of Yuanta Securities include Yuanta Securities established in 1961, Core Pacific Securities and Polaris Securities established in 1988, and Fuhua Securities established in 1996. In 2000, Yuanta Securities and Core Pacific Securities merged into Yuanta Core Pacific Securities;^[3] in 2007, Yuanta Core Pacific Securities and Fuhua Securities were merged into Yuanta Securities;^{[citation needed]} in 2012, Yuanta Securities and Polaris securities were merged into Yuanta Polaris Securities;^[4] in 2015, Yuanta Polaris Securities was renamed Yuanta Securities.^{[5][deprecated source]}

Yuanta Securities is now dominated by Yuanda Financial Holdings, after many mergers, while Fuhua Securities is the surviving company.

A board member of Yuanta Financial Holdings resigned in 2012 after his son, Justin Lee, was found to have drugged and raped many women.^[6]