# TransAsia Sisters Association Taiwan  

For many foreign nationals and new immigrants in Taiwan, the hardest barrier to daily life is not language, housing, or employment: it is the bank counter. In an exclusive interview with Storm Media on February 2, Chen Hsue-hui, Secretary-General of the TransAsia Sisters Association Taiwan (TASAT), said Taiwan’s banking system is built around a rigid idea of the “typical user,” one that systematically treats cross-border residents as high-risk customers regardless of how long they have lived in the country. “The system assumes a very narrow life path,” Chen said. “If you don’t fit it, you become invisible.”