Objective/Meaning  The rapid growth of the financial industry presented a trend of diversification of talent demand, and it has become more and more important to optimize the mode of talent training to serve the financial development. By analyzing and drawing lessons from the experience of financial talent training accumulated in Taiwan, it would be helpful to enrich the financial talent training system in the Chinese mainland and help the development and growth of the financial industry.

  Methods/Procedures  Through the methods of literature retrieval and case analysis, the training mode of financial talents in Taiwan was summarized in this paper, and by drawing lessons from its experience and avoiding its deficiencies, some countermeasures for developing and improving the training system of financial talents in the Chinese mainland were put forward.

  Results/Conclusions  The research found that, the training mode of financial talents in Taiwan belonged to the management discipline according to the current demand of the island’s economic and financial industry, attached importance to the combination of financial theory and financial management ability, and highlighted the wealth appreciation function of serving the individuals, families and enterprises, but there were also some limitations of relatively single training mode and serious homogeneity. Therefore, it was suggested that the Chinese mainland should strengthen the differences in financial talent training based on the macro strategies such as the financial market internationalization and the rural revitalization; the research-oriented universities should focus on the cultivation of comprehensive quality and innovation ability such as the macroeconomics and financial theory, so as to serve the internationalization of financial market; while the colleges and universities should pay attention to the training of the basic financial quality and the practical financial operation ability, and strengthen the training of rural financial talents, so as to serve the development of local economy and rural financial industry.