First Financial Holding Co. (2892.TW) sold NT$80 million worth of structured notes linked to General Motors Corp. (GM) to retail customers, the financial services provider said Wednesday.

The notes are principal-protected, said Annie Lee, an investor relations official at First Financial.

First Financial owns First Commercial Bank Co., the island's fifth-largest bank by assets.

Lee said First Financial is also looking to buy a brokerage firm. She didn't elaborate.

-By Perris Lee Choon Siong, Dow Jones Newswires; +8862-2502-2557; perris.lee@dowjones.com