The internationalization and liberalization of financial market has unleashed a new wave of financial risks all over the world. Taiwan’s banking industry, therefore, has to pay more and more attention in its risk management. This thesis addresses the question of how ownership structure and the board structure affects the banking total risk, asset risk and earnings risk during the period from 1996 through 2008 with quarterly and yearly data. The empirical results show that the independent directors do not effectively play their roles in managing risks. The risk management effectiveness of the directors’ power and the directors’ board on the assets and earnings risks are not obvious. It is also found that the larger the bank size and higher the frequency trading, the higher risk in Taiwan''s banking industry. Especially, results indicate that the higher debt ratio of banks, the greater volatility of earnings, implying the non- adaptation of earning smoothing to embellish the financial statements from the point of view of risk management.