During January – March this year, the SEC conducted a public hearing on proposed amendments to the PVD Act to support the development of fund structure, enhance the member protection mechanism with fair treatment and transparency, and increase flexibility for management of member contribution. Most respondents agreed with the proposed amendments and suggested further details for the amendments. The SEC has taken the public and stakeholders’ comments and recommendations into consideration....

Real estate-backed ICO is in the form of fundraising and benefit generation similar to REIT. However, the regulations governing real estate-backed ICO with regard to investor protection mechanism are different from REIT regulations. For example, the real estate-backed ICO currently lacks a mechanism for monitoring and overseeing the management of assets and for protecting the interest of digital token holders.The SEC has therefore amended the regulations governing supervision of real estat...

building for ACMF Members and stakeholders.At this Meeting, ACMF provided high-level feedback on how to support implementation of the ISSB S1 and S2 standards in the region, to ISSB’s Agenda Priorities

region presented an overview of the industry and the process of submitting the sale offer in each country, at the Industry Day Seminar organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. At this event, a

SEC Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol, along with SEC Deputy Secretary-General Sirivipa Supantanet, and management team met with H.E. Mr. Sou Socheat, Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC), and executives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on August 5, 2019.On this occasion, both regulators exchanged views on cooperation and assistance that the SECC and SEC Thailand will provide to each other with regard to cross-border equity offering and depositary re...

the arrangements with real funds.?Industry outreachThe JC discussed strategies to continue to closely engage with industry throughout the region to ensure that the Passport would meet industry needs.The

management, compliance, and internal audit based on the principles of the Three Lines of Defense to ensure the effectiveness of securities company oversight and to further promote recognition of the

stakeholders, information and comments from which was used in drawing up a proposal for revision of oversight of auditors and audit firms in Thai capital market, TDRI offered a detailed proposal as follows: (1

, which will lead to the improvement of the audit oversight in Thailand” SEC gives priority to audit quality which is an essential factor to raise the credibility of the financial