Bangkok, August 17, 2011- Chalee Chantanayingyong, Acting SEC Secretary-General and Chairman of the Capital Market Supervisory Board (CMSB) revealed that the CMSB approved to relax regulations to support industry business operation, remove obstacles and clarify certain governing regulations. The revisions to become effective in September include:1. Licensed derivatives dealer will be allowed to enter into derivatives contract with non-institutional counterparty, providing that the derivatives mu...
Bangkok, April 10, 2014 ? The SEC is seeking public comment on relaxing a unit holding limit where any person or group of persons is allowed to hold not exceeding one-third of all units in a mutual fund ("One-Third Rule"). As there is no such One-Third Rule in other ASEAN countries, the proposed revision aims to facilitate Thai investment management companies by exempting the said Rule from unit holding of mutual funds set up by Thai investment management companies under the ASEAN Collective Inv...
Bangkok, May 29, 2014 ? The SEC is seeking public comment on 2 draft notifications to facilitate offering of mutual funds set up by Thai investment management companies under the ASEAN Collective Investment Schemes (Thai ASEAN CIS). To begin with, the first one provides an exemption of unit holding limit up to one-third of all units sold (the One-Third Rule) for Thai ASEAN CIS in the portion offered to non-Thai nationals and omnibus account in other ASEAN countries to non-Thai nationals and omni...
service sectors in the capital market. The SEC has closely monitored the situation and consistently cooperated with related parties to keep informed of the impact level, consider relaxation of rules to help
Bangkok, April 16, 2014 ? The SEC is seeking public comment on easing rules on derivatives investment of accredited investor funds (AI funds), where all unitholders are institutional investors or
. SEC is prepared to consider easing rules to make it more convenient and not too cumbersome. We have reached a conclusion and shared a common understanding. SEC is ready to receive applications for
currencies and gradually, retail investors will be permitted to invest in such products as well. This is to ensure that easing of investment regulations will truly be advantageous for investors, intermediaries
all business sectors. Thai economy has been pressured from weak in tourism sector, consumption, and export sectors. However, Thailand continues easing country lockdown measures phase by phase since May