The SEC has improved the procedure for handling complaints from investors and the general public to ensure better service quality. The new procedure includes three phases of clearer status updates to

Bangkok, 8 November 2017 ? The SEC is seeking public comments on the draft amendment to the Ministerial Regulation for Securities Business Licenses to provide flexibility and support new businesses in the future. The key objective is to put in place a new licensing regime whereby a more specific type of license could be issued to be in line with the applicant's business model. This aims to replace the current regime whereby each license represents a bundle of business undertakings, which proves...

Essentially, the draft proposal aims to allow three more types of businesses to participate in the Regulatory Sandbox to support more efficient provision of capital market services, namely: (1) securities brokerage, securities dealing, securities underwriting, mutual fund management and securities borrowing and lending (SBL) (currently only investment advisory and private fund management businesses are eligible for the program), (2) derivatives clearing house business, and (3) the securit...

SEC Assistant Secretary-General Kumpol Sontanarat said that SEC has recently provided additional service for the capital market. The open data database contain 10-year historical records of fund raising activities both in equity and debt securities including the details of the fund mobilizers by industry, companies and individual instruments.SEC has been continuously developing the open data service in many forms which can be accessed via SEC website. The data can be downloaded through SEC...

In this regard, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is amending the relevant regulations to support the aforementioned tax benefit measures. These amendments broaden the investment scope of

for three more years (2024-2026), and to expand the fee deduction scope to include consulting expenses for the preparation of carbon footprint disclosure.   In this regard, the deductible amount would

-determined investment scope, and receiving more protection from better quality standard services.The proposed rules are expected to take effect in early 2017. The consultation paper is available at

Arbitral Procedure Organized by the SEC Office (No. 2)