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...
The SEC Board has passed a resolution approving in principle the proposal to amend the Ministerial Regulations on Licensing of Digital Asset Businesses B.E. 2561 (2018) and relevant regulations to promote fundraising and investment in investment tokens and to support interested securities business operators in providing services related to the said products. This in turn would increase access channels to investors in both primary and secondary markets. The SEC is therefore conducting this public...
Bangkok, January 14, 2016 ? SEC Secretary-General Rapee Sucharitakul today announced the SEC Strategic Plan 2016-2018 to stakeholders from all sectors, placing a special focus on well-balanced and fundamental development of ecosystem in the Thai capital market to enhance trustworthiness as well as efficiency and competitiveness of intermediaries and the overall market. The three-year strategic plan gives more weight to practical rules and regulations developed from effective communication and un...
Bangkok, November 5, 2015 ?The SEC is seeking public comments on the proposed relaxation to the rules governing investment policy of mutual funds offered for sale to accredited investors, i.e
securities, namely green bond, social bond and sustainability bond. Issuers of such bonds are entitled for the fee exemption from 17 May 2019 to 31 May 2020. This relaxation of the filing rules aims to
January 2022, the regulations allow relaxation and prevent excessive burdens by, for example, waiving the application filing and the appointment of financial advisor, and allow initial public offering (IPO
operations or to material information access, and submit the letter requesting a relaxation to SEC by 14 May 2020. For the companies that have already been granted relaxation on submission of financial