Bangkok, October 30, 2015 ? The Thai capital market is making progress toward adoption of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)?s revised Principles of Corporate Governance, which have been released at the 2015 OECD-Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance in Bangkok today. Co-hosted by the OECD, the SEC, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the Thai Institute of Directors Association (IOD) in partnership with the Government of Japan, the roundtable is a forum f...
The Passport is intended to provide significant benefits to investors through more fund choice, while maintaining effective legal and regulatory arrangement for investor protection. It is also intended to strengthen the capacity, expertise and international competitiveness of financial markets and the funds industry in the region.Implementation ProgressThe participating economies have progressed with legal and regulatory requirements in their respective jurisdictions. Japan and Thailand have com...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) supported the Digital Library Project initiated by the Department of Children and Youth (DCY), the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS). As part of this initiative, the DCY co-organized a donation of computers and equipment to a group of Phiang Luang School and Border Patrol Police School (a total of 13 schools in the northern region of Thailand). The donation was presented by Mr. Thaneadpon Thanaboonyawat, Secretary to the...
Society to provide financial aid for flood victims in northern Thailand. Mr. Khan Prachuabmoh, Director of the Fund Raising Bureau of the Thai Red Cross Society, accepted the donation on 16 September 2024
Under SEC’s proposed disclosure requirements, funds that invest in leasehold rights of real estates or in future revenue sharing contracts of infrastructure projects (leasehold funds) are required to disclose this information to warn investors before they make investment decisions. For example, leasehold property funds (Type1), which are prohibited from investing in new assets, must give clear warnings at the end of the funds’ names. While REITs and infrastructure funds with remaining ag...
investment was made. Therefore, the general public could not utilize the capital market to create financial freedom.”“The Five Steps toward Investment Confidence project was initiated from the intent of SEC in
Bangkok, June 30, 2016 ? The SEC has become one of the first signatories to the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Establishment and Implementation of the Asia Region Funds Passort (MoC), which prescribes the framework and conditions for public offerings of cross-border mutual funds under the Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP).Together with the other first participating economies ? namely, the Republic of Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia ? Thailand is making preparations for the launch of pa...
The afore-mentioned Capital Market Development Plan, acknowledged by the Cabinet on Tuesday, January 31, 2023, consists of the following five strategic directions for continued growth of the capital market which is envisioned to become: Strategic Direction 1 Capital market for competitiveness (Competitiveness), in which potentiality and competitiveness of all sectors in the capital market and economic system will be reinforced. Strategic Direction 2 Capital market accessible to all (Accessibili...
countries on legal and regulatory arrangements, and their respective plans to consider adoption of ISSB Standards. The result of the survey shows encouraging steps by ACMF jurisdictions with existing
used to aid or abet the others in connection with such behavior; or (2) has or used to have any behavior that, if considered on a reasonable ground, indicates unfair practices or disadvantage to