Bangkok, January 6, 2015 - The Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand (SEC) and the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form ?Academic Alliance? project to develop knowledge management for public and private sectors as well as economic, social and capital market development. The project aims at creating quality graduates through a variety of academic projects. Vorapol Socatiyanurak, SEC Secretary-General said, "This MOU sign...
The new partnership between CDP, which runs the global TCFD-aligned environmental disclosure system, and the SEC will include collaboration on a number of important areas including: • Co-developing a programme to improve the quantity and quality of environmental disclosures from corporates and financial institutions in Thailand • The provision of data and insights from CDP to the SEC and other policy actors to support the priorities laid out in the Sustainable Finance Initiatives for Thailand...
On December 28, 2018, SEC together with the Legal Execution Department and the Department of Legal Execution, Office of the Attorney General, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the benefit of legal execution against offenders. It is the integration of collaboration between the three agencies, supporting the functions of each agency including exchanging information, knowledge and expertise in the prevention of the transfer of property enabling the collection of assets of offenders or defen...
The rules on margin lending (margin account) which have been in effect since 1997 permit SC to lend money to its customer only for the purpose of purchasing listed securities on a condition that the customer must place cash or listed securities as initial margin with securities company . However, bonds or investment units are not permitted to be place with securities company as collateral to increase purchasing power. SEC therefore proposes the inclusion of additional securities classes for...
Bangkok, March 10, 2014 ? The SEC jointly with the Association of Investment Management Companies (AIMC), the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), the Thai Bankers? Association (TBA), the Association of International Banks (AIB), the Association of Securities Companies (ASCO), and the Thai Listed Companies Association (TLCA), launched a project called ?A thousand baht, Start a journey to your dream? to promote investment discipline among working-age population by conveniently investing at least 1,...
Bangkok, August 14, 2014 ? Vorapol Socatiyanurak, SEC Secretary-General revealed that the Capital Market Supervisory Board approved the streamlining of structured notes regulations to boost
-Meeting) with the agenda for consideration and approval of the following:Agenda 1: Consider approval of the following issues:1) Extending the maturity date of the bonds by another 2 years2) Partial
, trustworthiness, and competitive advantage. ?The SEC wishes to enhance the roles of audit committee by prescribing proper educational background and accounting experiences, extending scope of roles and duties to
Cybersecurity Law, such as Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Test, etc.; and (6) Revising the third-party management provisions by extending the scope to include IT service providers or business partners