The measures include the Bank of Thailand (BOT)’s permission for financial institutions that have purchased investment units of daily fixed income funds to place such investment units as collateral for liquidity support while financial institutions giving assistance to such mutual funds are allowed to use high-quality domestic instruments as collateral for the same purpose.Concurrently, SEC has announced a measure for temporary liquidity management by allowing asset management companies to...
sector, the SEC Board has approved to ease the regulations governing the establishment of an audit committee for certain types of securities companies. The audit committee is required to perform the duty
provide easily and thoroughly assessable disclosure channels to investors as opposed to the previous requirement for specifically disclosing certain types of information at the companies’ office or the
Under the proposed regulations, in order to be qualified for exemption, the futures exchange, derivatives clearing house, securities clearing house and securities depository shall submit its rule to the SEC Office at least 10 working days before the intended effective date of such rule, along with a brief report on comments from the stakeholders (if any). The types of rule that can rely on this exemption are as follows: (1) Rules that carry the material context similar to that state...
SEC Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol said: “Nowadays, digital assets are used for fundraising and trading. Also, Blockchain innovation and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) are applied to non-financial industries such as energy, arts, entertainment or sports whereby various assets are converted into digital tokens to enhance transaction efficiency and consumer accessibility. Regulators in various countries have expressed views and laid out guidelines for digital asset oversight t...
The seminar series will showcase a pool of knowledge and advice from certified financial planners (CFP) and experts on financial, investment and debt management. Investors and the interested public can also learn useful tips for managing financial health during Covid-19 situation as well as guidelines for self-adjustment and business planning advice for SMEs after the situation improves. The interested public can watch the free online seminars broadcast live on four Facebook pages, namely: @sec...
The Regulatory Guillotine* scheme is one of the key projects supporting the implementation of SEC Strategic Plan in the area of competitiveness enhancement and connectivity. The scheme enables a regulatory framework that requires issuance and revision of necessary rules and regulations and promotion of effective enforcement in line with international standards and current situations. In this regard, SEC has reviewed regulations on the operation of investment management business as presc...
NBC will hold the AGM 2020 to seek approval for the acquisition of “Komchadluek” trademark from NMG at the amount of 69.9 million baht and the acquisition of assets and business under the “Komchadluek” trademark from Komchadluek Media at the amount of 100,000 baht, resulting in the total acquisition value of 70 million baht. NBC’s Board of Directors and the Audit Committee view that the entry into the acquisition of business and the trademark of Komchadluek is appropriate and beneficial fo...
transactions sent by the company. In addition, she had other persons confirm certain non-Internet based derivatives trading orders to make it appear that the client had sent the orders himself. {A}’s
securities or positions in derivatives or foreign currencies overseas to a Thai business operator that they wish to use its services. In this regard, investors must present information to prove sources of