The Royal Decree on Digital Asset Businesses, B.E. 2018 stipulates that issuing and offering digital tokens must be approved by SEC and digital tokens must be offered through digital token portals for every case even though it will be offered via private placement. For example, the normal regulations will be obstacles in the process of pre-ICO and private sale.Therefore, SEC intends to relax some of its regulations for offers via private placement to related parties or investors who can lo...

Bangkok, 30 November 2016 ? The SEC is seeking public comments on the draft amendments concerning mutual fund product governance to ensure that intermediaries? business practice focuses primarily on investors? best interest.  This regulatory revision is part of the SEC?s three-year strategic plan to improve the overall market ecosystem regarding capital market product governance. The key points of amendment include creation of preventive mechanism against conflicts of interest, selection of inte...

Bangkok, 1 March 2019 ?  The SEC is seeking public comments on the proposed rules for data submission to the SEC Office by digital asset business operators and initial coin offering (ICO) portals

The SEC is proposing the rules and procedures under the draft Securities and Exchange Act (SEA) (No…) B.E. …., which has been considered by the National Legislative Council. The draft SEA prescribes

amendments to the handling of conflicts of interest rules to improve efficiency of the securities offering process, which include preventive measures and disclosure measures to support investors

While all securities companies were required to have paid-up registered capital at the same amount of 100 million baht, the new rules require that applicants and licensees of all types of

The material events in the proposed rules are those already specified and currently required by the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) to be reported by listed companies. The proposed rules would allow

Essentially, the new rules allow securities brokers and derivatives agents to provide two types of trading services of capital market products that respond to investors’ demands more efficiently

, the rules, which are currently in effect, should be revised with respect to maintenance of NC in case of abnormal increase in transaction volume of the business operator to the effect that the

Bangkok, 25 February 2019 ? The SEC is seeking public comments on the proposed rules for intermediaries to provide assisting tools to asset allocation and investment planning. This would allow