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, namely (1) program trading service that automates trading order execution according to clients’ selected investment strategy* and (2) portfolio advisory with execution service.** Both of the services are exempted from the securities business license in the category of private fund management and...
false statement regarding capital increase of the company. Given that Pichet was assigned to study and make an improvement plan for MLINK?s financial condition and capital structure, he must have
SEC Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol announced that SEC has issued a measure allowing asset management companies to borrow money or enter into a repurchase transaction agreement to better manage liquidity of fixed income funds and mixed funds that invest at least 60 percent of the net asset value in debt securities. The limit for such transactions is increased from 10 percent to 30 percent of the NAV at daily closing. This liquidity boosting option is valid until 30 April 2020, as...
The amended rules on approval of ICO portals give the applicants more flexibility and reduce risk on developing/investing in high-cost work systems while the approval process is underway. Pursuant to the amended rules, the approval process is now divided into two steps, namely: (1) examining the qualifications and appropriateness of the required work systems according to the application supporting documents within 90 days from the date of filing the application with SEC, and (2) inspecti...
capital increase of 1,076.51 million baht (from the existing 358.84 million baht to reach the new amount of 1,435.35 million baht) by issuing additional 21,530,245,323 shares at the price of 0.05 baht per
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), led by Secretary-General Pornanong Budsaratragoon, along with SEC executives, held a joint meeting with the Custodian Club, led by President Utumporn Viranuvatti, and club members, to discuss strategies for elevating the efficiency in the standards of post-trade services of investment management companies. Both parties also exchanged views on the roles of custodians under draft amendments to the Provident Fund (PVD) Act and within the securities trad...
SEC Secretary General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol said that after SEC has initiated the “SEC Caravan to Provincial Areas” project in accordance with the capital market development plan which is in line with the National Strategy in the aspect of providing provincial people with the access to financial services and the capital market, including more understanding of SEC’s roles, in 2019 SEC plans to organize events in four provinces, i.e. Khon Kaen, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Udon Thani and Chiang Mai...
Essentially, the amendments would apply to digital asset business operators, i.e., exchanges, brokers and dealers, and cover the licensing process, from change to the fee payment time frame to extension to the time frame of readiness preparation for business commencement in case of necessity. In addition, the regulations governing key aspects of digital asset business operation would be amended. For example, data storage system, management system and custody of client assets. This is to pr...
Following the initial launch earlier this year, the ESG Product Platform in its second phase features extensive coverage and details related to sustainability-themed financial products, especially SRI Funds and bonds.* Additional details for SRI Fund include investment policy, investment unit value, net asset value, dividend policy, fund fees and past performance. The information is available bilingually, in Thai and English, for the public’s convenience. The SEC introduced the ESG Pro...