various channels, thus ensuring that electronic financial services provided by financial institutions, including commercial banks, are effectively resilient to cyberattacks. 2. Unemployment and
these events, the economy has remained resilient overall. GDP growth continued at 6.1 percent with inflation remained low at 2.8 percent. The capital market though affected by uncertainties, performed
Annual Report 2009 1 Annual Report 20092 Over the past year, the Thai economy experienced a recession for the first time since the Asian economic crisis in 1997. The first quarter saw a 7.1 percent contraction as a result of sluggish export in the midst of global financial crisis, diminishing demand of domestic private sector, and lack of confidence in economic and political directions. All these factors played out against a backdrop of weakening economies of our trade partners worldwide, which...