According to the SEC Strategic Plan, the goal of building competitiveness can be achieved through standard rules and regulations. In this regard, the regulatory guillotine scheme,* which focuses on review of rules and regulations to maintain only necessary ones and ensure effective enforcement, can help SEC build a body of standard regulations in line with the changing environment without compromising appropriate investor protection and convenience for business operation.The SEC therefore...

Today, development of technology is rapid and continuous. It disrupts development of services in the capital market. However, SEC views that many provisions in the Securities and Exchange Act B.E. 2535 (1992) and the Derivatives Act B.E. 2546 (2003) do not keep pace with these rapidly changing environments which may unintentionally limit the area that business operators can make use of technology, such as provision that requires business operators to disclosure its financial statements to...