promoting a conducive environment for transparent, efficient and fair markets. To achieve its objectives, the SEC oversees the quality of business operators, including their products and services, promotes a

all necessary basic infrastructure to enhance market competitiveness in the international arena 4. To maintain high professional standards of the SEC as a regulator To achieve effectively strategic

million baht respectively. Accordingly, buying volumes of domestic institutional investors were partly from the establishment of new 40 equities mutual funds. High level of confidence among domestic

of the Roundtable will focus on how to change behaviour to achieve better out- comes. This commitment to excellence in corporate governance matters not only to Asia. The growing economic influence of

and enforcement. F. Cross-border co-operation should be enhanced, including through bilateral and multilateral arrangements for exchange of information. High levels of cross-border ownership and trading

, the Master Plan stresses the promotion of the supply of high quality products. A key initiative in this area, deriving from the government’s privatization policy, has been the promotion of initial

Thai economy. Reinforcing investors' confidence is an arduous and indispensable mission if the long-term growth of the capital market is to accomplish and sustain. To achieve such goal, the SEC endeavors

uncertainty and external challenges led by record-high oil prices, fluctuation of foreign capital flows at rapid speed and in high volume, and US subprime mortgage crisis. Yet, the Thai capital market succeeded

borrowing and lending, and joint venture management. As a result, any intermediary wishing to operate only brokerage business, for example, would have to meet the high minimum paid-up capital rule despite its

achieve their goals. Hence, determination of regulations on supervision of securities clearing houses and central securities depositories, efficient use of information technology (IT governance), and