Given the prolonged period of low interest rate in the Thai bond market, many debt securities issuers are increasingly issuing for sale subordinated perpetual bonds which have more complex features and offer higher returns than general debt securities. Specifically, from 2012 to June 2020, the total offering amount of subordinated perpetual bonds was 119,000 million baht. Of this amount, the majority investors were retail investors, accounting for approximately 81 percent, and HNW account...
Presently, several companies are interested to raise fund through digital token offer to finance their investment in office buildings or condominiums which will later be rented for income shared to holders of digital tokens or real estate-backed initial coin offering (ICO). Meanwhile, the regulations have not yet extended to such fund raising method and a smart contract has not yet covered an enforcement of investors’ rights in some issues which are activities occurring outside blockchain...
Bangkok, September 24, 2013 ? The SEC jointly with 13 alliances today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to implement the ?Financial Literacy: Road to Thailand?s Prosperity? project which aims to raise public awareness in personal finance, retirement savings, accessibility to suitable financial products and services and investor right and protection. The 14 alliances include the SEC, the Office of Insurance Commission (OIC), the Social Security Office (SSO), the Government Pension Fund (...
Bangkok, August 1, 2007 ? The SEC and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) co-hosted together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a high level international conference in Bangkok to explore strategies for greater cooperation among South East Asian equity markets. The 40 attendances are mainly from the public sector including senior officials of ASEAN Secretariat, Ministries of Finance, central banks, capital market regulators, stock exchanges and market practitioners from the region. T...
Bangkok, January 6, 2015 - The Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand (SEC) and the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form ?Academic Alliance? project to develop knowledge management for public and private sectors as well as economic, social and capital market development. The project aims at creating quality graduates through a variety of academic projects. Vorapol Socatiyanurak, SEC Secretary-General said, "This MOU sign...
On December 28, 2018, SEC together with the Legal Execution Department and the Department of Legal Execution, Office of the Attorney General, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the benefit of legal execution against offenders. It is the integration of collaboration between the three agencies, supporting the functions of each agency including exchanging information, knowledge and expertise in the prevention of the transfer of property enabling the collection of assets of offenders or defen...
Bangkok, March 10, 2014 ? The SEC jointly with the Association of Investment Management Companies (AIMC), the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), the Thai Bankers? Association (TBA), the Association of International Banks (AIB), the Association of Securities Companies (ASCO), and the Thai Listed Companies Association (TLCA), launched a project called ?A thousand baht, Start a journey to your dream? to promote investment discipline among working-age population by conveniently investing at least 1,...
association and the directors of TIA’s Shareholder Rights Protection Volunteer Club, and discussed the ways to enhance shareholder and investor rights protection in response to the changes in capital market
to investors by brokers, to ensure they align with their debt repayment ability Enhance investor alerts on listed companies by providing more details of C sign Previously: only C sign posting