to alleviate the risk of frauds.Moreover, it is advisable to be cautious when being solicited to invest in ICOs or to buy any digital token for the time being since there are neither approved ICO
regard, the SEC urges investors to be cautious in making use of news coverage on securities offering or fund establishment and listed companies? profit forecast, if it has not approved by the SEC or not
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...
The new partnership between CDP, which runs the global TCFD-aligned environmental disclosure system, and the SEC will include collaboration on a number of important areas including: • Co-developing a programme to improve the quantity and quality of environmental disclosures from corporates and financial institutions in Thailand • The provision of data and insights from CDP to the SEC and other policy actors to support the priorities laid out in the Sustainable Finance Initiatives for Thailand...
The warning came after the SEC had received information from the concerned public and stakeholders who noticed that unlicensed business operators in the securities and digital asset sectors, including foreign digital asset business operators, were soliciting the public to make investments with, or use services of, such unlicensed entities at a financial technology exhibition held at a shopping center on September 27, 2023.The SEC conducted an onsite inspection and gathered evidence in this regar...
SEC Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol said: “Digital asset businesses are regulated under the Emergency Decree on Digital Asset Businesses. Only providers who have obtained relevant licenses under the law are allowed to provide services related to digital asset trading, exchange, depository, transfer, withdrawal or any transactions related to digital assets in Thailand. Violators or those failing to comply with the law may be imposed with legal action.” On 2 July 2021, the SEC fil...
Bangkok, April 18, 2014 ? The SEC urged shareholders of GOLD and UV to carefully study information on valuation of GOLD?s assets in a proposed related party transaction at the upcoming shareholders? meeting on Monday 21 April, 2014.Referring to a proposal to sell 35 parcels of land with 11 buildings of Golden Land Property Development Plc. ("GOLD"), a subsidiary of Univentures Plc. ("UV"), to Sirisap Pattana Company Limited, a related person to GOLD and UV at 980 million baht, boards of director...
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...
Increasingly, the public and listed companies begin to take interest in performing transactions related to digital assets in various forms such as investment in digital assets, accepting cryptocurrency payment for goods and services, and initial coin offering of utility tokens for exchange of goods and services of listed companies. This includes dissemination of news related to such investment or payment for goods or services of listed companies.In addition, on 8 July 2021 the Bank of Thailand (...
With reference to the recent occurrence, a foreign private digital wallet service provider has solicited investors in Thailand via social media to trade digital assets by linking investor trading activities with another foreign digital asset trading platform and allowing payment for the transactions made in Thai baht through Prompt Pay and Thai QR. Such provision of services may be deemed the undertaking of digital asset business without license, subject to the offenses under the Emergenc...