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 (...

Today (February 23, 2004), the meeting between the Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Association of Securities Companies (ASCO) agreed on ASCO?s proposal concerning preventive measures on risk arising from abnormal trading as follows: Shares prohibited from margin loan and net settlement should be applied only to 1. shares with one-week turnover ratio of 100% or over, and 2. shares with P/E ratio of 100 or over or company with net loss. Such prohibitions sho...

This is in response to news on a website stated that the Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will prohibit margin loans and net settlement for shares having turnover ratio of more than 40% or high P/E ratio or operating loss or being in the REHABCO sector. The SEC would like to clarify as follows: - The Association of Securities Companies (ASCO), with its good intention to help prevent settlement risk and market manipulation, has conducted a hearing among its members...

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...

For greater transparency and fairness of the allocation of initial public offering (IPO) or public offering (PO) securities, the SEC approved draft rules prohibiting the allocation of IPO/PO securities to mutual funds of related parties. Such mutual funds of related parties are as follows: (1) a mutual fund that more than 50% of the total investment units sold are held by related parties, or (2) a mutual fund that not more than 50% of the total investment units sold are held by related parties,...

Bangkok, January 9, 2009 ? With reference to the SEC?s earlier complaint filed with the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) against S.E.C. Auto Sales and Services Plc.?s ("SECC") chairman Sompong Witthayaraksan and four accomplices on the grounds of defrauding and misappropriating the company?s assets by falsifying documents to deceive the company into paying money for the purchase of non-existent cars for the benefit of themselves or other persons, causing the company to suffer substantia...

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,...

Under the SEC’s policy, digital asset business operators are not allowed to provide or support deposit taking and lending services to prevent possible damage to digital asset investors and the public in the possible event of service discontinuance or financial problems that may occur on a continuous or concurrent basis among service providers as has recently been the case for foreign counterparts. In addition, the draft regulation is expected to further clarify the scope of supervision of digita...