Sukonthaman said: ?The SEC supervision takes into serious account intermediaries? managerial structure and work systems to ensure protection of clients? best interest and the overall market reliability. Some of
Bangkok, December 4, 2014 ? The SEC is seeking public comment on a proposal on crowdfunding supervision, aiming to introduce a new fundraising channel for small and medium sized enterprises in
Bangkok, January 20, 2014 ? The SEC is seeking public comment on draft rules on cross-border offering of ASEAN collective investment schemes (ASEAN CIS) to retail investors. When compiled with non-retail offering rules already in force, the ASEAN CIS cross-border offering rules will be comprehensive and more user-friendly. The proposed drat rules have been developed under the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF)?s implementation plan, the ASEAN CIS framework and the common standards concerning qu...
Bangkok, February 23, 2015 ? The SEC is seeking public comment on proposed revision of rules governing operational control and information technology (IT) security of the securities companies and derivatives agents. The proposed rules aim at enhancing service quality and keeping up with advanced IT systems such as use of cloud computing service, IT human resource security, encryption and incident management. The consultation paper is available on www.sec.or.th. Stakeholders and interested partie...
Bangkok, February 10, 2014 ? SEC Secretary-General Vorapol Socatiyanurak revealed that the Capital Market Supervisory Board approved an exemption of requirement to conduct suitability test for institutional clients of registered derivatives dealers and derivatives fund managers, considering that the institutional clients are capable of making their own investment. The institutional clients may, nevertheless, make an opt-in request to do the suitability test for evaluation of their portfolio inve...
Presently, supervising “digital asset businesses” under the royal decree on digital asset businesses, B.E. 2561 cover three business groups: digital asset exchange; digital asset broker; and digital asset dealer.Compared to securities business, digital asset businesses have not yet expanded into digital asset advisory service and digital asset fund management. Earlier, securities companies have expressed interest and discussed with SEC the possibility of offering the services. These secur...
aim to strengthen supervision on capital market business operation. Lessons learned from both organizations’ experience on cases with widespread impacts on the stakeholders were also shared for