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...
The SEC’s policy is to strengthen the oversight of digital asset business operators with a focus on quality and reliability enhancement of such business operator to protect investors. This means the records of investors’ assets under custody of the business operators must be accurate, complete and updated while the assets must be properly protected from relevant risks. In September 2021, the SEC conducted a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the regulations on custody of clients’ assets....
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...
The SEC’s policy is to strengthen the oversight of digital asset business operators with a focus on continued quality development and investor protection reliability of such business operators. This means the records of investors’ assets under custody of the business operators must be accurate, complete and updated while the assets must be properly protected from relevant risks. Therefore, the SEC is proposing additional regulations related to custody of clients’ assets by requiring that digi...
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...
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,...
additional provisions and disclosure procedures to be in line with internationally recognized standards to enhance investor confidence. ___________________________________