SEC Assistant Secretary-General Kumpol Sontanarat said that SEC has recently provided additional service for the capital market. The open data database contain 10-year historical records of fund raising activities both in equity and debt securities including the details of the fund mobilizers by industry, companies and individual instruments.SEC has been continuously developing the open data service in many forms which can be accessed via SEC website. The data can be downloaded through SEC...

Essentially, the draft proposal aims to allow three more types of businesses to participate in the Regulatory Sandbox to support more efficient provision of capital market services, namely: (1) securities brokerage, securities dealing, securities underwriting, mutual fund management and securities borrowing and lending (SBL) (currently only investment advisory and private fund management businesses are eligible for the program), (2) derivatives clearing house business, and (3) the securit...

SEC plans to issue additional requirements relating to the structure of the Board of Directors and Management of IPO companies and listed companies to the current regulations on the check and balance system (for example, independent directors and audit committee members) that will enhance the image and create confidence for the Thai capital markets.  In addition, this approach is in line with the principles of corporate governance (CG), which has been adopted since 2002 by most IPO companies...

-determined investment scope, and receiving more protection from better quality standard services.The proposed rules are expected to take effect in early 2017. The consultation paper is available at

for three more years (2024-2026), and to expand the fee deduction scope to include consulting expenses for the preparation of carbon footprint disclosure.   In this regard, the deductible amount would

. Example 1 : An audit firm did not have a complete audit manual, which caused each engagement to be different in audit scope and in basis of selection. Example 2 : An audit firm used its network’s audit

Financial Services Limited Hong Kong, which specialized in a diverse range of investment products and financial services for alien expatriates and residents in Hong Kong, Moscow, Shienghai and Bangkok.In both

investors to invest in a diverse range of securities products. By requiring that all types of securities offering to high net worth investors be proceeded through intermediaries, the proposed revision would