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
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
SEC has prepared a questionnaire surveying preparedness toward the Personal Data Protection Act, B.E. 2562 in April 2020 for self-assessment of 276 organizations under its supervision. Based on the results, 192 firms responded, scoring 70% total preparedness in personal data protection.Business operators, who need to accelerate their preparedness for the Personal Data Protection Act, have been advised by SEC to accelerate the following, four main issues.(1) Considering appropriate legal b...
SEC Secretary-General Ruenvadee Suwanmongkol said, "Under the current global situation that technology and user behavior has changed dramatically, which may come with cybersecurity risks, SEC has realized the importance of business preparation in this matter. For this reason, SEC is set to launch an online training under the topic of “Incident Response from the Pentester’s Eyes View” and “Cybersecurity Incident Playbook: Priorities & Best Practices”, which will be graced by the presences...
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...
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...
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...
SEC has opened for public comments to revise the regulations on supervision of fintech as there are some business operators applying fintech to improve their service efficiency for investors. For example, algorithm or computer coding has been used in the process of investment analysis, advice, and investment decision-making. Therefore, it could lead to new services offering and help investors to have alternatives by using the capital market to accumulate wealth in the long run.SEC studied...