funds with constant NAV and exempting business operators from performing the customer risk profile evaluation if the only investment product they offer is low-risk money-market fund. The

Bangkok, 24 October 2017 ? The SEC has revoked the approval for Mr. Pisist Phong-pheuag, then working for Apple Wealth Securities Public Company Limited, as a capital market investment consultant for 10 years on account of deceiving several clients, falsifying documents, spending clients? money for his own interest, and using clients? trading accounts to trade securities for himself.Following a complaint inspection report from Apple Wealth Securities, the SEC has investigated further and found t...

Bangkok, 24 October 2017 ? The SEC has revoked the approval for Mr. Pisist Phong-pheuag, then working for Apple Wealth Securities Public Company Limited, as a capital market investment consultant for 10 years on account of deceiving several clients, falsifying documents, spending clients? money for his own interest, and using clients? trading accounts to trade securities for himself.Following a complaint inspection report from Apple Wealth Securities, the SEC has investigated further and found t...

Bangkok, 5 September 2017 ? The SEC has filed a criminal complaint against Mr. Wichai Thavornwattanayong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inter Far East Energy Corporation Public Company Limited (IFEC), with the Economic Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police (ECD) for committing dishonest acts to gain unfair advantage for himself or other persons.  During the month of December 2016, the number of IFEC directors was insufficient to form a quorum as required by law. Wichai, in...

persons are: (1) {A}, (2) {B}, (3) {C}, (4) {D}, and (5) {E}. The SEC has also banned the persons in (2) - (4) from performing duties as a branch manager in a business related to capital market. All of the

Bangkok, 27 September 2023 – SEC has ordered a revocation of an approval of an investment consultant, Mr. Phisit Taninrungroj, for 10 years for committing dishonest acts by using clients’ trading accounts to seek benefits for himself and the others, a misconduct of client asset exploitation. At the time of his wrongdoing, he was employed by RHB Securities (Thailand) PLC (RHB).Following a complaint from an investor who is not a client of RHB and the SEC’s further investigation into the cas...

Following investors’ complaints and SEC’s further investigation, it was found that during 2013 – early 2015, a group of persons opened a learning course on the topic of technical analysis and gave advice on derivatives investment without approval through many channels such as website, YouTube, email, phone, SMS and Line application. {A} and {B}, then investment consultants at KGI, cooperated with the group of persons above in opening trading accounts for investors to make derivatives inves...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with the reports from the Krungthai Bank PLC and the SEC’s further investigation, found that in November 2021 Saowarat had misappropriated her client assets, redeeming the mutual fund units without client consent in the following manner, causing damage to the client, who had completely compensated, in the amount totaling 1,027,000 baht:           1. Using the client’s identification card left with her to verify the identity, the password of th...

The proposed amendments are grouped into six key areas as follows:         (1) Digital Capital Market Promotion: updating legal frameworks to fully support electronic processes in the capital market and introducing provisions for Digital Infrastructure Main Operator;  (2) Supervision of Securities and Derivatives Business Operators: revising regulations for major shareholders of business operators and adding oversight provisions related to the personnel in securities and derivatives businesses; ...

Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECSD) on the ground of performing duties dishonestly when he failed to disclose IFEC default on its bills of exchange. In addition, the SEC has instructed IFEC directors