Bangkok, January 21, 2014 ?  The SEC revised rules governing provident fund investment for more clarity and flexibility in line with international standards. The new rules have become effective in

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...

proposed amendments to such criteria to reduce redundancy and inject flexibility for reporting parties while ensuring that data users receive sufficient information within an appropriate time. Having

SEC is opening for public comments on the regulations to supervise private funds as now business operators have developed a variety of services to satisfy customers. Therefore, SEC intends to amend its rules to be more flexible without too high operating costs, and cope with more diverse patterns of business operations. This revision focuses on the principle-based regulations, instead of fixed details, that cover several issues such as personnel’s well-preparedness, investment management,...

SEC is opening for public comments on the regulations to supervise private funds as the business operators have developed a variety of services to satisfy customers. Therefore, SEC intends to amend its rules to be more flexible without high operating costs, and cope with more diverse patterns of business operations. This revision focuses on the principle-based regulations, instead of fixed details, that cover several issues such as personnel readiness, investment management, receiving and...

The amended rules on approval of ICO portals give the applicants more flexibility and reduce risk on developing/investing in high-cost  work systems while the approval process is underway

with fair treatment and transparency, and increase flexibility for management of member contribution. Most respondents agreed with the proposed amendments and suggested further details for the