Minority Shareholder. “During the course of assessment, the SEC proactively participated in the revision and promotion of various measures to enhance minority investor protection, resulting in the

sectors convenience for issuing debt securities for fund mobilization while putting in place an appropriate mechanism for investor protection as debt securities is indeed an investment choice. Hence, the

At the academic seminar entitled “Investor protection mechanism and building confidence in the capital market” hosted by  SEC on Wednesday 20 November 2019, experts from Australia and Malaysia took

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....

Real estate-backed ICO is in the form of fundraising and benefit generation similar to REIT. However, the regulations governing real estate-backed ICO with regard to investor protection mechanism

supervision of subordinated perpetual bonds to strengthen investor protection and simultaneously develop the debt securities market. In this regard, such type of bond to be offered for sale to the general

SEC had proposed, in principle, to amend the definition of major shareholder of the securities companies which at present is determined based on the “number of voting shares” to the “number of

Essentially, the amendments would apply to digital asset business operators, i.e., exchanges, brokers and dealers, and cover the licensing process, from change to the fee payment time frame to extension to the time frame of readiness preparation for business commencement in case of necessity. In addition, the regulations governing key aspects of digital asset business operation would be amended. For example, data storage system, management system and custody of client assets. This is to pr...