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revocation. Investors can conduct these transactions
through our depository participants.
Regulation:
SET group supervises trading activities
of all market participants to ensure that the market is
fair, orderly and transparent. SET group also requires
listed companies to disclose accurate, transparent and
timely information to investors and the public.
2. Derivatives market
SET group operates a derivatives market that trades
derivatives products of which underlyings include
securities, commodities, foreign exchange, fixed
income and interest rate. SET group is also a
clearinghouse for transactions occurring in the
derivatives market. In addition, SET group supervises
all market participants’ activities to ensure that the
market is fair, orderly and transparent.
3. Technology services
SET group provides both front and back office
services for members, e.g., Front Office Service
Bureau (FSB), Internet trading system and Back Office
Service Bureau (BSB). These centralized services help
market participants to utilize the benefit of economy
scale to expand their business and to shorten their
development time for new products and services. In
addition, SET’s Internet trading system (SETTRADE) is well
recognized and is utilized by 35 out of 38 brokerage
firms in Thailand.
Also, SET group develops and disseminates stock
indexes and provides trading market data and listed
companies’ information to data vendors and investors
so that investors can utilize them for investment
decisions.
4. Registrar services
SET group acts as a registrar for stocks and
maintain the Register Book that contains accurate and
complete shareholder information. Our services also
cover information of shareholder benefits and connect
registrar services with a direct linkage to the Securities
Depository Center for the benefits of listed companies
and investors.
Furthermore, SET group has secured data storage
and processing system with the corresponding backups
ready for securing the continuity of our services. Our
vault and data management systems have been in place
to secure the rights of the securities holders and for
verification and risk minimizing purposes.
Capital market development
SET group is committed to promoting long-term
development of Thai capital market and becoming a
pillar for sustainable capital market development which
enhance competitiveness of Thai economy and support
capital market’s stakeholders and Thai society. SET
Group has set four major missions as follows:
1. Capital market education
SET Group organizes the educational development
into four aspects according to target groups which are
1) Professional Education, 2) Investor Education, 3)
General Public Education, focusing on financial
literacy for Thai people and the use of education centers,
e.g., Maruey Knowledge & Resource Center and SET
Investment Center and 4) Executive Education,
focusing on educating public sector and business leaders
about capital market and building a network among
capital market leaders.
2. Sustainable development
SET Group promotes Corporate Governance (CG)
to be on par with international standards and Social
Responsibility (SR) to be integrated in business operation
and to build ecosystem which can support SR in Thai
capital market through encouraging local institutional
investors to invest responsibly and through the founding
of SR hub for government, educational organization
and Thai people. SET Group also encourages listed
companies to conform with criteria defined by Dow
Jones Sustainability Index.