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2) Becoming GMS connector
SET has continually adjusted various measures
to initiate more varieties of funding channels and to
support fundraising for foreign businesses in the Thai
capital market. This is consistent with the strategic plan
in the role of GMS Connector, promoting fundraising and
investment in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).
This aims to boost economic, trade and investment
development among neighboring countries, growing
together. In 2015, SET will announce the criteria for
its primary listing of foreign companies on SET and
listing of infrastructure trust for investment in
infrastructure in foreign countries, such as power
plants and telecommunication systems, etc.
Simultaneously, SET cooperates and supports the
capital market knowledge and expertise among the GMS
nations. After the first Capital Market Education Forum
in 2013, concrete actions, have been taken, as follows:
• The Securities and Exchange Commission of
Cambodia and The Cambodia Securities Exchange
issued the training criteria for license renewal and
cooperated with SET in organizing license renewal
training for personnel in securities business in the
Kingdom of Cambodia. It was held for the first time
in February 2014.
• Lao Securities Exchange, in cooperation with SET,
organized the first “Train the Trainers” course in
Lao PDR in September 2014, in order to groom
personnel of various organizations related to Lao
capital market to become skillful trainers and then
transfer the knowledge to investors and relevant
parties.
Another major activity was the hosting of GMS
Capital Market Education Forum 2014 in Chiang Mai.
The annual forum, hosted by SET for the second time,
was participated by top executives, capital market
experts, and representatives from the Office of the
SEC and central banks of the GMS nations. The
consensus was to work together in developing investment
literacy among investors through cooperation with leading
universities in each nation, serving as the center for
dissemination of knowledge to investors, the general
public and professionals. The contents would also have
to be developed, with channels of distribution to reach
the current and potential investors.