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USD futures to manage exchange rate risks more effectively.
The Bank of Thailand has also approved in principle in allowing
all TFEX full license members to trade USD futures.
In line with the government policy on the merger of the
Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET) to become the
center of agricultural futures trading under TFEX, in 2015, TFEX
made progress, with the cooperation from the government agencies
consisting of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce,
the SEC, the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET), and
the Office of the Agricultural Futures Trading Commission (AFTC),
in the policy making, regulatory adjustment, and trading preparation
involvingmember companies and stakeholders. TFEX also organized
training programs to enhance the agricultural futures knowledge
among entrepreneurs and investors, participated by 70 executives
and staff from various groups within the agricultural futures business
sector. The first agricultural derivatives product, the ribbed smoked
rubber sheets grade 3 (RSS3 Futures), was launch in 2016.
Thailand Futures Exchange
Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) has developed many
types of products and services to add investment options and
facilitate investors’ effective use of TFEX products as investment
tools and for risk management tools, as follows:
Boosting liquidity for the SET50 Index Options, with
cooperation from member companies through the Market
Maker project, for four futures products as well as
encouraging investors to use “Options Wizards” as an aid
for novice investors to make investment decisions when
investing in the SET50 Index Options.
Adding 10 more underlying stocks to the Single Stock
Futures for a total of 70 securities, so that investors have
a broader range of choices to use as investment and risk
management tools.
Raising the holdings status for USD futures for investors to
10,000 futures contracts from the previous 5,000 contracts,
equivalent to USD 10 million. This will enable investors to use