Annual Report 2017

23 Bureau (BSB). These centralized services support market participants to utilize the benefit of economy scale to expand their business and to shorten their development time for new products and services. Also, SET Group has a market data business that develops and disseminates stock indexes and provides trading market data and listed companies’ information to data vendors and investors. In addition, SET Group has a FundConnext business that provides a centralized mutual fund platform to connect among asset management companies and selling agents. The platform helps to broaden mutual fund access and to improve market efficiency. 4. Registrar services SET Group acts as a registrar for equity products 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 back- ups ready to ensure 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 purposes. Capital Market Development SET Group is committed to promoting a long-term development of Thai capital market to become a sustainable capital market that will improve competitiveness of Thai economy and support the quality growth of capital market’s stakeholders and Thai society. SET Group has set four major capital market development strategies as follows: 1. Capital market education SET Group organizes the educational development into five aspects according to target groups that are (1) Professional Education, (2) Enterprise Education, (3) Investor Education, (4) General Public Education, focusing on financial literacy for Thai people and the use of education centers, e.g., Maruey Knowledge & Resource Center, INVESTORY and SET Investment Center, and (5) Executive Education, focusing on educating public sector and business leaders about capital market and building a network among capital market leaders not only in Thailand but also in CLMV region. 2. Sustainable development SET Group promotes Corporate Governance (CG) and Sustainable Development (SD) to be integrated in business model and operation and to build ecosystem that will support SD in Thai capital market, such as encouraging local institutional investors to invest responsibly and motivating listed companies to invest and collaborate with Social Enterprises. SET Group also encourages listed companies to conform to criteria defined by global players in sustainability field such as DJSI. 3. Capital market development infrastructure SET Group fortifies capital market’s infrastructure for Thai economy and society by supporting projects of various Thai capital market associations and advocating changes in rules and regulations that are barriers to capital market development. 4. Capital market research SET Group conducts and disseminates relevant capital market research and leading indicators of Thai capital market to benefit stakeholders and Thai investors. SET Group will continue to establish a platform where market practitioners and academic researchers can contribute the knowledge for the long- term development of Thai capital market. In addition, SET Group promotes the capital market research to be more accessible by Thai general public, as well as organizes international capital market conferences.