Annual Report 2017

87 3. Emerging Risk Digital technology currently plays an important role in the financial sector. SET realizes that it will affect business operation currently and in the long run. Therefore, SET has to adapt to this dynamic change to maintain competitiveness and seek potential business opportunities to enhance value-added to related parties in the industry. SET has established a working group to monitor technology trends which may affect business operation of the organization and the capital market as a whole. This covers setting up a business framework to cope with the blockchain technology to support startup developments in the capital market, to enhance knowledge and marketing of the financial technology (fintech) to create a network of digital systemdevelopment for the capital market among others.