The Thailand Financial Instrument Information Center (TFIIC) was established from multilateral coordination of five organizations in order to support the country to have sufficient financial instrument data for systematic data tracking, to be beneficial for policy makers, investors, and market participants in carrying out structural analysis, and to track the development of Thai money market. The sufficient data is an essential fundamental in supporting continuous economic development in the long run and a tool for tracking economic stability.

TFIIC members comprise of:

• Bank of Thailand (BOT)
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Public Debt Management Office (PDMO)
• The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)
• The Thai Bond Market Association (ThaiBMA)

Bank of Thailand (BOT)

The BOT is the central bank of the country. According to Bank of Thailand Act in 1942 that was additionally amended in 2008, BOT has many important roles; for example,

• Formulate monetary policies by the Monetary Policy Committee
• Act as the registrar of government securities, state-owned enterprises, and financial institutions established under special laws
• Control the foreign exchange according to the Exchange Control Act
• Supervise financial institutions according to international standards and monitor risks in order to promote financial institutions
• Compile important macroeconomic statistics; Monetary and Financial Statistics and Balance of Payment Statistics according to international standards
• Provide banking facilities for financial institutions by acting as lender of last resort and also the custodian for financial institutions.

From the aforesaid roles, data from the TFIIC will support the BOT’s roles in formulating monetary policy, financial institutions policy, stabilizing financial system, exchange rate and price, supervising financial institutions in investing in securities and compiling macroeconomic statistics.

for more details    https://www.bot.or.th

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

SEC monitors and develops Thai capital market to be effective, justice, transparent, and reliable. Main roles of the SEC are specified as followings.

• Develop Thai capital market to be an important alternative for fund raisers and investors
• Build a system and mechanism for helping investors to be protected and to be able to protect themselves
• Maintain for making related parties be confident and rely on working mechanism of the middle agent and organizations in the capital market
• Be an organization that is justice, transparent, business understandable, in trend with situations, and to be a rigid and fair law keeper

For achieving duties to monitor and develop the capital market, SEC can utilize the financial instrument data from the TFIIC for revealing the financial instrument data to investors, tracking any fund raising of financial instruments in the capital market, the movement of prices and instrument holders, and protecting investors. The SEC shall monitor instrument issuers and related parties to follow standards and corporate governance including with the studies of investors’ developments and needs in new products.

for more details https://www.sec.or.th/EN/Pages/Home.aspx

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Public Debt Management Office (PDMO)

PDMO is the government office to manage the public debts under related laws and regulations. PDMO has important roles and followings.

• Manage public debts proactively to achieve low costs subject to acceptable risks
• Develop the domestic bond market
• Oversee public debt management operations
• Coordinate and make solutions in the policy level and conduct financial and academic assistant plans of the foreign sources of investment funds

PDMO, the issuer of government debt securities, can utilize the financial instrument data from the TFIIC for analyzing data in order to issue government bonds and effectively specify development policies of the primary market for providing the continuous supply to the market.

for more details http://www.pdmo.go.th

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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)

The SET has important roles according to Securities and Exchange Acts as followings.

• Serve as a center for the trading of listed securities and provide the essential systems needed to facilitate securities trading
• Be a clearing house, securities depository center, securities registrar, and other similar activities
• Undertake any other business approved by the SEC

For creating the working effectiveness and accurate data, the SET can use the financial instrument data from the TFIIC in the part of securities and transactions to improve processes and increase the effectiveness of ISIN services, internal working processes that will reduce the redundant working steps.

for more details http://www.set.or.th

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The Thai Bond Market Association (ThaiBMA)

The ThaiBMA is the association related with securities businesses under the section 230 of Securities and Exchange Acts 1992. The ThaiBMA has roles as followings.

• Be the Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) for overseeing and monitoring members to ensure fairness and efficiency in debt securities trading.
• Be the Bond Information Center
• Serve to enhance standards within the marketplace through extensive consultation with market participants
• Develop and implement several key data essential for market development

For enhancing the effectiveness of the ThaiBMA’s business conduction as the central data center of debt securities, the ThaiBMA can use the financial instrument data submitted from other multilateral organizations to fulfill the data of debt securities especially other information that are not derived from trading reports.

for more details http://www.thaibma.or.th