The SEC's strategy combines preventive safeguards, stricter enforcement, and inter-agency coordination to address the problem at its root. Intermediaries will be required to verify clients' income and occupations more rigorously while monitoring trading behaviour for inconsistencies, noted the regulator. The regulator is also broadening its oversight of major shareholders and beneficial owners of licensed entities, targeting increasingly complex ownership structures. The SEC plans to enhance its ability to trace fund flows to their ultimate destinations, improving detection of suspicious activity. Pornanong Budsaratragoon, secretary-general of the SEC, said coordinated measures among relevant agencies would deliver tangible results by targeting illicit financial flows with greater precision.

Source: Bangkok Post April 02, 2026 23:04 UTC