Bangkok, 9 June 2023 – The Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking public comments on proposed subordinate regulations under the Emergency Decree on Special Purpose Juridic Persons for Securitization B.E. 2540 (1997) (SPV Act)* to provide private sectors with clear guidelines for conducting business and complying with the law.
The SPV Act grants the SEC Board the power to issue subordinate regulations
regarding the criteria for defining future receivables as well as regulations
regarding the criteria, conditions, and procedures for change of agent to
collect and receive payments of debt. Currently, regulations have not been
prescribed for the said matters.
To ensure that the private sector will have
clear guidelines for conducting business and properly complying with the law, the
SEC is therefore proposing additional regulations the essences of which are as
follows:
(1) Definition of future receivables under Section 3 of the SPV Act
to provide the private sector clear guidelines for using future receivables for
securitization;
(2) Criteria, conditions, and procedures for disclosing information
related to transfer of assets which are rights of claim and the change of the
agent to collect and receive payments of debt in accordance with Paragraph 2 of
Section 15 of the SPV Act. This would allow the private sector clear and common
guidelines for notifying facts related to acceptance of assets which are rights
of claim and the change of agent to collect and receive payments of debt.
For
further details of this public hearing, please visit https://www.sec.or.th/TH/Pages/PB_Detail.aspx?SECID=914. Stakeholders
and interested parties are welcome to submit comments and suggestions via the
website or email: debt@sec.or.th. The public
hearing process ends on 10 July 2023.
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Remark*
Securitization
means acceptance of transfer of assets for an issuance and offer of securities
for sale to investors, providing that proceeds given to the securities holders
depend on a flow of receipts generated from the transferred assets.