SET News 2/2023
                                                 January 10, 2023

SET unveils 2023-2025 strategic plan, bolstering the Thai capital market with 
new economy companies and bridging today & tomorrow investments

BANGKOK, January 8, 2023 - The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) unveils a 
three-year strategic plan (2023-2025) that steers towards mutual growth for
businesses, industries, the capital market, society and the country for the
greater opportunity for all (Growth for Business, Industry, Society). The plan
focuses on developing a central platform, bridging the ecosystems of today's and
tomorrow's investments, and making fund raising and investment simple for
entrepreneurs and investors.

SET will also address diverse preferences covering from being the fund-raising 
destination for businesses of all sizes, enticing companies in the new economy
for listing, accommodating the fund-raising via digital tokens, launching
small-ticket investment products to exploring to introduce environment-linked
products. Aside, SET and its partners will pursue internal and external
sustainability for Thailand's balanced and sustainable growth.

SET President Pakorn Peetathawatchai revealed that in the three years 
(2023-2025), amid the rapid changes in technology, consumer behavior, volatility
of capital flows, uncertainties in economic recovery in light of high inflation
and geopolitical risks, SET places importance on boosting the Thai capital
market's competitiveness and concurrently promoting sustainability in
environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects, for the benefits to all
parties under the vision of "To Make the Capital Market 'Work' for Everyone".
This will be achieved through four strategies.

Strategy 1: Make fundraising & investment simple
-	Enhance fund-raising opportunity: Making it easier for businesses of every 
size in tapping funds from the stock market. Particular supports will be
provided to new economy companies from the filing stage along with preparations
for potential businesses. SMEs and startups are in the focal point for an access
to funding, on top of LiVE Academy and LiVE Platform as Thai Digital Assets
Exchange (TDX) will be developed as a trading platform for investment and
utility tokens, scheduled to be operational in the third quarter of 2023.
-	Enhance investment opportunities: Raising a variety of small-ticket products 
for small investors, studying environment-linked investment products and trading
hour extension for greater convenience, enhancing efficiency in account opening
to provide opportunities to access the capital market easier and more
convenient while upgrading Settrade platform to be "Capital Market Super App" to
efficiently connect investment opportunities in a diverse range of asset
classes.
 
Strategy 2: Move industry & ecosystem with standard:  Developing a new trading 
platform within the first quarter of 2023 to raise efficiency of investment
ecosystem and accommodate the development of new products, strengthening
cybersecurity in collaboration with other players in the industry and amending
related trading regulations to be in line with the changing market condition and
 the new trading system.

Strategy 3: Match partners for synergy:  Improving information disclosure via 
SMART Marketplace with analytical data and functions, materializing thematic and
issue-based researches for further capital market development, putting listed
companies' ESG data on ESG Data Platform that will start distributing data in
the second quarter of 2023 and devising ESG Ratings to support of launch of
ESG-linked products.

Strategy 4: Merge ESG with substance: Deploying ESG in driving internal 
operations and collaborative efforts with external partners towards sustainable
growth.
-	E (Environmental) dimension: Grooming ESG workforce for the capital market and
educational institutions, establishing ESG Champion on environmental
stewardship via ESG Academy, and creating Climate Care Platform that includes an
environmental management function and linkup with partners. Moreover, SET aims
to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions, with the Cloud-based emission
reduction infrastructure and energy efficiency enhancement of the green data
center.
-	S (Social) dimension: Promoting financial literacy among the retirees and 
low-income groups, measuring Thai people's financial literacy for the design of
right contents and communications channels, enhancing the capabilities of
entrepreneurs and particularly family businesses via LiVE Platform, advocating
social enterprises (SEs), promoting entrepreneurship in collaboration with
universities and vocational institutions, and preparing SET human resources as
well as improving their skillsets continuously to drive the capital market
forward.
-	G (Governance) dimension: Accelerating the amendments on supervisory and 
trading regulations to be appropriate and fit well with the current situation,
devising efficient supervisory tools for new products and cooperating with
government sector and regulatory bodies as well as other organizations on
long-term capital market development. Internally, SET is prepared to strengthen
organizational risk management with the deployment of technology and analytical
data in constantly improving work processes.

SET expects these four strategies to help create more opportunities to 
stakeholders in expanding fund-raising and investment opportunities for
businesses and investors, upgrade infrastructure that will accommodate the
capital market's growth, and safeguard society and the environment to achieve a
balanced and sustainable growth for businesses, the capital market, the economy,
 society and the country.
 
Significant milestones and achievements in 2022

Opportunities for all
-	IPOs' offering size amounted to THB 127.84 billion (approx. USD 3.46 billion),
the highest in ASEAN and the fourth in Asia. Nine companies were in the new
economy, increasing the market's diversity and attractiveness.
-	SET had the highest liquidity among ASEAN exchanges, the position it has been 
holding since 2012, with average daily trading value of THB 76.77 billion.
-	TFEX saw average 565,627 contracts traded daily (The second ranking in ASEAN 
according to an unofficial data as of November 2022).
-	Two DRx products were issued to give investors, particularly small-time ones, 
a return-generating opportunity and to promote the diversification of investment
overseas: "AAPL80X" with Apple Inc as underlying assets and "TSLA80X" with
Tesla Inc as underlying assets. Both companies are listed on Nasdaq, the United
States.
-	LiVE Exchange (LiVEx) welcomed three new listings: Advance Web Service pcl 
(AWS22), Sitron Power pcl (SITRON22) and Storage Asia pcl (ISTORE22).
-	SET launched guidelines on process and operating mechanism improvement for 
securities trading. The adjustments included known your customers, customer data
center development, securities listing, trading regulations, and data check to
enhance efficiency for all stakeholders.

Development of entrusted infrastructure innovations
-	TDX was granted a business license and its system is ready for operation. At 
present, TDX joins hands with three ICO portal service providers.
-	FundConnext saw the average 31,400 daily transactions of mutual funds, and an 
increase of 11 service users (to 78 selling agents and asset management
companies, representing 73 percent of the mutual fund industry).
-	FinNet's payment transactions accounted for 25 percent of the capital market 
and continuously extended its services comprising Interbank, Intrabank, QR Code
and Direct Debit Registration (DDR) to other investment products in the capital
market to cover transactions of mutual funds and derivatives.
-	e-Meeting was developed as an end-to-end meeting solution for the new normal. 
In 2022, 80 listed companies used the service.
-	SMART Marketplace included ESG data and listed companies' data in its data 
feed API channel for over 50 companies and continued its service expansion.
-	ESG Data Platform was launched as ESG database, to demonstrate listed 
companies' sustainability to investors and the society at large.

Sustainability Promotion
-	Improve Thais' financial literacy through media under "Happy Money - Know how 
to overcome debts" campaign with 4.5 million views as 180,632 entrepreneurs
participated in LiVE Platform.
-	Promote social enterprises with 62 business co-creation deals with listed 
companies and social enterprises.
-	26 listed companies included in DJSI Index by S&P Global, the highest in ASEAN
 for nine consecutive years.
-	More than 400 listed companies taking part in Climate Care Collaboration as a 
collective effort in combating the global warming, while "Care the Bear" Project
being adopted at Thailand-hosted APEC 2022 and SET Building achieving the
carbon neutrality goal.

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