Under the IOSCO guidelines, international
regulatory agencies jointly promote and endorse the financial education and
investor protection campaign during the first week of October each year. The
SEC Thailand has consecutively taken part in this global event since 2017,
reflecting our organization’s dedication to enhance the public’s capital market
investment knowledge and digital financial literacy, while ensuring investor
protection. These efforts aim to build financial resilience and financial
well-being for the people, especially during their retirement years, in line
with the WIW 2023 main themes adopted by the IOSCO.
Mrs. Pornanong Budsaratragoon, SEC Secretary-General, said: “As one of the
SEC’s key missions is to promote financial stability for sustainable well-being
of the Thai people, provision of adequate and accurate financial knowledge and
information for their proper decision-making is crucial, particularly in
today’s investment world where advanced technology enables easy and instant
access to a wide variety of investment options, including those innovative
ones. In addition, publicity of alerts and warnings to raise awareness and
educate people about financial frauds and scams, in new and old forms, is also
essential. Insightful investment knowledge will help investors take precautions
and protect themselves from falling victim to those fraudsters and scammers and
thus reduce investment risks to a certain degree.”
During the campaign week, the SEC
Thailand will reach out to the general public through the launch of a series of
educational motion graphics and infographics with the key messages under the
afore-mentioned theme. The series, consisting of the following seven episodes, will
be released one episode per day in chronological order:
(1)
Basic investment knowledge;
(2)
Understanding investment products;
(3)
Understanding digital assets and
related risks;
(4)
Investment diversification and
monitoring;
(5)
Understanding digital financial
technology that enables investment accessibility;
(6)
Five red flags of “exaggeration” to
look out for when solicited to invest;
(7)
Getting to know the “Scam Center”, a
knowledge hub for prevention of financial frauds and scams.
Please follow the launch of the first
video clip on Monday, October 2, 2023, at 10:00 AM via SEC Thailand's social
media channels:
Facebook page "สำนักงาน กลต.": https://www.facebook.com/sec.or.th
Facebook page "Start-to-invest": https://www.facebook.com/StartToInvest
Youtube "ThaiSEC": https://www.youtube.com/@ThaiSEC
Tiktok "ThaiSEC_Official": https://www.tiktok.com/@thaisec_official.
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