The SEC has continued to work closely with partner agencies in both the public and private sectors to prevent and suppress technology‑related crimes. This includes the meeting of the Subcommittee on Financial Data Connectivity for Enhancing the Monitoring of Suspicious Financial Transactions held in January 2026, which resolved that the SEC, in collaboration with the Anti‑Money Laundering Office (AMLO), would issue interim guidance for digital asset business operators, in the meantime as AMLO prepares to issue regulations under the Anti‑Money‑Laundering Act.

Following coordination with AMLO, the SEC considers it necessary to establish requirements governing the risk management systems of digital asset business operators, ensuring that the operators have information accompanying all digital asset transfer transactions to support monitoring and prevent the misuse of digital assets in technology‑related crimes. The key principles include:

(1) Digital asset business operators must establish policies or procedures for receiving and transmitting digital‑asset transfer information on behalf of customers. The operators are required to collect transaction data, customer information, and the customer’s counterparty information for anti‑money‑laundering (AML) verification and related risk‑management purposes, and to retain information accompanying all digital‑asset transfer transactions for at least five years.

          (2) The ordering digital asset operator must transmit the digital asset transfer order together with the relevant transaction information, including the originator’s and the beneficiary’s information, to the beneficiary digital asset operator.

          (3) Digital asset business operators must implement risk management measures related to the transferring and receiving of digital asset transfers as prescribed.

Mrs. Pornanong Budsaratragoon, SEC Secretary-General, stated that “this initiative will enable digital asset business operators to obtain the necessary information for verifying and preventing the misuse of digital assets in technology‑related crimes, enhance the effectiveness of asset tracing and recovery, and help prevent the use of the digital asset market as a channel for money laundering activities in line with international standards. Moreover, this effort forms an important part of the SEC’s preventive‑focused approach under its strategic plan by strengthening supervisory measures for intermediaries before damage occurs.”

The consultation paper is available on the SEC website (www.sec.or.th) and on the Legal Hub (law.go.th).  Stakeholders and interested parties are invited to submit comments and suggestions via the SEC website or by email to titibhorn@sec.or.th, nattira@sec.or.th, or  jiratchaya@sec.or.th. The public hearing ends on 25 March 2026.