Capital markets in Thailand offer investors a growing range of options with an increasing share of the country’s 65m citizens, adding to a more liquid retail investor base. Tax incentives to encourage initial public offerings (IPOs) have led to an equities market of many choices, and in recent years the fixed-income options have increased as well....
In many ways Thailand’s banking sector looks much like those of its neighbours: tightly regulated, well capitalised and highly risk-averse. Just as in other countries in the region, including Malaysia and Indonesia, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis had a formative effect on bankers. Risk management has improved since the crisis, and central...
THE COMPANY: Advanced Info Service (ADVANC) was established in 1989 and is the largest mobile operator in Thailand, with a 46% subscriber market share and more than 97% nationwide coverage. ADVANC has been a publicly listed company on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) since 1991. As of March 2012 the...
The 2011 elections gave the government a strong mandate to regain a proactive international role, stressing commitment to democracy, justice and reconciliation. Following the 2006 military coup d’état, Thai prime ministers were denied meetings with the US president, a historically routine matter for a close US ally in Southeast Asia. The...
Current economic strength has come from exports to the world’s most-developed economies; the result of decades of consistent economic policy on foreign investment. A combination of incentives for foreign manufacturers, low-cost labour and economic zones called industrial estates have attracted globalised firms, along with their suppliers in the...
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