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Global recovery to boost profit of securities firms
published : 17 May 2021 at 04:30
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The performance of securities firms this year will improve significantly because the daily trading value on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has increased to nearly 100 billion baht per day, says SCB Securities (SCBS).
The SET reported the average trading value on the SET and Market for Alternative Investment (MAI) for the first four months this year was 96.1 billion baht.
The SET stated individual investors are eagerly seeking high-yield returns from the capital market.
Moreover, the number of new investors has increased by roughly 700,000 trading accounts in the first four months, totalling over 4 million accounts at present.
3 Central Retail Corp (CRC) executives pose for a group photo at a press conference for the company s initial public offering on Jan 17, 2020. (Bangkok Post file photo)
Thailand grabbed the No.2 spot for initial public offerings (IPOs) in Asia in 2020, raising US$4.96 billion in total, behind only China if excluding cross-listed shares from other bourses such as infrastructure funds (IFFs) and real estate investment trusts (REITs).
The number of IPO launches from the start of the year to Dec 25 stood at 26 deals, excluding IFFs and REITS, below the 28 recorded last year, said Soraphol Tulayasathien, senior executive-vice president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET).