Thai Bourse Mulls Relaxing Rules to Boost Market Liquidity (1)

The Stock Exchange of Thailand is considering easing some of its rules to boost market liquidity next year, and expects the recent stocks rally to encourage more initial public offerings, President Asadej Kongsiri said.

“In the past 20 plus months, we are putting a lot of regulations that have impacted liquidity,” Asadej said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday. “We’ll look to review that early next year.”

Thai authorities have tightened ruleson short selling and high-frequency trading in a bid to restore investor confidence in what was once the world’s worst-performing equity market. The crackdown came as ...