Bangkok--20 May--SET
www.settrade.com, one of The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)’s websites, has again won the Government Information Technology Services’ prestigious Truehits Web Award, which is an accepted standard on website ranking. Its website, www.settrade.com, was the Most Visited Finance Site in the Banking-Finance category for the sixth year running. The latest improvement to this website was to add One-Stop-Service to retrieve data on equities, derivatives, or mutual funds all from one place.
Truehits Web Awards are given to the 50 most-visited websites nationwide and the most-visited site in each category,” revealed SET Group Head, Market Development Santi Kiranand.
“We are proud to receive this honor for the sixth consecutive year, as it shows our success in consistently developing and distributing the high quality and quantity of investment information vitally needed by investors and the general public. The award shows that www.settrade.com continues to reach its objective as being the main information center for investment, economics, news, reliable analysis. It is well-suited to those who wish to invest and follow the economic situation to make effective decisions; for example, SAA Consensus presents key figures on each listed firm, and analysts on this program give useful advice to investors.
“Besides, the Web board is a channel to support opinion exchanges among investors. www.settrade.com is renovating a new version to provide multi-market data. These markets are the equity market, Bond Electronic Exchange (BEX), Thailand Futures Exchange PCL (TFEX) and The Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET), We have also added more functions to provide information on securities in response to the growth of investment in SET’s market capitalization ” added Mr. Santi.
In Q1/2009, the website added RSS (Really Simple Syndication), property funds, and FTSE SET Shariah Index for fast and complete service when searching for information from different sources. In Q3/2009, we will unveil a new version of www.settrade.com, one which will supply information from every Thai market, including BEX, AFET, gold futures, derivative warrants, and the performance rankings of equity funds, including LTFs and RMFs. Investors will also be able to access a multitude of other investment-related information, e.g., foreign prices of gold and other metals, inflation rates, consumer indices, and even bond analyses. News coverage will be broadened to 12 topic areas, with releases in each area coming from the leading 14 news sources.
“The revised website will be another factor that increases the capabilities of investors and raises their confidence in Thailand, by conveniently supplying the key comprehensive information needed for prudent investment at low cost and in a timely manner,” concluded Mr. Santi.
Press office, please contact Public Relations Unit, the Corporate Communications Dept.:Ladawan Kantawong Tel: 0-2229-2036 / Kanokwan Khemmalai Tel: 0-2229-2048 / Panitee Chatpolarak Tel: 0-2229-2792