On 12 July, AMCHAM held a Spotlight Session with Ditrolic Energy. Experts from Ditrolic Energy presented on the trends of electrical prices in Malaysia, solutions against rising energy costs, how clean energy solutions benefit businesses, and net zero solutions.

On 11 July, AMCHAM held a Spotlight Session with Dropbox Sign and Donovan & Ho, on adopting e-signature to advance your organization’s ESG goals.

Companies from the United States have shown significant interest in exploring greenfield entries into Malaysia, said Deputy Finance Minister II Steven Sim Chee Keong.

In sharing the outcome of a recent meeting with the American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Sim said US business communities who have established a base here are also keen to expand their operations locally.

Malaysia this year will launch two more national strategic energy roadmaps as the Asean nation further embraces the energy transition.

“Of paramount importance is the national energy transition roadmap, which will outline the overarching strategy and high-impact initiatives to expedite the energy transition efforts,” Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.

AMCHAM will be organizing a Healthcare Forum on Wednesday, 26 July 2023 at Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel and we are delighted to have YBhg. Datuk Dr. Muhammad Radzi bin Abu Hassan, Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia as our Guest of Honour. This forum will bring together an ensemble of expert speakers to discuss how companies can help strengthen and expand the healthcare system in Malaysia.

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The digital economy continues to show strong momentum in 2022 with RM42 billion and RM4.76 billion worth of new foreign direct digital investments and domestic direct digital investments approved respectively.

With the proliferation of broadband internet to most primary and secondary cities, and with 88% of the population having access to the internet, it is timely to look beyond a physically-confined zone.

Citi has launched CitiDirect Commercial Banking, bringing together its products and services into a single digital platform to address the needs of Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) clients.

Currently live in the US, CCB plans to pilot the platform in 2H2023 across Singapore, Hong Kong, India and the UK.

KPMG said on Tuesday (July 11) it will spend US$2 billion (RM9.2 billion) on artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services through an expanded partnership with Microsoft, closely following Accenture in betting on the latest technologies to weather a slowdown in advisory deals.

Three key questions lie at the heart of debates about whether global crises and escalating geopolitical tensions have begun to reverse globalization: Has the growth of cross-border trade, capital, information and people flows gone into reverse? Are geopolitical tensions fracturing the world economy into rival blocs?