The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (“RMCD”) has released an updated Guide on Digital Services by Foreign Service Provider (“FSP”) as at 1 August 2020, via the MySST portal, to provide further guidance on Service Tax on Digital Services (“SToDS”) matters in Malaysia. EY has outlined the key highlights of the updated Guide.

While some countries are gaining control over the COVID-19 outbreak, others are seeing spikes again after a period of containment. What is a second wave of the COVID-19 and what does it mean for your organisation and workforce?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google would extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021. That's a telling decision considering that Google quite possibly has access to some of the richest data sets in the world. Among that data is research the company published last year. A team surveyed more than 5,000 Google employees and held focus groups to better understand the impact of distributed work.

Though digital disruption of the banking industry is inevitable – the COVID-19 crisis has turned into an unlikely catalyst to spur the adoption of digital banks in Malaysia. But what are digital banks? It’s easy to misconstrue digital banking as online banking, especially because all banks employ some form of digitalization – but digital banking is not equivalent to online or mobile banking.