This Thursday, AmCham organized an online discussion on the new approach to supervision of the banking sector, including the upcoming changes in legislation and how it may affect the bank-customer relationship and attraction of foreign investment with key stakeholders from the legislative and regulatory branches and the private sector: Santa Purgaile, Chairwoman of FCMC, Gatis Eglitis, Chairman of Saeima's Financial Sector Supervision Committee and Laima Letiņa, Advisor at Finance Latvia Association.

In the annual State of American Business speech on January 12 , U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas J. Donohue outlined the path for a widespread economic recovery through a bold agenda of infrastructure investments, workforce reskilling, immigration reforms, and reinvigorating America’s global competitiveness. Additionally, he warned that excessive regulations and anti-competitive taxes would undermine the recovery.

During the meeting members set priorities for 2021 and identified leaders and formed steering groups for 5 selected projects: Oncology data registry, Digital health strategy, Secondary use of health and social data, the Health Data Summit and Value based healthcare approach.

The healthcare work group members came together for a brainstorming session to discuss potential topics related to healthcare agenda for the next year. The work group identified 5 projects with the most significant impact and correlation with the AmCham Vision statement on Latvian healthcare.

On December 11 members had an opportunity to join an online meeting with the Deputy State Secretary and the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Economy who shared their insights on Latvia’s plan for economic recovery.