News

• Jan 19

  Swedbank launches sustainability accelerator: Future Hub

  In cooperation with the startup ecosystem players in our region, Swedbank is launching sustainability co-creation accelerator "Future Hub" with a goal to provide opportunities for market-leading companies to work on their business sustainability challenges by facilitating cooperation with GreenTech startups working in areas such as food, agriculture, mobility, energy, smart cities, supply chain logistics, CO2 tracking and other areas of corporate sustainability. Applications open until February 16!

• Jan 18

  Online meeting with Inese Voika, Member of the Parliament

  Inese Voika, Member of the Parliament and Chair of Working Group for Transparent Lobbying Framework, addressed AmCham members on the recent activities for the development of advocacy regulation in Latvia. She explained that the Defense, Interior Affairs and Corruption Prevention Committee of the Saeima has set an objective to develop a lobbying regulation that would include a broad definition of lobbying and the requirement for registering lobbying efforts.

• Jan 14

  Toward a risk-based approach in the banking sector

  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.

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