Category: AmCham News
AmCham Transatlantic Business Assembly: Pressure & Agility Immediately following AmCham’s Annual Meeting, members and partners turned to the Transatlantic Business Assembly where Jason Turflinger warmly welcomed guest speakers Richard H. Riley, US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, and Sissel Lønning Andresen, Pfizer Norway’s Country Manager. On the agenda were two of the most important issues impacting transatlantic […]
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Ketil Nordengen, leader of both 3M’s EMEA Sales and Norway operations, was duly appointed as Chair of AmCham’s renewed Board of Directors during last week’s virtual Annual General Meeting. Microsoft’s Kristine Beitland and KPMG’s Charlie Lea were also named as the Board’s First and Second Vice Chairs, respectively.
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On the one-year anniversary of the lockdown in Norway, financial leads from Schjødt, BAT, Citi, Connectum Capital Management, Crawford & Company, Escalon Services, IBM, KPMG, Microsoft, OSM Aviation Management, Raise Gruppen, Roche, SAS Institute, Sonitor, and Wavetrain Systems gathered virtually for the first Financial Forum of 2021.
MoreNorway will press ahead with North Sea wind power this year, awarding its first development licences as it spurs the transition of its oil and gas industry and despite its already plentiful renewables supply. The government has earmarked two areas in the North Sea for up to 4.5 gigawatts of floating and bottom-fixed wind turbine […]
Norway’s central bank has signaled that it plans to take the plunge by making the country the first developed nation to shift from pandemic-era policy and raise interest rates by the end of the year. The oil-rich country’s central bank, Norges Bank, said Thursday that a faster-than-expected pickup in global economic activity coupled with notable […]
On March 25, 2021, EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, made the following statement regarding the negotiations on transatlantic data privacy flows: “The U.S. Government and the European Commission have decided to intensify negotiations on an enhanced EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework to comply with the July 16, 2020 judgment of […]