The FINANCIAL -- “The Netherlands might still be one of the bigger investor countries in Georgia in 2013. It would be dependent on the perception of Georgia being a politically and economically stable country. I have noticed that many companies are at the moment waiting to see how the domestic situation in Georgia will develop this year,” Pieter Jan Langenberg, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Georgia, told The FINANCIAL.

The FINANCIAL -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness released the “Fix, Add, Replace Agenda” outlining the Center’s priorities for meaningful financial regulatory reform.

The FINANCIAL -- U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue issued the following statement on the Senate Gang of Eight’s efforts to achieve comprehensive immigration reform:

The FINANCIAL -- On April 3, Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security Jonathan Shrier and Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Food Security at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Paul Weisenfeld hosted Guatemalan Minister of Health Jorge Villavicencio, other Government of Guatemala officials, private sector representatives and a panel of nutrition experts at the Department of State for a joint discussion on Guatemala’s “Zero Hunger Pact” (“Pacto Cero Hambre”) to reduce chronic malnutrition.

The FINANCIAL -- The Obama for America campaign selected Microsoft Lync as the communications platform for hundreds of campaign staff in its Chicago headquarters and in some states for the 2012 elections.