{"id":18100,"date":"2021-10-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/13\/arbs-launches-cloud-based-virtual-agms-solutions-to-public-listed-companies-create-international-presence\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T07:00:00","slug":"arbs-launches-cloud-based-virtual-agms-solutions-to-public-listed-companies-create-international-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/13\/arbs-launches-cloud-based-virtual-agms-solutions-to-public-listed-companies-create-international-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"ARB\u2019s Launches Cloud-Based Virtual AGMs\u2019 Solutions To Public Listed Companies &#038; Create International Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>ARB taps on the big shift towards&#13;<br \/>\ndigital as well as SC&#8217;s guidelines to encourage listed issuers to continue&#13;<br \/>\nleveraging on technology beyond the MCO period, with the launching of its&#13;<br \/>\nVirtual AGMs&#8217; Solutions, ARB WeMeet.<\/li>\n<li>ARB WeMeet will be available for&#13;<br \/>\ncorporate clients at a competitive rate while offering solutions that drive&#13;<br \/>\nproactive engagements with shareholders<\/li>\n<li>The Group is targeting to capture&#13;<br \/>\n30% of the public listed companies in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand&#13;<br \/>\nand Australia, target to generate a lucrative yearly recurring income to the&#13;<br \/>\nGroup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 13 October 2021 &#8211; <b>Main Market-listed <\/b>information technology (&#8220;IT&#8221;) software and platform provider<b> ARB Berhad (KLSE:7181)<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n(&#8220;ARB&#8221; or &#8220;Group&#8221;) launches its self-developed&#13;<br \/>\nvirtual shareholders&#8217; meeting (&#8220;VSM&#8221;) \u2013 <b>ARB WeMeet<\/b> to provide companies&#13;<br \/>\nand shareholders with a stress-free, intuitive and enriched experience.<\/p>\n<p><b>ARB Berhad Executive Director Dato Sri&#8217; Larry Liew Kok Leong (<\/b><b>\u62ff\u7763\u65af\u91cc\u5218\u56fd\u826f<\/b><b>)<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\nsaid: &#8220;We&#8217;re excited with the launching of WeMeet, our state-of-the-art Virtual&#13;<br \/>\nShareholders&#8217; Meeting, that will serve the needs of shareholders and companies&#13;<br \/>\nin the &#8220;New Normal&#8221;. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been working&#13;<br \/>\ntirelessly to develop a virtual meeting solution, leveraging on our expertise&#13;<br \/>\nin the digital space and our understanding of the importance of corporate&#13;<br \/>\ngovernance and engagement with shareholders. We are thrilled that it&#8217;s finally&#13;<br \/>\nready to serve the market, and we have ensured that our solutions are at a&#13;<br \/>\ncompetitive rate, making it easier for our corporate clients to shift towards&#13;<br \/>\nvirtual meetings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ARB WeMeet are critical tools that will help to revolutionize how&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies conduct their annual meetings and engage with shareholders. There are&#13;<br \/>\na lot of advantages to conducting a virtual meeting over a physical meeting as&#13;<br \/>\nit enables shareholders to participate in the meeting remotely easily. In the&#13;<br \/>\nwake of the COVID-19 pandemic, most corporates and shareholders have realized&#13;<br \/>\nthe importance of the VSMs tool. According to Computershare data, 40% of the&#13;<br \/>\nAnnual General Meetings (AGMs) globally were conducted virtually during the&#13;<br \/>\nfirst seven months of 2021 as compared to just 27% in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>ARB WeMeet&#8217;s offering includes state-of-the-art video and audio&#13;<br \/>\nexperience, role-based meeting views, comprehensive meeting management tools&#13;<br \/>\nand real-time Q&amp;A functionality. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the criticisms on virtual shareholders meeting is the lack of&#13;<br \/>\nengagement with shareholders, and the system might be open to abuse. With&#13;<br \/>\nWeMeet, we are sure that the platform allows for a highly engaging and modern&#13;<br \/>\nvirtual experience, starting with a seamless meeting authentication, a&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Zoom-like&#8221; meeting experience and real-time Q&amp;A functionality,&#8221; Dato&#8217; Sri&#13;<br \/>\nLarry Liew said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the platform also provides an integrated&#13;<br \/>\nconsole to manage all aspects of the VSM experience, including seamless&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement of high-quality video and audio, streamed from multiple presenters,&#13;<br \/>\nscreen sharing, meeting materials management and voting. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WeMeet ensures that the voting process is transparent and&#13;<br \/>\nthat the meeting is open for engagement with shareholders.&#8221; Dato&#8217; Sri Larry&#13;<br \/>\nLiew said, adding that shareholders democracy, particularly retail investors&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\naccess to boards will not be eroded with WeMeet solutions. <\/p>\n<p>Given that all the public listed companies in Malaysia, Singapore,&#13;<br \/>\nIndonesia, Thailand, Australia would need to organize an annual&#13;<br \/>\ngeneral meeting on a yearly basis, excluding the extraordinary general meeting,&#13;<br \/>\nthis would provide a huge potential for ARB. Based on the Group&#8217;s internal&#13;<br \/>\ntarget to capture 30% of these market, WeMeet is expected to generate a&#13;<br \/>\nlucrative yearly recurring income for the Group. <\/p>\n<p>According to Dato&#8217; Sri Larry Liew, the rollout of WeMeet in&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysia is the first phase and while the VSM solution is competitive, he is&#13;<br \/>\nconfident that the Group&#8217;s competitive pricing and viable solutions that&#13;<br \/>\naddress some of the concerns over the virtual meeting, put ARB in a good&#13;<br \/>\nposition to capture the market. Most of the Annual Meeting of shareholders will&#13;<br \/>\nnow be conducted exclusively online by remote communication. This decision was&#13;<br \/>\nmade in light of the Covid-19, public health concerns and required limits on&#13;<br \/>\npublic gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re also looking beyond Malaysia by bringing in global&#13;<br \/>\naudience. It is our intention to help these corporates to shift towards digital&#13;<br \/>\nas it has always been our priorities. Given the potential of WeMeet and the&#13;<br \/>\nsustainable business model, we believe that this will be a launching pad for us&#13;<br \/>\nto expand our offerings. We welcome partnership collaboration in Asia-Pacific&#13;<br \/>\nregion to grow our market,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-13\/98911\/arbs-launches-cloud-based-virtual-agms-solutions-to-public-listed-companies-create-international-presence\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARB taps on the big shift towards&#13; digital as well as SC&#8217;s guidelines to encourage listed issuers to continue&#13; leveraging on technology beyond the MCO period, with the launching of its&#13; Virtual AGMs&#8217; Solutions, ARB WeMeet. 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