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Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul held talks with senior executives from three leading organisations, Bank of America, Microsoft and PIMCO, on 22 September 2026 at 1:45 p.m. local time in New York City, on the 29th floor of the Bank of America Tower in New York, United States. Government spokesman Ekapop Pienpiset said the prime minister stressed the government's approach to creating an investment-friendly environment and noted that global financial institutions play an important role in connecting Thailand with international investors and sources of capital. In the talks with Bank of America, the chairman of global corporate business praised the Thai government's policies as being in line with future global development trends, including the promotion of AI, digital technology and the transition to clean energy, and said he would travel to Thailand to attend the IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings 2026, which Thailand will host in October. In the talks with Microsoft, the two sides exchanged approaches to expanding cooperation in digital, artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, workforce skills development and cybersecurity to support Thailand's goal of becoming a regional hub for the digital economy and AI, and the prime minister thanked Microsoft for its support of Thailand's bid to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD. In the talks with PIMCO, the two sides exchanged views on the global economic and financial situation, capital flow trends and the key factors global institutional investors use in making investment decisions. The prime minister said the information and views from global investors would benefit Thailand in tracking international economic and financial market trends and in developing investment policies and the investment environment so that the country can compete and meet the needs of investors over the long term.

Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, met and posed for photos with Ms. Lisa Monaco, President of Microsoft Global Affairs at Microsoft Corporation, at Bank of America ahead of a roadshow meeting with 25 investors. The atmosphere was cordial. Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975, is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, in the United States, and is listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT. In fiscal year 2026, which ends on June 30, 2026, Microsoft reported total revenue of 331.8 billion US dollars, up 18% from the previous year, and operating profit of 155.2 billion US dollars, while the company significantly increased investment in buildings and equipment to accelerate the expansion of cloud and AI infrastructure worldwide. In Thailand, Microsoft began building a strategic partnership with the Thai government with the signing of a memorandum of understanding in November 2023, and later, on March 31, 2026, the company announced plans to invest more than 1 billion US dollars during 2026 to 2028 to develop cloud and AI infrastructure as well as related operations in Thailand. Microsoft's main business groups consist of three segments: the Productivity and Business Processes segment, which provides Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn; the Intelligent Cloud segment, which provides Microsoft Azure, server products, Azure AI and enterprise services, and is the segment growing at 30%; and the More Personal Computing segment, which provides Windows, Surface devices, gaming and Xbox services, as well as search and advertising services.