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Anti-Outsourcing Bill: Politics Vs. Economics
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| Date: |
29-July-2010
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| Description: |
New York Senator Charles Schumer has announced that he is supporting an anti-outsourcing bill that would tax businesses 25 cents for each call that is made from the U.S. but transferred to an overseas data center. |
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| Title: |
Credit Ratings – Need for Centralized Supervision
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| Author Name: |
The FSO Editorial Team |
| Date: |
25-June-2010
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| Description: |
Credit ratings are considered an economic indicator to gauge a country’s credit position which appends influence through ratings. Countries like the UK and US consistently rank better than developing countries like the BRIC nations. |
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| Title: |
Wall Street’s Kabuki Response to Reform
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| Author Name: |
Prosasty Chaudhuri |
| Date: |
18-June-2010
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| Description: |
Wall Street is no different than the Kabuki- a Japanese dance drama. The SEC is moving towards consolidating market surveillance, after it took regulators weeks of poring through trading data to piece together the root causes of the so-called "flash crash" of May 6. |
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| Title: |
Risk Management: Flaws in the System
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| Author Name: |
The FSO Editorial Team |
| Date: |
13-May-2010
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| Description: |
With any large scale failure in a financial system, every aspect of Risk Management in financial institutions attracts sharp focus and is questioned from a rudimentary level. Rightly so, since with the integration of financial systems across the globe, a system-wide malfunction has a higher magnitude of risk impact, as compared to such a situation a couple of decades ago. |
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| Title: |
Financial Products and Business Models: Call for Change
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| Author Name: |
The FSO Editorial Team |
| Date: |
13-May-2010
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| Description: |
The profits enjoyed by financial firms prior to the crisis are now unlikely to continue since the cumulative demand for products has fallen and the margins have reduced significantly. Financial products are heavily impacted by the higher price of risk and the ever increasing regulatory compliance costs. Though there are firms experiencing marked profits, there are some who still require extensive government support for maintaining themselves. |
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| Title: |
Game Xchanging
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| Author Name: |
Lisa Valentine |
| Date: |
11-September-2009
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| Description: |
We’re experiencing a bit of deja vu, says David Andrews, CEO of Xchanging. He likens what is occurring today in the business process outsourcing industry to the early 1990s when CIOs first began to question whether it made economic and strategic sense to outsource business processes to a third-party. |
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| Title: |
Applying Financial Management Rigor to Global Sourcing Decisions
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| Author Name: |
Philippe Dintrans & Saptarshi Mukherjee |
| Date: |
07-May-2009
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| Description: |
Locations such as China, the Philippines, Eastern Europe and Latin America can provide services ranging from traditional applications development and maintenance to infrastructure management and business process outsourcing -- or some combination thereof. |
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| Title: |
Uncovering Hidden Costs in Middle & Back Office Operations
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| Author Name: |
Stephen L. Pietrzak |
| Date: |
02-May-2009
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| Description: |
The asset management industry is rife with unintegrated operations solutions supporting one or more business channels, making it difficult to determine the actual costs of middle and back office operations. |
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| Title: |
Nicaragua: Emerging Economy, Ideal BPO Destination
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| Author Name: |
Glenn Dispenziere |
| Date: |
29-April-2009
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| Description: |
Nicaragua’s exposure to U.S. culture and language and a highly-skilled labor pool make it an offshore location that financial services firms should consider. |
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| Title: |
Should Banks be Nationalized?
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| Author Name: |
Lisa Valentine |
| Date: |
10-April-2009
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| Description: |
Can the current lending logjam be released by nationalizing U.S. banks, at least temporarily? Does the end justify the means? |
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| Title: |
Russia & Ukraine as Financial Technology Outsourcing Destinations
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| Author Name: |
Alexei Miller & Mikhail Zavileysky |
| Date: |
08-April-2009
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| Description: |
Despite a series of high-profile and well-publicized success stories, Eastern Europe remains a relatively unknown field on the outsourcing landscape, at least compared with India, China and the Philippines. |
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| Title: |
Risks When Going Off-Shore
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| Author Name: |
Dalip Raheja and Dr. Lowell Yar Yarusso |
| Date: |
07-April-2009
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| Description: |
The Barings Bank collapse illustrates why financial services organizations must actively manage risks, ensure financial integrity and stability over time, and comply with the OCC’s third-party risk guidelines. |
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| Title: |
The Decision-Making and Risk Management Process
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| Author Name: |
James DeLoach |
| Date: |
07-April-2009
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| Description: |
When determining what should be outsourced and/or offshored, companies often consider their core competencies, the quality of the product or service to be outsourced, a comparative analysis of internal costs and external costs, and the need for specialized capabilities. |
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| Title: |
A Data-Driven EKG for Business Simplifies Outsourcing Decisions
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| Author Name: |
F. Stephen Olson |
| Date: |
06-April-2009
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| Description: |
Just as a cardiologist can watch an EKG track real-time heart performance, so should a financial services company outsourcing a business process be able to monitor the ongoing business performance of a vendor. |
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| Title: |
Egypt Emerges as Outsourcing Destination
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| Author Name: |
Dr. Hazem Y. Abdelazim |
| Date: |
6-March-2009
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| Description: |
Egypt, with its growing ICT infrastructure, cost-effective services, large talent pool and open business environment, is rapidly positioning itself as a gateway into new markets. |
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