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Should outsourcers be outsourced?

India Citigroup and General Electric pioneered the use of India's potential for providing cheap services to their global operations years before outsourcing became popular. But if their recent moves are any indication they have divergent views on the way they want to manage their businesses in the future.

Kala Rao, December 01, 2004

Cut down or buy up

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Deborah Kimbell, December 01, 2004

Foreign Exchange

Investors gorge on mezzanine debt

European mezzanine finance is growing fast in absolute terms and as a proportion of the financing of individual deals. With hedge funds and CDO structurers eager for the paper there's a fear among some traditional mezzanine investors that pricing is not taking proper account of risk and that innovative structures are an unhealthy development for the market.

Mark Brown, December 01, 2004

BANKING

White shoe seeks blue blood

Will Cazenove's blue-blood culture and exclusive corporate clientele be under threat in its joint venture with JPMorgan? Rivals would like to think so but the two parties are aware of how crucial these features are. What's more, there's nowhere much else for top corporate customers to go. The biggest danger is that the merged firm will cater for so many blue chips in such sectors as mining that conflicts of interest might emerge.

Peter Koh, December 01, 2004

CAPITAL MARKETS

Structured products on hedge funds grow

Banks are trying, with mixed success so far, to interest institutional investors in structured products based on funds of hedge funds and hedge fund indices. For institutions that have been slow to obtain approval for alternative investments, structured products offer a quick fix. But suspicion abounds.

Julie Dalla-Costa, December 01, 2004

Beginners' guide to ACFC

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December 01, 2004

Ansbacher opens new opportunities in Qatar

Private banking FirstRand has finally offloaded subsidiary Ansbacher Group to the approval of all involved. The sale to Qatar National Bank (QNB) of the group, which provides financial services to high-net-worth clients internationally, was completed in November, opening a door to the lucrative and expanding high-net-worth market in Qatar.

Helen Avery, December 01, 2004

Josh Rosenberg

Josh Rosenberg's hobbies, which include Ashtanga Yoga, skiing and cycling, are a good grounding for the often frenetic and fast-paced world of hedge funds.

Julie Dalla-Costa, December 01, 2004

Mossimo and IXYS make CFO appointments with the SEC in mind

Two US companies have appointed people with accounting experience to be their new CFOs, looking to use their expertise to ensure compliance with financial regulations. Mossimo, the US clothing company, has appointed former Moss Adams accountant Vicken Festekjian as its new CFO.

December 01, 2004

BANKING

Corporate Finance magazine December 2004

December 01, 2004

BANKING

Hiring spree heats up at Barclays Capital

Barclays Capital has increased its staff by 30% to 7,000 in the past 18 months - and there's more to come. The objectives - more client contact and a broader product range - seem to be attainable. What's not so clear is whether increased revenues will outweigh the costs of this headlong expansion and how it will transform the firm's culture.

Kathryn Tully, December 01, 2004

Patrice Blanc

When Patrice Blanc joined Fimat in 1989 the company was an upstart, even in France, where it had been formed just three years before at the same time as French futures and options exchange Matif (Marché à Terme International de France).

Peter Koh, December 01, 2004

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