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News Kevin Campbell, chief executive of outsourcing at Accenture said: "Cost reduction and labour arbitrage has been a huge driver in outsourcing but high performance companies realise that it is not about what you can subtract from your business but...
[12 May 2008]
whitepaper They are coming to the realization that outsourcing is less about labor arbitrage and more about accessing the myriad of global talent available to businesses today. A new brand of outsourcing is essential for organizations intent on leading in...
[22 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The paper describes the need for arbitrage in segmented markets and reports the results of simulating experiments with different market structures. This paper describes a system of autonomous software agents able to engage in bargaining in an...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In addition, costs keep escalating in offshore locations, diminishing some benefits of labor arbitrage. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) service providers specializing in Finance and Accounting (F&A) see a growing market opportunity but already...
[11 Mar 2008]
News It is not just about cost arbitrage, it is about brains arbitrage, where can I get the best talent for my money. Offshore outsourcer Cognizant hopes to add up to 20,000 staff to its books this year, including 100 at a new onshore UK facility.
[29 Feb 2008]
Comment He argued that the big Indian companies have been conservative for too long, milking the significant immediate term benefits of labour arbitrage. India's booming tech industry seems acutely aware of the problems it faces - conservatism, social...
[20 Feb 2008]
whitepaper A trader initiates an intricate sequence of moves in a complex arbitrage strategy What do these activities have in common? A customer uses an ATM to make a transfer of money A supplier pulls the latest specifications out of a manufacturer's bill of...
[18 Feb 2008]
Comment This was all about a determined corporate vision, global in its reach - certainly not about a simple offshore code sweatshop rooted in labour arbitrage. Labour arbitrage is clearly one driver - but with predictions of a shortfall of 20 to 40 per...
[18 Feb 2008]
Comment In contrast to equities, fixed-income markets provide no opportunities for arbitrage - the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities in different markets to profit from unequal prices - because the securities are seldom quoted on...
[30 Jan 2008]
News John Lowrey, head of European electronic client services and statistical arbitrage at Lehman Brothers, said: "MiFID will have unintended consequences. The European investment bank directive MiFID will have a significant impact on the financial...
[13 Jul 2007]
Comment As well as taking advantage of the cost arbitrage that India offers, some companies are looking to the country for their next big thing as well. Thursday 15 February - Bangalore That means looking at India not just for cheap labour but also putting...
[15 Mar 2007]
News Speaking to the Indian media after a meeting with West Bengal government ministers she said: "India definitely gives us a labour arbitrage when compared with developed countries. However, with increasing cost of employment across all sectors, we...
[24 Nov 2006]
News The labour arbitrage advantage India has over the UK will last for at least another 30 years, while India will also retain its low-cost wage advantage over the US for at least another 18 years, according to the report.
[26 May 2006]
Case Study The bank's equity and derivatives division, BNP Paribas Arbitrage, is deploying Platform Computing's Symphony package to make use of the processing power of PCs that sit idle at night. French bank BNP Paribas is saving money by connecting idle...
[31 Jan 2006]
whitepaper This was mainly fueled by technology product companies taking advantage of a rich technical pool of engineers with a definite cost arbitrage. A silent revolution has been going on in Product Design & Engineering Outsourcing.
[26 Jul 2005]
News This means more aggressively going after and winning application maintenance and development work, allowing us to take greater advantage of labour arbitrage and cross-sell additional services. Outsourcing and consulting firm Accenture is planning...
[11 Jul 2005]
whitepaper This paper implements a Multivariate Weighted Nonlinear Least Square estimator for a class of jump-diffusion interest rate processes (MWNLS-JD), which also admit closed-form solutions to bond prices under a no-arbitrage argument.
[29 Jun 2005]
News Bartels said: "US tech companies like IBM or Dell can play global arbitrage, by buying parts and components in Asia, then selling them in Europe where the euro has advantage. Measuring IT growth in local currencies, as opposed to the US dollar...
[13 May 2005]
whitepaper Chiu and Crametz examine two 'no-arbitrage' relationships that must hold in a liquid bandwidth market: temporal and geographical. There is a current trend towards turning bandwidth into a commodity, with standardized contracts traded on exchanges.
[07 Apr 2005]
News This is likely to nullify labour arbitrage benefits and thus decrease the value proposition for businesses to open an offshore call centre. Automated self-service call centre technologies are set to provide competition for low-cost offshore agents...
[22 Nov 2004]
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