Foreign Broker Ban
From its founding on Dec. 25, 1925 as a spin-off of Osaka Nomura Bank Co., Nomura Securities grew into one of the giants of Japanese…
Chinese Carriers Expect Onslaught
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Chinese insurance companies were bracing for an onslaught by global competitors last month when a commitment to the…
Creative Recruiting
Four years ago, CEO John Cestar took a novel approach to increasing the skill levels at Freeborders, a small outsourcing provider that operates in China.…
Outsourcing in China
About two years ago, Kevin Miller needed a little help supporting legacy applications and developing new software for large automotive manufacturers. He decided to conduct…
Back-End Authentication Moves to Forefront
User authentication has been getting a lot of attention lately, what with lingering threats of identity theft, a U.S. regulatory initiative to have banks and…
Seagate Award
U.S.-based hard disk drive maker Seagate Technology International today won the prestigious Singapore Manufacturing Excellence Award. The award, presented by Singapore’s Economic Development Board in…
Robots to China
Though its purchasing power may be on the wane, the automotive industry is still the primary buyer of robotics products. With China’s automotive sector showing…
Brokers on Hold
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has said that it will issue no new licenses to brokerages set up as joint ventures with foreign firms…
Brokers vs. Exchanges
The U.S. pattern of stock-exchange consolidation, which has recently spawned a flurry of new investments by market participants in alternative or smaller trading venues, is…
‘Homesourcing’ A Domestic Alternative
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. There are three main reasons why it’s cheaper to outsource work to WillowCSN Inc. than to do it…
India Tightens Security
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Late spring 2005, the world learned that a crime ring that included call center employees of an Indian…
Bridging the Chinese Skills Gap
Originally published in Computerworld. Hankscraft Inc. has been making industrial motors and mechanized pumps for more than 50 years in Reedsburg, Wis. The company came…
Language Barriers
Originally published in Computerworld. Among the various sourcing peculiarities and problems specific to China is regionalism, says Pieter Tsiknas, director of SearchBank’s Beijing office. Read…
Weak legislation hindering China’s securitization market
The number of Chinese securitization projects has almost doubled this spring. The sudden burst of activity brought the total number of securities industry securitization projects…
Blogging for Alpha
The more crowded and competitive the hedge fund industry gets, the more difficult it is for fund managers to set themselves apart from competitors. The…
Saving face in China
Originally published in Computerworld. In the West, companies want to put on a good face for customers, even if it means having to admit mistakes.…
Automation in China
While some companies are outsourcing to China to cash in on labor savings, others are there for the long haul, and they have made automation…
China’s cabinet industry maturing in 2006
This article originally appeared in FDM. Larger firms offer higher quality as domestic demand grows and consolidation is likely. Cabinet products from Jianpan Cabinet Co.…
Supply Chain Challenges
About two dozen supply chain executives from around the world gathered here earlier this month to discuss the business-technology challenges of managing their dispersed and…
Back to the Future
This article originally appeared in CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), an IDG magazine (which has since ceased publication). Jim Murphy learned about marketing to Chinese customers…
RFID in China
While Chinese manufacturers and the Chinese government must come to terms on standards, this burgeoning industry is poised for growth Haier Group, China’s leading home-appliance…
Standard Chartered claims first “true” loan securitization
The China Construction Bank privatization project, recently approved by the Chinese government, may become the first true loan securitization in China. As the sole advisor,…
CSFB helps move securitization forward in China
In the spring of 2004, China’s largest commercial bank struck a deal with Credit Suisse First Boston, CITIC Securities and China Credit Trust to securitize…
CITIC named Special Purpose Trust in ground-breaking project
This fall, one of the two big bank securitization projects in progress is the MBS project of China Construction Bank. The Special Purpose Trust that…
China opens up to new deal structures, new participants
China’s securitization market finally reached a new maturity level this fall, with new participants and new deal structures. The watershed moment was September’s listing of…
Brokerage pioneer in China’s securitization space
While other brokerage firms have tried – but so far failed – to get securitization projects off the ground, the Beijing-based China International Capital Corp.…
Foreign Companies Driving China Supply Chain Infrastructure
China’s transportation network, distribution systems, regulations and even locally trade-restriction laws slow the development of industry in the heartland. But Western countries are making things…
China’s Weak Logistics
Electrolux China, a group that manufactures kitchen, cleaning and outdoor appliances for consumers and business users, set up its supply chain system in 2002, after…
Supply Chain Infrastructure
The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly despite an underdeveloped supply chain network. Most Chinese manufacturing companies do not yet rely on supply chain systems,…
Biometrics Comes To the Heartland
A couple years ago, good security meant a good firewall at the periphery of a bank’s network. Today, given the range of internal and external…