Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Patrick Snowball, executive director of Aviva UK, flew down to Mumbai, India in February to accept an award from the Indian software industry. But India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) wasn’t lauding the insurance giant for the jobs it was moving to outsourcing firms on […]
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Every day, Alex Dai, one of my full time employees, spends about an hour an a half looking for stories for the next day’s news feeds. He needs to find about 14 to 15 potential story ideas, based on local newspapers, press releases, government announcements, and similar sources. Then he sends them to Chicago for
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Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. I’ll write more on this topic later, but right now I’d like to point everyone to a fantastic post by Michael Yon about how he started as a war correspondent. It’s
I’ve answered it a lot as well (one of these answers is posted here: http://maria.trombly.com/FAQ.htm#correspondent). But my perspective on this has changed over time as I gained more experience in the field, and as the industry has changed. Traditionally, there have been two main ways to become a foreign correspondent: Wait for the newspaper to
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Dan Kubiske, chair of the SPJ’s International Journalism Committee, suggested that I blog about my experiences running a bureau out here in Shanghai, so this is it. Some background — I came to China three years ago, to run the China bureau for Securities Industry News (a weekly New York City financial newspaper). The work
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SHANGHAI — In the first 10 months of 2006, Chinese regulators uncovered 776 banking crimes, including 205 cases involving more than 1 million yuan ($125,000 U.S.). Fraud and other irregularities at Chinese banks added up to $95.9 billion in 2005, an increase of 31% from 2004, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission. In one
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In a sign that the maturing of the Chinese financial markets is creating new opportunities for Western technology suppliers, SunGard Data Systems of Wayne, Pa. has acquired Shanghai-based Fudan Kingstar Computer Co. SunGard, which did not disclose the purchase price, said Kingstar’s management team would remain in place. The financial technology giant described Kingstar as
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The parent of the New York Stock Exchange and three other investors said last week that they will each buy 5 percent, $115 million equity stakes in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India, that country’s largest exchange and the third-largest in the world in terms of equity trades. The agreement came on the heels
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Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) is likely to have a greater probability of making future non-performing loans (NPLs) than China’s other big banks, experts say. To that end, it may be more of a risky investment for investors. Chinese authorities recently announced share reforms and capital injections to clean up the bank in 2007 as
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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 capital markets and a player on the global financial stage. But in terms of corporate structure, the firm didn’t change much until 2001, when its holding company, Nomura Holdings, was
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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 World Trade Organization dictated opening the borders to foreign competition. “Almost all insurance business is opening to foreign insurers,” says Xiaolin Li, a dean at Beijing-based Central University of Finance
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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. He took a road trip around the U.S., looking for Chinese engineers working in U.S. companies who were interested in returning to China or would soon be compelled to do
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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 a Cobol pilot project with Information Technology United Corp., a Beijing-based outsourcer with U.S. offices in Redwood City, Calif. “We’d seen their marketing and qualifications; we just wanted to do
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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 other depository institutions raise their level of customer validation technology, and the Securities and Exchange Commission looking closely at how the brokerage industry is handling the issue. The technological solutions
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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 cooperation with McKinsey & Co. and the Singapore-MIT Alliance, considered such factors as product innovation, systems innovation and operational excellence. “Seagate came up tops in all aspects and is indeed,
