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Financial Services Company (financial + services_company)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting50%

Selected Abstracts

Tax-Aided Financial Services Companies and the Cost of Capital

FISCAL STUDIES, Issue 3 2000
Annick Hespel
Abstract Over the past two decades, the governments of several European countries have implemented special tax devices to attract the finance centres of multinational companies. This paper determines how the cost of capital for investments made by multinationals is affected by the tax regimes, bringing into play the Irish financial services company, the Belgian co-ordination centre, the Dutch finance company and the Luxemburg company coupled with a Swiss finance branch. It gives evidence that intermediation of a tax-aided services company in the financing scheme of a foreign subsidiary provides an important tax saving. However, the home and source countries' tax regimes influence the hierarchy of the less heavily taxed treasury and finance centres. The methodology relies on the marginal effective tax rates theory and consists of an extension of Alworth's (1988) model to include treasury centres. [source]

Financial services company finds itself awash in ADR matters

ALTERNATIVES TO THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION, Issue 2 2005
Article first published online: 19 JAN 200
Waddell & Reed Inc., an Overland Park, Kan., financial services company, has received a lot of attention for its involvement in high-profile conflict resolution proceedings. The ADR Brief discusses the firm's arbitrations, as well as a recent mediation which tried to settle several arbitration and litigation matters. [source]

Tax-Aided Financial Services Companies and the Cost of Capital

FISCAL STUDIES, Issue 3 2000
Annick Hespel
Abstract Over the past two decades, the governments of several European countries have implemented special tax devices to attract the finance centres of multinational companies. This paper determines how the cost of capital for investments made by multinationals is affected by the tax regimes, bringing into play the Irish financial services company, the Belgian co-ordination centre, the Dutch finance company and the Luxemburg company coupled with a Swiss finance branch. It gives evidence that intermediation of a tax-aided services company in the financing scheme of a foreign subsidiary provides an important tax saving. However, the home and source countries' tax regimes influence the hierarchy of the less heavily taxed treasury and finance centres. The methodology relies on the marginal effective tax rates theory and consists of an extension of Alworth's (1988) model to include treasury centres. [source]

Toward a hybrid model for usability resource allocation in industrial software product development

HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING & SERVICE INDUSTRIES, Issue 3 2007
Colleen M. Duffy
The organizational aspects of user-centered software development in a financial services company are presented. The financial services industry sector is one of the industrial sectors to embark on the development of computer software as a consumer product. The nature of business in the service sector predisposes it to encounter difficulties in developing software aimed at meeting customer demands. Lack of familiarity and experience with the product design and implementation processes, as well as reliance on usability for acceptance, are major obstacles encountered. Difficulties, insights, and lessons learned regarding organizational ergonomics issues faced by a user-centered design group are provided, and a hybrid resource distribution model is proposed to guide other service sector companies in their future software development efforts. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hum Factors Man 17: 245,262, 2007. [source]

Examining resistance, accommodation and the pursuit of aspiration in the Indian IT-BPO space: reflections on two case studies

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 2 2010
M. N. Ravishankar
ABSTRACT This article is based on case studies of two organisations: an India-based information technology (IT) services company and a financial services company located in the UK and India. Although they operate in different sectors and have some notable contrasts, both can be seen as typifying aspects of India's new economy. Our article explores the lived experience of working in this economy,a perspective that has been relatively neglected in the extant literature. Drawing on Homi Bhabha's notions of ambivalence and mimicry, and V. S. Naipaul's powerful illustrations of these concepts in his fiction and non-fiction works, we report on how respondents talked about their aspirations within India's emerging economy, and examine their mobilisation of particular discursive resources as forms of accommodation and resistance to the demands they face at work. [source]

Financial services company finds itself awash in ADR matters

ALTERNATIVES TO THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION, Issue 2 2005
Article first published online: 19 JAN 200
Waddell & Reed Inc., an Overland Park, Kan., financial services company, has received a lot of attention for its involvement in high-profile conflict resolution proceedings. The ADR Brief discusses the firm's arbitrations, as well as a recent mediation which tried to settle several arbitration and litigation matters. [source]