German bank && Outsourcing in Minsk
After looking at the more traditional outsourcing venues in Asia, the German bank decided to build its state-of-the-art development centre in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, which is within a two-and-a-half hour flight from Frankfurt. So, just what was the lure? Minsk isn’t the most forward, wealthy or democratic of cities, but hey, it’s safer than London, cheaper than Frankfurt, less hectic than Rome and a darn sight cleaner than India. And that is where a rival Nordic bank had set up its offshore centre.
Source: “Outsourcing captures Europe’s imagination” (an Indian business publication). I wonder where the Indian journalist got this information, and which German bank was that…
September 10th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Are you there?
I was waiting for this kind of posts …