The offshore captive center was once the Holy Grail of offshore outsourcing. As companies got a taste of the cost savings possible by outsourcing IT and business process work to lower cost countries, they began to salivate over the thought of bypassing the offshore vendors

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The European Commission should make sure that outsourcing providers who process personal data are bound by consistent rules irrespective of whether they are based inside or outside the EU, data protection watchdogs have said.

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The increasingly common practice among manufacturing firms of outsourcing certain operations led to the announced closure of the undergarments giant Triumph International?s Philippine plant, a militant lawmaker said Tuesday.

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