-->Der indischen Kaufkraft wird es jedenfalls ganz gut tun und auch dem Bildungsniveau Indiens wird es helfen. Trotz massiver Staatsdefizite und sehr schlechter Fuehrung waechst Indien unaufhoerklich weiter.
Fuer Aktieninvestoren sicherlich kein leichtes Unterfangen, aber Chancen gibt es auch dorrt immer wieder.
HSBC, the world's second biggest bank, is to cut 4,000 UK staff as it relocates work to India, Malaysia and China, in what is understood to be one of the largest transfers of British jobs overseas.
The decision by the bank, which employs 55,000 staff in the UK, follows similar moves by other companies including BT, Goldman Sachs, Abbey National and Prudential. Those groups have been driven to take such action by the incentive of cutting labour costs.
HSBC said that the jobs involved - mainly processing work and telephone inquiries - would move between 2004 and 2006.
About 1,500 jobs are set to go in 2004, a further 2,000 in 2005 and a further 500 in 2006. Operations in Brentwood in Essex, Sheffield, Birmingham and Cardiff will be worst hit.
Bill Dalton, chief executive of HSBC's UK operations, said the move was essential to the bank's continued success.
"As one of the world's largest financial services companies HSBC has a responsibility to all its stakeholders to remain efficient and competitive," he said.
But Rob O'Neill, an official at Unifi, the banking workers' union, said:"The world's local bank has shown that if the job can be done cheaper somewhere else, then they'll move it. We will fight tooth and nail to get the bank to reconsider its actions."
UK financial services companies' offshore operations have grown from 200 employees in 1996 to 3,000 in 2002, according to Unifi.
The union has previously indicated that by the end of 2003, 3,690 jobs will be offshore and that this number will rise to 5,140 by the end of 2004.
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