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Election 2012 in United States Presidential lat November 6, 2012 the election is currently being held. This election 57th quadrennial president election in which presidential electors, who will officially elect the president and the vice president of the United States on Decemeber 17, 2012 will be chosen to win the election. In which case the United States House of Representatives will choose the President voting by states and the United States Senate will choose the Vice President.

For a second term during the election, incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden are running. The bigger challengers are the Republican  Party candidate former Massachussets Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate.

The four other candidates are mathematically elligible to win the election by a majority of the electoral college, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee and Jill Stein, the Green Part nominee have attained ballot access sufficient to quality for enough electoral votes to mathematically win the presidency. The Virgil Goode, the Constitution Party nominee and Rocky Anderson, the Justice Party nominee have the minimum number needed to win the election.

The 2012 presidential election will coincide with the United States Senate elections where one third of the Senators will face re-election and the United States House of Representatives elections to elect the members for the 113th congress.

Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were enclose in a tight race with three severe battleground states too existing to call as US voters gather between two starkly various visions for the country. Obama and Romney heap up victories in the states they were expected to win without difficulty. In the beginning, the counting of the vote in the state of Florida showed them running neck and neck.

Obama conduct in the severe battleground state of Ohio and Romney held an early lead in a third state, Virginia. Romney needs all three of those states to navigate a narrow path to the presidency, while Obama an afford to lose one or two of them and still win a second four year term.

There were 120 million people predict to render their judgment among the Democratic binding and Romney after a long, pricey and bitter presidential campaign that expand the difference among Americans wanting to continue Obama’s concept to establish the ailing economy and those who want to try a new concept.

Romney’s oath seem to limit to a victory, Obama won Michigan, the Republican’s state of birth however where he ran afoul of voters by battling an auto industry bailout exertion by Obama. Some polls had shown a tight race there. Obama also won in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/us-usa-campaign-idUSBRE89M11220121107

For Indian software firms, the increasing number of idle workers in the United States could attract lower profit, it will increase the concern that already caused by doubtful business environment wherein clients are restraining decisions throughout technology projects. Analysts said that at least 7 percent points has increased by the alleged bench composed of some engineers who are not working on any active projects in Wipro, Infosys and TCS.

From operating margins in the upcoming quarters, the analysts and industry executives noticed that the increasing bench could cut off up to 150 basis points. At the beginning of the year, the proportion of engineers or the on-site utilization rates at client locations appointed to billable projects have lessen to 90 percent from  97 percent. At some companies, up to 18 percent of on-site staff are just sitting idle, stated by a senior industry executive that works nearly with some huge IT companies.

The director of equity research at Mumbai-based brokerage IDFC Securities, Hitesh Shah said that all over the large IT companies, on-site bench size has grown larger. Companies hired more local employee with each agreement they achieved however, they are reserved even after the deal expand. It adds to the bench up until they pledge a new contract. Part of the work is transferred to less expensive offshore regions like in India as the outsourcing contract matures.

In expectation of economic recovery in the United States, along with the response in increasing rates of rejection of visa applications to shift workers from India, Indian IT firms are also hiring more there over the past 2 years. To set up a community-friendly in the United States, they also handle local hiring. The growing number of U.S. bench has already made a mark in profits during the April to June quarter, a 210 basis points reduced to the operating margins for Infosys that includes Bank of America and JPMorgan among their clients.

Based on Barclays Equity Research, during the period from 5 percent previously Infosys observed its on-site bench increasing with about 11 percent. One of the reasons why some are inactive staff is due to the skills which are not appropriate to the job. The chief executive of Ikya Human Capital Solutions, a professional staffing firm who helps the Indian IT industry, Ajit Isaac said that there is a decisive  mismatch within the market demand and the available skill sets.

Maintenance and application development traditionally consist of the lion’s share of Indian IT work, clients are continuously seeking services according to the evolving technology fields like in cloud computing, data analytics and enterprise mobility. In these technologies, employees have been trained especially in the United States. Almost 10 to 15 percent of the workforce of huge IT companies is located overseas in client areas.

In the U.S. Infosys has more than 13,000 employees, while over 10,000 employees for Wipro, HCL Technologies have 8,000 and 6,000 for TCS. This kind of failure in utilization levels and the struggle of an idle workforce in expensive areas could lead into a persistent concern. If a business does not resume in Europe and in the U.S. which both contribute 80 percent of revenues for huge Indian information technology firms.

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/idle-staff-in-us-europe-to-drag-profits-of-indian-software-companies-like-tcs-infosys-and-wipro/articleshow/16520712.cms

http://www.i4u.com/2012/09/wipro-limited/europe-staff-us-indian-and-software-infosys-idle-drag-wipro-profit

http://www.anirudhsethireport.com/idle-staff-in-us-europe-to-drag-profits-of-indian-software-companies-like-tcs-infosys-and-wipro/

http://www.linkedin.com/today/article?articleId=5655717705290891358&trk=tod2-det

Simplifying fee payment, appointment schedules in the new website and standardizing rules are the goal of the latest visa processing system revealed by the United States embassy in India. In India, United States visa applicants will be able to pay their application fees through electronic fund transfer from September 26 2012 said by Julia Stanley, United States head of consular affairs while declaring the new system in Delhi.

Finally, the applicants will be able to schedule their appointments through phone or online. Moreover the modern system will also let travel agents and firms to pay multiple costs receipts for some travel of the group. Now, visa applicants’ questions will be able to get an answer through online chat, email and telephone.

Manage by outsourcing partners of the United States embassy together with the consulates, but questions are being established beyond the likely delays that could result from controlling laws on the data transfer from the areas of off-site facilitation centers. Visa applicants will have to schedule two appointments with the new system. The first appointment is prior to their visa interviews at the off-site facilitation center to give their photo and fingerprints and the second one is the visa interview at the embassy or consulate.

The new system will be a two day procedure and could be late in issuance of visa, those people who have a trip to another destination for visa applications like those who apply over blanket L-1 approvals who have to go to Chennai should pay additional travel and hotel fees. Poorvi Chothani, Mumbai-based immigration lawyer said that the group of applicants who are excused from the interviews will acquire in the new process as their fingerprint procedure will not be late because of backlogs at the consular offices.

The British High Commission that announced digital photographs and biometric fingerprinting a for all visa applicants in India way back had encountered initial issues because of legislation that does not allow the collection of biometric data at the visa outsourcing partners’ offices. Hence, the biometric data from the offices of the visa outsourcing partner will be downloaded into storage devices and substantially transfer to the British consular offices, though it cannot be exactly uploaded into the system of the UK Border Agency.

Based on the UK authorities, it will direct to a minimum delay of two days in releasing visas to visitors coming from India. Stanley of the United States embassy said that they are aware of the Indian laws on data shifting and they are searching for solutions to that, and the two appointments on different days for several applicants is also being looked into. To lessen congestion at the American embassy and consulate and to increase effectiveness, the new process is largely seen as an effort.

Cyrus Mehta, New York based immigration lawyer said that the B-1/B-2 visa can still be denied promptly if the consular officer conclude that the applicants is an attempting immigrant, furthermore, it is hoped that the settlement of H-1B and L visa will enhance more.

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http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-09/news/33697726_1_visa-applicants-vfs-visa-interviews

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/09/09/Will_the_new_US_visa_system_lead_to_delays_and_higher_costs/

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A strategy to subsidize an opportunities in the United States healthcare sector that could recognize a latest trend of outsourcing with modern policies that yell for an extensive cure said by Genpact, the India’s biggest business process outsourcing firm. According to the senior vice-president at Genpact, Mohit Thukral who leads both healthcare verticals and financial services that contribute almost 40 percent of revenues for the firm said that the plan is being settled and will be validated in the month of October.

He pointed out that due to the previous United States Supreme Court ruling which supported President Barack Obama’s plan for imperative health insurance for all American citizens, the renewed strategy was developed. Thukral added that their growth plans in the healthcare industry are according to the market size, judicial requirements, population trends, their significant impact and expertise in the global market.

According to some analysts observing the sector, that sometimes called as the Obamacare or the PPACA or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is anticipated to create more than $20 billion outsourcing opportunities. The partner and director at the advisory of the Boston Consulting Group said that for most Indian-based outsourcing service providers’ financial group was the primary center of the call, service providers are considered it as the next opportunity as focus on the healthcare industry has evolved.

As Genpact formulate new and arising opportunities in the sector, the recent Genpact’s effort in the healthcare sector is mostly with healthcare insurance providers than healthcare providers like hospitals might change. As the outsourcing processes in the sector become mature, the involvement of outsourced work from healthcare industry is growing. Thukral said that they are now assigned statisticians and doctors who work in fields related to fraud analytics and claim analytics.

The payoff has increased as Genpact uphold the value chain and begun utilizing more skilled work. Four years ago over $26,400 to $34,100 in 2011 was the increase of the  revenue per worker. The healthcare reforms is a hot topic in the United States as the Republican disapproved the required health insurance for all American citizens but even Genpact begin creating plans over the expected opportunities.

Bain capital was founded by the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney purchased 30 percent equity stake in Genpact that costs about $1 million. BCG’s Subramanian said that not many opportunities are influenced by policy decisions. When healthcare reform continues, opportunities will generate. Providers and payers in the healthcare sector are seeking for more operational effectiveness.

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http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-07/news/33677140_1_healthcare-sector-healthcare-providers-genpact

http://www.silobreaker.com/genpact-gears-up-to-capitalise-opportunities-in-us-healthcare-market-5_2265958715616133299

http://globalizationtoday.com/genpact-gears-up-to-capitalise-opportunities-in-us-healthcare-market-economic-times/

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/09/07/Genpact_gears_up_to_capitalise_opportunities_in_US_healthcar/

In California, the online retailer Amazon.com has evaluated to become all things to their consumers, however, it is about to take on a role it has resisted tax collector for years. After years of painful back and forth within the California Legislature and the world’s biggest online mall over whether Internet retailers should have to charge sales tax, the change takes effect this weekend. In 2011, the two-sides attained a deal that involves a year grace period set to cease on Saturday.

Before the tax collection dish out, the cutoff has incited at least some consumers into fancy-buying mode, stocking up on essentials and making big ticket purchases. A customer who has had Amazon packages carried to his office in Los Angeles, Derek Daniels purchased a household supplies such as trash bags and collecting Christmas and birthday gifts for his 2-year old child.

The approaching deadline urged San Diego artist John Purlia to finally purchase the Samsung flat-screen television that had been in his Amazon shopping cart for months, aside from that he also purchased a rare decorated $17.99 kitchen cutting-board for his sister, four CDs and an external hard drive. Purlia said that the TV serves as a motivating factor and the other things came along for the ride, he added that he will be going back to Amazon to take advantage of that, looks like it was the final day of the bargain.

Daniels and Purlia has their obligation to the taxes, California residents are assumed to determine their obligation and issue it to the state, however, according to the Franchise Tax Board, only less than to 1 percent do that. Lawmakers have long criticized to the growing number of e-retailer that deprives the state with millions of dollars by declining to charge taxes at checkout. However it was protected by a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that restricts states from charging businesses without a physical presence in the place to pick up the sales taxes, Amazon said.

The e-commerce giant Amazon said that it does not have warehouses or other offices in the California, that is why it did not have any physical presence there. In other states, similar fights have occurred, with Amazon frequently cancelled contracts and shuttered distribution centers to be able to maintain selling tax-free stuff. All over the region, Amazon is making alliances to start producing warehouses and offers faster shipping in places where tax arguments had recently prevented from putting down sources.

Including Texas and New York, the company started to collect sales taxes on orders shipped into seven states and has allowed to begin setting levies in six more. The resolution in tax argument of Amazon in California, has granted the firm to begin creating a network of distribution offices. instead of warehouses from Nev., Phoenix and Reno, customers from regions’ most famous state will finally receive shipments from warehouses in Patterson which is near the San Francisco Bay Area and in San Bernardino near Los Angeles.

The unemployment rate in California was the third highest in the region and each new center is anticipated to give hundreds of jobs in California residents. The new centers will lessen delivery times and it may be possible to offer some customers the same-day shipping like in 10 U.S. cities including Seattle and Boston. And for hardcore online shoppers like San Francisco product manager Reid Butler it serves like a Holy Grail. Butler said that for him, and other family and friends, same-day delivery could be a big advantage for their retailers from the state.

California Retailers Association president Bill Dombrowski said that it will reduce one incentive for not buying local, retailers are waiting for that. Amazon will be able to compose for the loss in sales tax advantage by investing the state with distribution centers, it was predicted by an analyst Colin Sebastian with Baird Equity Research. He added that the Amazon will be more successful  if they will get closer to their customers.

REFERENCES:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/tax-on-amazon-purchases-in-california-begins-saturday-267202

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/09/13/tax-on-amazon-purchases-in-california-begins-saturday/

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/virginia-politics/2012/sep/14/tdbiz03-tax-on-amazon-purchases-in-calif-begins-sa-ar-2204300/

Arranging an effective argument that Obama had conserved the economy from disaster and directed in a recovery that would be initiated by a return to Republican stewardship as President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic choice for his second term. President Obama acknowledged the country’s continuing problems while securing his record and requesting more time to deliver his agenda, as Obama was describing himself as a mindful of his own failings.

He invests a long-term blueprint for revival in the time obsessed with short-term anticipation. President Obama stated in front of 20,000 party leaders and activists that he won’t deceive the path that he offers is easy, the people did not elect him to tell what the nation wants them to hear from him. He added that they elected him to tell some truth and the truth is that few more years to solve the challenges they are facing.

Their problems have a solution, their path that Obama offers might be hard, however, it will lead to a better place, Obama said as he asked the nation to select that path. Since his first nomination in Denver, President Obama’s presence in the Time Warner Cable Arena emphasized the raging journey he and the region have been on. Obama took the stage as a politician who had came to lock in the challenge of his life over the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, after four years fireworks venerated his storybook campaign to be the first black president of the nation.

The chant of reform was turned to a powerful defense of his recent course, the dynamic outsider’s message had been a policy-laden appeal for progression. In 2008 the change signs waved by the audience had been taken over by forward placards and the 32 times promise he used in his 2008 speech, came up just 7 times in his recent speech. Including the one million new manufacturing jobs and $4 trillion deficiency reductions, President Obama announced a series of promises.

However, he was generally making the issue that he had settled in place the foundation for a recovered region of voters just give it enough time to do that. If at times they feel like a State of the Union address, it was an intentional effort to tap Mr. Romney to become more particular on how to accomplish his promises. He said that the Republican nominee wants the voters vote however they don’t want the voters to know their plan and that is because all they have to present is the same solution they have had for the 30 years of their service.

President Obama’s dialogue emphasized back to back political conference in which the two parties expressed entirely different perception on how to stop the economic upset that has been affecting the region from 2008 and enclosed the two-month spring to Election Day. The president moves his case that the Republican nominee is so divided from the issues of the mid-class that he has no hint how to label them, a week after Mitt Romney’s petition to appeal to American failure with President Obama.

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http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-07/news/33676972_1_president-obama-barack-obama-election-day

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-08/us/33695966_1_obama-aides-barack-obama-american-jobs

http://theswash.com/liberty/obama-makes-case-for-2nd-term-harder-path-to-better-place

http://afghanistaninfo.blogspot.com/2012/09/obama-makes-case-for-2nd-term-harder.html

Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate had been criticized by some of the Democratic leaders that he is the pioneer in outsourcing jobs overseas and keeping his resources in several foreign banks. Ted Strickland, the previous Ohio Governor said that Mitt Romney lives in altered code, American employees are only figure on a spreadsheet for him and whether generated at their place or overseas, acquisitions are all even.

Strickland added that, today they observe that their region was produced by pioneers not by pioneers that search the offshore revenues at the stake of the American employees in their state but the pioneers who recognized hidden venture in seeking freedom. Romney pretentiously wrote an op-ed let Detroit go bankrupt, but devastation would have tumbled from Michigan to Ohio and all over the region.

Romney never realize of creating something when he could gain by breaking it down and if the Santa Claus is Mitt Romney, he probably outsource the elves and terminate the reindeer. As Romney was planning out some business, the companies that are pioneers in outsourcing was the one he preferred to invest in said by the International President of the Service Employees International Union, Mary Kay Henry.

He testified that he offered some firms with debt and when they were already bankrupt, he runs out with the money while employees lost their jobs, health care and their pensions. Mitt Romney stated that the United States need less teachers, firefighters and police officers, oppositely with Barack Obama in enhancing public education and public safety. Ryan and Romney would stop the Medicare guarantee and substitute it with voucher to gain bigger tax breaks to billionaires, instead of thinking the safety of their senior citizens.

They protected their wealth in Swiss bank accounts and send the jobs in China rather than investing in their own state, this was according to Martin O’Malley, Maryland Governor. He said that Swiss bank accounts never created a connection in the U.S and it never generated jobs for American people, they never put teachers in their classrooms or the cops in the beat.

Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader said that in the whole history of the United States it was the first time that someone is hiding himself from the people he wishes to serve. He added that rather than choosing the American institutions, he selected Cayman Island tax shelter and Swiss bank accounts, he pays less tax rate than the mid-class families.

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http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-05/news/33616123_1_mitt-romney-swiss-bank-accounts-pioneers

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/flbl.jsp

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/article3861492.ece?css=print

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/09/05/Democratic_leaders_accuse_Mitt_Romney_of_outsourcing_jobs_ov/

The global banking giant Standard Chartered was being accused by the New York state regarding with covering almost 60,000 hidden transactions with the Iranian government that includes an enormous $250 billion and revealing the United States system to drug kingpins, weapon dealers and terrorists.

All over the world, the UK-based bank has a significant presence and has also been caught that they have deficient money laundering controls in the outsourcing of jobs in India, the New York State Department of Financial Services exposed. According to the New York state department in a 27-page order, the Standard Chartered Bank or SCB comes up with the Government of Iran and protect it to the regulators more or less 60,000 hidden transactions including almost $250 billion and collecting SCB hundreds of millions of dollars in price for almost ten years.

It added that SCB’s plan ditch the United States financial system accessible to corrupt regimes, drug kingpins, weapon dealers, terrorists and dismantled law enforcement investigators with critical information used to follow all manner of criminal activity. In May 2010, SCB had guaranteed the Department that it would take instant corrective solutions on issues recently lifted by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control or OFAC.

The state department’s last administrative observation in the bank’s New York branch in 2011 that recognized ongoing and significant Banking Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering failures or BSA/AML. The bank was outsourcing its full OFAC agreement process for the New York branch in Chennai, India with no affirmation of any failure or communication within the New York and Chennai offices.

The OFAC is part of the United States Department of Treasury, it is the assigned government agency for setting up list of entities with whom the United States entities and citizens are secured from carrying out business. The other problems were the OFAC compliance system that does not have the ability to distinguish misspellings and divergence of names on the OFAC sanctioned record.

Before the release of funds for transactions with parties whose names the same with the OFAC-sanctioned list, there was no documented proof of that investigation. The order of New York state against the Standard Chartered comes close to the arm of the United States Senate’s Permanent Committee on investigation report that accused other UK-based global bank HSBC of revealing the United States financial System to money laundering and terrorist financing risks. HSBC’s staff in India had come over the scanner for deficiencies in their ethics as offshore reviewers of the global banking giant’s agreement to safety mechanism against terrorist financing and money laundering.

The Senate sub-committee probe exposed that HSBC’s Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Department that involved staff in India was highly insufficiently staffed and failures were discovered in the quality of the work done by HSBC’s offshore reviewers in India who were manipulated for clearing a huge backlog of doubted transaction alerts on the bank. The order against Standard Chartered follows a thorough investigation that included the review of over 30,000 pages of files involving internal SCB emails that distinguished yielding violations of law, said by the New York State Financial Services Department.

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http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-us-state-charges-stanchart-with-250-bn-secret-deals-with-iran-308902

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/US-regulator-accuses-Standard-Chartered-of-250bn-secret-deals-with-Iran/articleshow/15380753.cms

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-us-state-charges-stanchart-with-250-bn-secret-deals-with-iran-308902

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=771236

The Amazon.com Inc will spend over $1 billion to buy its Seattle corporate headquarters in what will be the United States biggest commercial real estate deal so far this year for a single location. In a trendy South Lake Union area, the world’s largest Internet retailer plans to buy a complex of 11 buildings in the trendy South Lake Union Area, comprising 1.8 million square feet of office space, for $1.16 billion from Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen’s investment firm. The Amazon is paying the highest ever price for an office building over 100,000 square feet in Seattle at around $644 per square foot based on the value of the deal. According to Real Capital Analytics, there is more than double the average rate of $308 per square foot for the city’s office space.

The analysts said that the Amazon has been leasing the properties and it may make more economic sense for it to buy the location in the current low-interest environment and gain more control over its HQ. In South Lake Union, Amazon expects to close the deal in the fourth quarter on the modern office building, a former semi-industrial wasteland now known as a center for tech firms and fashionable restaurants. RJ Hottovy an equity analyst at Morningstar said that it’s good to have control over your home office. Allen’s Vulcan Real Estate, part of his Vulcan Inc investment vehicle put the buildings up for sale.

According to Real Capital Analytics which tracks such sales said that the deal marks the United States’ biggest single-asset commercial real estate transaction of 2012. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with the school friend Bill Gates has been the central figure in the revitalization of the South Lake Union neighborhood. The Amazon already has plans to build a new offices nearby to house to its growing staff which total more than 50,000.

The e-commerce company earlier this year revealed plans to build more than 3.3 million square feet of office space over the next eight years. Vulcan stated that it will use some of the $1.16 billion from the Amazon to continue other real estate investments such as the re-development of remaining 30 acres of property owns in South Lake Union.Vulcan is working on several residential and commercial projects in the neighborhood like 375,000 square project that it is developing for Amazon.

REFERENCES:

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/amazon-buys-seattle-headquarters-for-116-billion-276788

Recently, the global banking giant Standard Chartered had been accused by New York because of over 60,000 unrevealed transactions with the Iranian Government that involves a tremendous US$250 billion and revealing the US financial system to drug kingpins, weapon dealers and terrorists. The UK-based bank has also been exposed to have deficient money laundering controls in its outsourcing of job to India.

The New York state department said that for almost 10 years, 60,000 hidden transactions of Standard Chartered Bank or SCB worked with Iranian Government and conceal from regulators, that includes at least US$250 billion and collecting SCB hundreds of millions of dollars in fees. SCB business left the U.S. financial system sensitive to weapon dealers, corrupt regimes, drug kingpins, terrorists and cheated law enforcement investigators of important data used to monitor all criminal actions.

In May 2010, SCB convinced the Department that it would take quick response on issues that currently lifted by the U.S. OFAC or the Office of Foreign Assets Controls. In 2011, the state department’s last regulatory testing of the banks’ New York branch analyzed persisting and familiar Banking Secrecy Act/Anti-Money laundering flaws. With no proof of any communication or oversight among the New York and Chennai department, the bank was outsourcing its whole OFAC compliance process for the New York office towards Chennai, India.

The OFAC which is a part of the U.S. Department of Treasury is the assigned government agency for arranging a list of entities with whom U.S. citizens and items are blocked from doing any business. The other flaws involving the OFAC compliance system that lacked the ability to determine variations and misspellings of names on the OFAC authorized records. Before the release of funds for transactions with parties whose names correspond the OFAC-sanctioned list, there were no documented records of investigations.

On July 17, the order against Standard Chartered by New York state was nearly at the heel of the United States Senate’s Permanent Committee on Investigations report, that accusing another UK-based global bank HSBC in revealing the U.S. financial system to money laundering and terrorists financing liabilities. HSBS’s employee in India had come within the scanner for deficiencies in their objective as offshore reviewers of the global banking giant’s agreement to safety mechanism across terrorist financing and money laundering.

HSBC’s AML or Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Department with employees in India  as the Senate sub-committee investigations found that it has deficiencies and highly inadequately staffed with the quality of the work done by the HSBC’s offshore reviewers in India that has been utilized for clearing a major backlog of unwanted transaction alerts at the firm. Its order against Standard Chartered uses a broad investigation included the review of over 30,000 pages of documents with internal SCB e-mails that determine egregious and willful violations of law stated by the New York State Financial Services Department.

REFERENCES:

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-us-state-charges-stanchart-with-250-bn-secret-deals-with-iran-308902

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9456638/Standard-Chartered-exposed-US-to-terrorists-with-250bn-in-Iran-transactions.html

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-us-state-charges-stanchart-with-250-bn-secret-deals-with-iran-308902