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Hey, HSBC and Citibank already have regional BPOs here, so why not Swiss banks with their immensely wealthy clientele?
This time, the tentative IPO date is the first quarter of 2006, by which time Shell would have already fixed its major reservation for an IPO which is to separate the company that will be publicly listed from its strategic refinery.
Aside from the company running out of reasons to delay the IPO, another factor may be Shells revaluation downward of worldwide oil reserves, resulting in lower share prices in major stock exchanges (read: theres pressure from all Shell units to generate more revenues).
Career-wise, Mr. Purisima who cannot work for the private sector for one year should take heart from Jose Isidro Camacho.
After resignation as Finance Secretary during the first two years of President Macapagal-Arroyo, Lito Camachos career didnt look like it was going anywhere either, particularly after he criticized governments widening budget deficit for which he was the major borrower.
Fact was, he was teased for being an endorser of a pharmaceutical company.
Now, Mr. Camacho is doing well enough, thank you very much, to pay for the tuition of three children in Harvard University. You see, Mr. Camacho is vice-chairman of the Asian operation (minus Japan) of First Boston Credit Suisse and the branch head of the Singapore operation (which, of course, is a major money-maker).
Mr. Camachos man in the Philippine is Simon Paterno, in whose office at the Development Bank of the Philippines he used to hang out in as Finance Secretary when he was in Makati.