Big Surge Expected In Offshore Outsourcing By Banks

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Offshoring tech work offers big savings as programmers in India, for example, are paid anywhere from 40% to 80% less than their U.S. counterparts.

Deloitte says banks can save 40% on most IT projects by moving them to an offshore service provider. The study also claims that media reports of rampant wage inflation eating into the cost savings offered by offshore outsourcing are overblown. Deloitte says 55% of the banking IT executives it interviewed for the study expect their offshoring costs to rise by less than 10% this year, while 36% expect the costs to remain flat or decline.

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