The Washington Post: Global Finance Chiefs Cite Signs of Stability
Par Rachid Sefrioui, dimanche 14 juin 2009 à 08:50 :: General
G-8 Leaders Call for 'Exit Strategy' for Stimulus, Agree to Craft Common Standards (excerpts)
By Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Financial chiefs from the Group of Eight industrialized nations yesterday offered their most optimistic assessment yet of the global crisis, noting encouraging signs of economic stabilization and calling for an "exit strategy" from the policies that have been used to stimulate growth around the world.
Following two days of meetings in Lecce, Italy, the eight finance ministers, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and his counterparts from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia, also agreed to create "a set of common principles and standards governing the conduct of international business and finance."
The strategy for obtaining those goals, they said in a communiqué, would be known going forward as "the Lecce Framework," with the objective of identifying and filling in the regulatory gaps that helped cause the current crisis.
Financial chiefs expressed cautious optimism on the global economy, pointing to the recent rebound in stock markets and a bout of encouraging economic data. Signs of a bottoming out of the crisis are particularly strong in the United States and China. Officials said, however, that significant risks remain.
The World Bank last week projected the global economy would contract by 3 percent this year, significantly worse than earlier estimates. Many nations in Europe are mired in deeper recessions than the one in the United States and have moved more slowly to clean up their financial systems. Europe has yet to put many of its banks through the kind of "stress test" the United States conducted, and analysts are concerned about another wave of bank failures in Europe, which could hinder a global economic recovery.
Although the officials agreed on both the need to continue government spending sprees as warranted, as well as the need to ramp them down as economies improve, there was an important difference of emphasis. The United States and Britain, for instance, appeared to play up calls for "sustained" spending to ensure a recovery, while Germany and other countries highlighted the need to return to fiscal prudence as fast as possible.
"It is interesting that France and Germany, which face prospects of very weak recoveries, continue to be most vocal in cautioning against the risks of stimulus measures," said Eswar Prasad, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
What have we been up to at Finatech in the midst of the global recession? Well, we decided to reorganize ourselves so that we are even more ready for 2010 and the global upturn.
Many of our top managers find the new format of the group highly efficient and motivating. Their enthusiasm has clearly beamed all over town, because it has attracted a number of highly talented executives to join the group from a number of technology multinationals. We cannot wait for our organization’s effectiveness to be proven even further during the second half of 2009, and to take all of its meaning in 2010.
I am pleased to see one of the brightest, shrewdest, most determined politicians in American history join the Obama Administration as Secretary of State. Mme Clinton est une grande amie du Maroc. Elle a énormément de respect pour la démarche démocratique de S.M. le Roi Mohammed VI ainsi que pour ses initiatives de développement humain et économique. Sa contribution au sein de la nouvelle administration américaine ne peut être que positive envers le développement de notre pays que ce soit dans les domaines économique, d’éducation nationale et supérieure ainsi que la défense de notre intégrité territoriale.


La stratégie de Finatech est en effet de faire de l’offshoring mais avec deux petits différentiateurs : le premier est que nous ne faisons de l’offshoring que dans les métiers que nous maitrisons (réseaux, GED, saisie, open source, .net, télémarketing, web agency). L’ITO et le BPO sont des métiers très vastes ; le pire est de penser qu’on peut être un généraliste dans ce secteur. Le deuxième, le plus important, est que nous ne le faisons qu’à travers des filiales que nous contrôlons à l’étranger. Pour nous, il est important de contrôler la relation avec le « client ultime ».