 Barclays International
Bank
Barclays International Corporate
Services has built up a wealth of experience of
dealing with and supporting International Trading
Companies, and offers access to considerable
specialist expertise as well as some of the best financial centre locations for international
trading companies, from London to specialist
jurisdictions like the Isle of Man or Cyprus and
Dubai (UAE) .
 SGS
(Société Générale de Surveillance)
SGS
is the world's leading inspection, verification,
testing and certification company. SGS is
recognized as the global benchmark for quality and
integrity. With 39'000 employees, SGS operates a
network of about 1'000 offices and laboratories
around the world.
Originally founded in
1878 in Rouen as French grain shipment inspection
house, the Company was registered in Geneva as
Société Générale de Surveillance in 1919. Shares
of SGS were first listed on (SWX) Swiss Exchange
in 1985. Since 2001, SGS has only one class of
shares consisting of registered shares.
The core services offered by SGS can be
divided into three categories:
Inspection services:
SGS
inspects and verifies the quantity, weight and
quality of traded goods. Inspection typically
takes place at transshipment.
Testing
services: SGS tests product quality and
performance against various health, safety and
regulatory standards. SGS operates state of the
art laboratories on or close to customers'
premises.
Certification
services:
SGS certifies that systems or
services meet the requirements of standards set by
governments, standardization bodies (e.g.ISO 9000)
or by SGS customers. SGS also develops and
certifies its own standards.
 Chicago Board of
Trade
Providing a diverse mix of
financial and commodity futures and options, the
Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT ® ) has been driving
the standard in futures trading since 1848. More
than 3,600 CBOT members trade 50 different futures
and options products at the exchange through open
auction and/or electronically. The Exchange in
2004 posted annual trading volume of 599
million contracts, its third consecutive
record-breaking year.
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