This rule also permits a group to centralize its foreign finance function in a foreign subsidiary, which can receive interest on loans made to related foreign affiliates without U.S. taxation.

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Employees work in "neighborhoods" defined by job function, such as marketing or finance, so workers sit near those they interact with regularly in the course of a workday.

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Increasingly, stock markets function as speculative adjuncts to the real work of business finance.

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For example, your human resource function will likely be managed by your general managers or finance department.

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Another potential rub in welcoming world finance is the rule-of-law problem: Capital markets function on trust, and welshing on derivatives contracts, for example, is not conducive to bringing big money to the mainland.

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Another response: Finance companies are offering, or will soon offer, plans in New York that function like leases but transfer titles to car buyers.

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