iGate (FRA:MS4) Allowance For Loans And Lease Losses

Igate Corp was founded in 1986. The Company is an outsourcing provider of integrated end-to-end offshore centric information technology (IT) and IT-enabled operations solutions and services. The Company delivers various IT services through international integrated onsite and offshore delivery locations mainly in India. The Company provides its services to customers through industry focused practices, including insurance and healthcare (IHC), manufacturing, retail and logistics (MRDL), banking and financial services (BFS"), communications and utilities (CEU), and media and entertainment (MELT) and through technology focused practices. It offers services to customers through industry focused practices, including insurance and healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and logistics, banking and financial services, communications, energy and utilities, product and engineering solutions, government solutions and media and entertainment. Its IT and IT-enabled services include application development, application management, verification and validation, enterprise application solutions, business intelligence and data warehousing, infrastructure management services, enterprise mobility, cloud services, embedded systems development, engineering design services, IT consulting, IT governance and customized learning solutions, business process outsourcing ("BPO") and customer interaction services. The Company has operations in India, Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Turkey, South Korea, China, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company delivers effective solutions to more than 360 Fortune 1000 clients. The Company's main competitors in the IT and IT enabled outsourcing industry include IT outsourcing firms, consulting firms, systems integration-firms and general management consulting firms such as Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Infosys Technologies Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Wipro Limited, Genpact Limited, WNS (Holdings) Limited, EXLService Holdings Inc., Syntel Inc., Mindtree Limited, and Hexaware Technologies Limited. The Company is subject to numerous, and sometimes conflicting, legal regimes on matters as diverse as anticorruption, import/export controls, content requirements, trade restrictions, tariffs, taxation, sanctions, immigration, internal and disclosure control obligations, securities regulation, anti-competition, data privacy and labor relations.