And some banks with large multinational operations have been quietly buying their customers' policies from the insurance company through foreign subsidiaries, according to Stein.
Wal-Mart is no longer an Ozark company; it is a cosmopolitan, multinational operation.
What began as an experiment in his garage is a multinational operation these days, with three hi-tech processing plants in the UK and China.
And with much fanfare NATO approved a program to redress the imbalance and improve the alliance's ability to mount multinational operations, a program it calls the Defense Capabilities Initiative.
Global account management which treats a multinational customer's operations as one integrated account, with coherent terms for pricing, product specifications, and service has proliferated over the past decade.
The head of a Mexican multinational with operations there found recently that his local manager had been siphoning company money to the cartels.
After 40 years' work, Mr Smurfit is chief executive of a thoroughly modern multinational with operations in 27 countries.
For example, if a loan application is seeking financing in order to do a dealing with Multinational X, First Circle can move quickly if it has dealt with the application before or it has issued loans to other partners who have done business with Multinational X. "Over time, as we acquire more customers, the degrees of separation are collapsing over time," Lynch said.
A multinational company, with operations in many countries, may transfer assets to a country (usually a tax haven) for very little money.
As the chief executive of a multinational corporation with operations in three dozen countries, Mr. O'Neill brings to the Treasury Department a firsthand understanding of how currency fluctuations affect the economy.
The effort to find a broader military role for America's allies is a delicate attempt to increase the Europeans' personal stake in the war while avoiding the complications that come with a multinational military operation.
