The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Financial / Insurance/ Estate 64 - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding 64.1 - Monetary intermediation 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
168 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 November 2012
Employment effect (start)
30 November 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
Danish Saxo Bank announced the dismissal of 168 employees at the bank's Danish headquarters in Hellerup outside Copenhagen. According to a press release the cuts are due to a slowdown of trading in the financial markets.
As part of a global restructuring programme, Saxo Bank will dismiss 266 of its 1,517 employees worldwide.
Sources
17 November 2012: politiken.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Saxo Bank, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 74579, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/74579.