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Financial Services Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities 66.1 - Activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 August 2014
Employment effect (start)
22 August 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
State Street Corporation, a global financial consulting services provider, announced that it is to create 200 new jobs at its financial services center in Kraków by the end of 2014. The company is looking for financial staff, accountants, managers and engineers with foreign language skills, especially English. The company is to employ graduates as well as experienced workers.
State Street Corporation has been operating in Poland since 2007; it has three offices in Kraków. Currently the company employs 2,000 people in Poland. State Street Corporation has offices in 29 countries and employs over 29,000 people around the world.
The ERM reported other instances of restructuring announced by the company in 2012 and 2008.
Sources
22 August 2014: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2014), State Street Corporation, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77473, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77473.
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