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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64 - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 August 2015
Employment effect (start)
24 August 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Barclays Technology Centre Lithuania, providing services for Barclays global retail and commercial banking activities, intends to create 200 new jobs in Vilnius by the end of 2015. The company which has already employed around 170 new employees since the beginning of 2015, has recently announced a variety of vacancies for IT professionals in the Lithuanian branch of Barclays. Currently the centre employs 1,500 employees in Lithuania.
Barclays Technology Centre in Vilnius is one of the company’s four strategic centres. Other centres are settled in India, Singapore and the UK.
Sources
24 August 2015: Delfi Verslas
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Barclays Technology Centre Lithuania, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 84527, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84527.
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