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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.2 - Activities of holding companies
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 June 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Finnish financial service group OP-Financial Group has announced that it will invest €2 billion in digitalisation over the next five years and will hire at least 100 digital developers as a result. At the moment around 600 experts are involved in OP's development projects and more employees are needed as OP plans to expand from the banking and insurance market to include welfare and health markets as well. The new digital developers will work with system design and developing areas such as the Internet of things and cloud computing architecture. Some developers will be hired as project managers. Recruitment processes are already underway.
Sources
22 June 2016: tivi.fi
Citation
Eurofound (2016), OP Financial Group, Business expansion in Finland, factsheet number 87974, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87974.
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