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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Italian banking group Credito Emiliano (Credem) is to hire 120 employees, mainly in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Campania, Calabria and Sicily.
Credem is performing a significant growth in terms of number of clients and market shares, and is intended to strengthen its position by investing in technological innovation and in its sales network.
The bank has already hired about 600 workers over the last three years, 170 thereof in 2016.
The recruitment will target young people to be trained and enrolled both in the headquarters and in the private and small business customer services.
The hirings will occur by means of fixed-term contracts, to be possibly shifted into permanent positions.
Sources
3 November 2016: FIRSTonline
4 November 2016: Gazzetta di Reggio
4 November 2016: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Credito Emiliano, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 89086, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89086.
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