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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
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
22 November 2017
Foreseen end date
21 November 2019
Description
Norwegian financial technology company Liber Finance Group has announced that it will create between 250 and 300 new jobs at its unit in Warsaw within the next two years. The company is looking for programmers, accountants, marketing, sales and communication specialists. The unit in Warsaw is expected to be the main fintech unit of the company in the CEE region. Currently, Liber employs 40 people in the city.
Liber Finance Group was founded in 2014 in Norway. The company has offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Warsaw and Singapore. It offers a range of financial technology services within consumer finance, with a focus on personal loan and credit card brokering.
Sources
22 November 2017: Polska Agencja Handlu i inwestycji
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Liber Finance Group, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 92723, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92723.
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