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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
16 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Danske Bank, one of the biggest Scandinavian financial services providers, intends to create around 400 new jobs in their Global service centre and IT centre in Vilnius by the end of 2019. The company is rapidly expanding in Lithuania. In 2018, the company created around 500 new jobs and the number of employees in their service centres increased from 2,500 to 3,000. The company mostly hired operations specialists, senior operations specialists, as well as software developers, testers, business analysts and others. The company currently employs 3,095 employees in Lithuania.
Danske Bank operates in 16 different countries and serves more than 3.4 million personal, business and institutional customers.
Update 20/03/2019:On 22 February 2019 Danske Bank announced that it will create 600 new jobs instead of 400 jobs in their Global service centre and IT service centre in 2019.
Eurofound (2019), Danske Bank, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 96392, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96392.
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