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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
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 April 2022
Employment effect (start)
13 April 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
US bank Citigroup is to create 300 new jobs in Ireland in 2022. The bank has been operating in Ireland for over 55 years and is in the process of building its European banking headquarters in Dublin. The new roles will be in risk, audit, finance and treasury as well as technology positions in the areas of cloud computing, software engineering and blockchain.
The bank currently employs 2,500 people in Ireland (with 700 of these based in Dublin), across corporate and private banking, treasury, markets, securities services and technology.
Eurofound (2022), Citigroup, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107015, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107015.
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