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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 December 2014
Employment effect (start)
11 December 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Global financial services provider, Fidelity Investments, is to create 200 new jobs in Dublin.
The jobs are in technology and business operations roles.
Fidelity Investments already employs around 700 people in Ireland. In 2012, the company announced its workforce was to be expanded by 200, largely in technology positions.
The American company was targeted by the IDA in the 1990s to come to Ireland.
Sources
11 December 2014: RTE
11 December 2014: Irish times
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Fidelity Investments, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 77979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77979.
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