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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
230 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 October 2016
Employment effect (start)
13 October 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Financière des Paiements Electroniques, the payment establishment that has created the "Compte Nickel" (a bank account available to the 1,900 licenced tobacconists in France) , will set up 30 employees (IT developers, conformity analysts, clientele consultants) in Nantes in November. There, the company will recruit about 200 employees by 2019 for its IT and customers services.
The company currently employs 90 employees in its headquarter of Charenton, near Paris. It has about 400,000 customers.
Sources
11 October 2016: Ouest Fance
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Financière des Paiements Électroniques, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 88959, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88959.
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