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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
DNB, Norway's largest financial services group, will hire 100 new employees in IT over the next year. The company has closed local banks and gradually reduced its staff over the past years as digitalisation has reduced the need for physical banks, and nine out of ten customers now primarily use online banking services. IT and Operations group executive vice president Liv Fiksdahl states that IT-specialists are the bank employees of the future, just as much as economists. She explains that DNB currently spends a lot of its resources on IT, and is now positioning itself for further growth in these services with several upcoming projects. DNB is also planning to outsource the operation of its digital payment platform Vipps, and is currently in talks with Microsoft and Amazon.
Sources
22 December 2016: E24
Citation
Eurofound (2016), DNB, Business expansion in Norway, factsheet number 89690, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89690.
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