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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 April 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Swedbank, one of the major Swedish banks, is to create 100 new jobs at its non-financial services centre in Vilnius in 2018. The company plans to employ specialists in the fields of finance and IT. The centre provides services to the entire Swedbank group which owns more than 500 branches with around 14,000 employees in Sweden and the Baltic states. Previously Swedbank announced its intention to create 400 jobs by the end of 2017 (see Swedbank 2016 LT).
In total Swedbank group employs more than 14,000 employees in Sweden and the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia).
Sources
3 April 2017: Lietuvos Rytas
3 April 2017: Delfi Verslas
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Swedbank, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 90677, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90677.
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