Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
British banking and insurance holding company NatWest Group announced that it will create 300 jobs at its office in Warsaw by the end of 2021. The company is to hire 200 data engineers and 100 data analysts. For candidates, both working in the office and remote format are available.
The NatWest Group, one of the leading UK financial institutions, includes NatWest (National Westminster) Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank. In 2020 the Royal Bank of Scotland Group was re-named NatWest Group. In Poland, the company has been operating for almost 15 years; currently, it employs 1,400 people at the Warsaw centre of excellence providing a wide range of services including finance and risk management for corporate and institutional customers, data & analytics, statistical modelling, project management, cyber security, supply & chain management, technology and product control with strong expertise in customer due diligence.
Eurofound (2021), NatWest Group, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 104892, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/104892.
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