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El Grupo SEB Bank y el Grupo Swedbank de Suecia trasladan su tecnología de la información y las operaciones internas bancarias a Lituania. Hace unas semanas un importante grupo y líder  financiero escandinavo Danske Bank también tomó una decisión clave para invertir en la creación de un centro de servicios en Lituania. El Primer Ministro de Lituania Andrius Kubilius da la bienvenida a estos movimientos por los inversores escandinavos y espera que otras grandes empresas internacionales sigan el ejemplo.

Fuente: Invest Lithuania

Lithuanian Prime Minister: Lithuania becoming a regional service centre for international banks 

October 11, 2012, Government of the Republic of Lithuania

Sweden’s SEB Bank Group and Swedbank Group are moving their information technology and internal banking operations to Lithuania. A few weeks ago, Danske Bank, a leading Scandinavian financial group, also made a key decision to invest in the establishment of a service centre in Lithuania. Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius welcomes these moves by the Scandinavian investors and hopes that other large international companies will follow their example.

“The recent decisions of the three largest Scandinavian financial groups to invest and create highly-skilled jobs in Lithuania provide excellent proof that our country is becoming a regional centre for high value-added services provided to the entire world. We will work to ensure that similar investments are made in other major Lithuanian cities with highly-skilled professionals,” the Prime Minister said.

The establishment in 2009 of the Barclays Bank Technology Centre in Lithuania set a precedent for other large international companies, promoting the development of the services cluster in Vilnius. Lithuania is now home to over a dozen similar centres, such as the SEB Bank Operations Centre or Western Union’s European Operations Centre. These service centres now employ 6,000 highly skilled professionals with a good command of foreign languages, as well as IT and financial skills.

The growth of financial service centres has created over 2,000 well-paid jobs for young professionals in Vilnius. In the Prime Minister’s opinion, Lithuanian universities and other higher education institutions should respond to this opportunity.
“I am happy to see that our universities are working together with foreign investors to train specialists and professionals within sets of specific skills, which will allow them to get a job at IT and high-tech service centres in Lithuania as soon as they finish their studies, Kubilius said.

In order to optimise their performance and reduce costs, large international companies centralise their internal operations and establish business process centres to perform financial, accounting, IT and other operations. The creation of such centres requires a competitive business and tax environment,  modern IT infrastructure and an adequate number of appropriately-skilled professionals on the labour market. Countries compete for such centres, as they create well-paid jobs, bring knowledge and a superior corporate culture, and procure goods and services from local companies.