Member of R3 Finland’s OP Financial Group is Recruiting Blockchain Talents
During 2016, OP will be hiring over 100 digital experts to fulfill its mission of promoting sustainable prosperity and security and get OP through this financial breakthrough. Newspaper Tivi writes that digital experts will be needed to take on the roles of enterprise leaders and developers or heads of new projects in Blockchain technologies, IoT and cloud computing architecture. Bloomberg Markets recognised Finland's OP Financial Group as number eight in its list of 20 strongest banks in the world. Investing 2 billion euros in digi-services. The level of annual development expenditure....
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