{"id":422199,"date":"2025-09-13T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422199\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:44:15","slug":"us-financial-giants-boost-uk-investments-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422199\/","title":{"rendered":"US financial giants boost UK investments and jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) &#8211; The UK government on Saturday announced a total of over 1.25 billion pounds ($1.69 billion) of private U.S. investment in the UK&#8217;s financial services sector including PayPal, Bank of America, Citigroup and S&amp;P Global.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">New U.S. investments will create 1,800 jobs from Belfast to Edinburgh and boost benefits for millions of customers, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The deal lines up 20 billion pounds in trade between the two nations \u2013 including an expected commitment of 7 billion pounds from BlackRock to grow in the UK, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Bank of America will create up to 1,000 new jobs in Belfast, marking its first-ever operation in Northern Ireland, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Citi will invest 1.1 billion pounds across its UK operations, while in Manchester, S&amp;P Global will create 200 permanent jobs through its investment of 4 million pounds, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">($1 = 0.7377 pounds)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham in Bengaluru; Editing by Daniel Wallis and David Gregorio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) &#8211; The UK government on Saturday announced a total of over 1.25 billion pounds ($1.69 billion) of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13991,748,393,144321,4884,1144,107594,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-422199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-bank-of-america","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-financial-services-sector","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-sp-global","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115199414407603013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}