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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon Hunt

City banks race to hire AI experts in their thousands

Artificial Intelligence recruitment has surged among Britain’s biggest banks as they jostle to attract top talent to thousands of new roles.

Barclays hired as many as 1,374 staff in AI roles between February and April, according to data from insights business Evident, while 30 per cent of job descriptions for NatWest’s hires were AI-related.

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