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Grant Thornton: Strategic Hiring
Grant Thornton rolling out Anthropic's Claude AI across entire UK workforce with £500m investment; opening Digital Experience Centre in London to embed AI into services and shift from process-heavy to higher-value advisory work.
Source: City AM
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A hiring build-out like this points to deepening financial services executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 112.9 (Hot) (up 11.4 month-on-month), EMEA is at easing (-3.2pts) on signal share.
Grant Thornton: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 2 tracked across 50 days.
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