The total number of licenses it issued was up 1.7% at the end of March, compared with nine months earlier, and just shy of an all-time peak in 2019. The bank took on 100 contractors and 80 graduates in the year to March. HIRING SPREEBesides Goldman and Citigroup, Swiss bank UBS hired 200 people in the year through March, which consisted of 20 new full-time staff compared to seven in the previously financial year, a spokesman said. It was the highest number of graduate recruits to join UBS in more than 10 years. Citigroup, for example, has said it is bulking up its staffing by 1,500 people, including additional headcount and replacements in 2021, double the number of people it hired a year ago.
Compared to six months prior to 2019, over 1000 people were hired.
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    :ARG1 (z1 / person
              :quant (z2 / over
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                           :quant (z5 / temporal-quantity
                                      :quant 6
                                      :unit (z6 / month))
                           :op1 (z7 / date-entity
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Compared to six months prior to 2019 , over 1000 people were hired .
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