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By: Reuters | 16 Jun 2009 | 12:03 PM ET
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Banks, insurers and asset managers worldwide have announced 383,661 job cuts since August 2007, when the credit crisis began to intensify.

Here is a list of the deepest job cuts at major companies:

  The Deepest Job Cuts at Major Financial Companies
Company Jobs CutHeadcount before Aug 07Latest Headcount
American Express11,000unavailableunavailable
Bank Of America45,500 195,675284,802 (March 31)
Barclays9,050 127,700 156,300 (Dec. 31)
Citigroup75,000361,000 309,000 (March 31)
Credit Suisse 7,32045,60046,700 (March 31)
Deutsche Bank1,38075,14080,277 (April 15)
Fidelity Investments 4,000unavailable40,000
Goldman Sachs 4,800 29,905 27,898 (March 27)
HSBC 16,350 312,577 312,866 (Dec. 31)
ING over 7,000 119,097 114,035 (March 31)
JP Morgan23,700179,664219,569 (March 31)+
UBS19,700 81,55776,200 (March 31)
Morgan Stanley 8,680 45,845 44,616 (March 31)
PNC5,800 28,054 59,000 (April 23)
RBS15,250 135,400 174,000 (Dec. 31)++
State Street 1,800 24,500 27,500 (March 31)
Merrill Lynch3,300 61,900 N/A
Santander2,600 135,922 181,166 (March 31)
First American5,460 38,000 31,411 (Dec. 31)
Lehman12,570 N/AN/A
National City Corp7,400 32,445 N/A
Lloyds3,595 66,000 58,756

Merrill Lynch: Layoffs before takeover by Bank of America closed on Jan. 1.
Lloyds: Includes nearly 3,000 cuts since takeover of HBOS in early 2009.
Lehman: Number made up of about 6,000 job cuts made before the bank collapsed in September and an estimated 10,500 left jobless after the bank collapsed -- about 8,000 others were transferred to Nomura and 10,000 to Barclays.
RBS: Includes employees from ABN AMRO acquired in October 2007.
JP Morgan: Includes 38,211 staff from the acquisition of Washington Mutual.

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