A financial services firm has announced plans to take on 200 new staff in Galway and Dublin.

Fidelity Investments is to hire workers to fill roles in technology, back-office operations and enterprise services over the next few years, IDA Ireland said.

Fidelity Investments had managed assets of $1.7 trillion at the end of September.

Meanwhile, gaming company Swrve has announced plans to add 100 jobs to its workforce over the next two years.

The firm, one of the world’s leading mobile gaming businesses, will create the jobs on the back of funding worth $6.25 million (€4.92 million) led by Atlantic Bridge Partners and Intel Capital.

Swrve is already used by some of the world’s largest games publishers and handles the data of more than five million players every day.