FRENCH insurance giant AXA could create as many as 200 jobs at a new international product headquarters in Dublin for one of its key subsidiaries.

AXA Global Distributors, a subsidiary of AXA Insurance, is to create 200 jobs over the next three years in a new global life product distribution and servicing facility, it was announced today.

French insurance firm AXA today agreed to buy British financial advisors Thinc Destini in a deal which could be worth £100m (€149m).