Success stories

HSBC
Leicester

Back in December 2001, HSBC strengthened its presence in Leicestershire by consolidating its business customer service centre in Leicester. HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, opted to stay in the area rather than relocate elsewhere in the country. Andy Milner, senior project manager said the bank stayed in Leicester because of the quality of its people:

“Our business customers rightly expect high levels of service and we know Leicestershire can deliver that. We have a high quality workforce in place with excellent training programmes and a flexible labour pool that means we can continue to staff our operations effectively”

The Leicester operation has three main activities, all for business customers: credit card processing, supporting electronic banking and the UK helpdesk for BACS payments. An Internet banking technical helpdesk was also relocated from London. HSBC were already employing 800 people in it business service centres and the new facility meant it could increase its staff to 1000.

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