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Comment: HSBC shows Birmingham can dream big

You might not know, but a national competition has been going on behind closed doors to be the new home of HSBC in the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ... and Birmingham won

If you listen very carefully you can probably hear teeth gnashing in a few parts of the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ.

When announces it everyone wants a piece of the action. All the cities and major conurbations in the country line up and make their best case.

And guess what, Birmingham’s was best.

This is the biggest deal of a generation for this city but it will make waves stretching across Europe and beyond.

Following on from which has expanded rapidly in the city, the eyes of the banking world are currently here.

Yes, here. In Birmingham. That place that never gets mentioned on telly.

When a bank makes a decision, it is market-tested.

This is not a conception, like the this is something that starts tomorrow. There’s no politics behind this – they have done their homework and research about where is the best place and it was here, with our better value, less transient workforce.