Financial Services Research
Harris Interactive’s award-winning, full-service Financial Services Research Team combines sector expertise with a rich heritage in market research and agile solutions, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions at the speeds required today. We provide leading companies with impactful insights, advice and guidance they need to make sound, strategic business decisions that ultimately make a difference to their bottom line performance. We have a wealth of experience in stakeholder relationships, brand and marketing communications research, literature testing, product and service development, product lifecycle reviews and regulatory developments.
A Wealth of Financial Services Research Expertise
The financial services sector is complex and contains many diverse sub-sectors and Harris Interactive is able to bring its knowledge and experience to bear in researching all areas of the industry. We conduct market research among a variety of stakeholders, including senior decision makers, IFAs, brokers, consumers, HNWIs, employees, corporate and affinity partners. The team is staffed by individuals with a great deal of knowledge, business understanding and research expertise in the sector and who combine agency experience with time spent on the client side and experience of delivery up to board level.
Our clients include:
- Retail, commercial and investment banks
- Wealth management / private banks
- Personal and commercial insurers
- Life providers
- Regulatory bodies / trade associations
- Management consultancies
- Price comparison websites
Latest Events
News and Blogs
Sand, Sea and Interest Rate Rises!
Just when you thought it was safe to go on holiday and enjoy yourself… you heard that base rates had gone up! We surveyed consumers within a day of the rate rise using Harris 24 to understand their current financial situation and how the rate rise impacts on them.... Read More
FCA initiatives ring true for consumers
This week, the FCA launched its Business Plan for 2018/19, setting out its priorities for the next year. In light of this, we asked the UK public to give us their views on the FCA’s initiatives.... Read More
What a load of Chatbots!
What do UK consumers think about chatbots? More than 1,000 consumers gave us their thoughts using our rapid Harris 24 online survey platform.... Read More
Testimonials
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“Concept Express was quick, efficient and sufficiently flexible to suit our requirements. The online real time system was a good way to engage our stakeholders and excited real interest in the project. It raised the profile of research internally and challenged – positively – expectations of what could be delivered by when.” Customer Insights Manager – UK High Street Bank
Latest Services
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Harris 24 is especially for when you need answers fast from the general population. 1000-2000 responses can be achieved in less than 24 hrs
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An agile concept testing service with fully automated results. Make faster decisions on product and service concepts
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Online communities facilitate an ongoing conversation with your customers, putting them at the heart of everything you do.
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Permission-based digital tracking offer that passively gathers behavioural data in real time.
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PopUP Communities from Harris Interactive allow you to launch projects within hours, designed and moderated by research experts, tapping directly into our global panel and bringing you engaging output to share instantly with your key decision makers.
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PopUP Communities from Harris Interactive empower you to run flexible in-depth research, quickly and simply, amongst your desired audience, with maximum impact. See how they work...
How We Help Clients
Below are some examples of how we’ve helped clients recently.
- Improving investment product brochures and website content to aid understanding and help consumers make informed decisions.
- In light of regulatory changes, helping a syndicate of insurers to understand and benchmark how well changes to renewal letters have been implemented from the customers’ point of view.
- Tracking the brand strength of a global investment provider amongst HNWI and senior B2B audiences across the globe, a programme we have supported for over 15 years, including helping them to redefine their positioning on two occasions.
- Identifying the investment needs and complexity of structured products for investors with different levels of financial sophistication for an industry body. Outputs included a bespoke online simulator
- Helping insurance providers understand consumer hunger for, and concerns about ‘Smart technology’
- Establishing which insurance propositions appeal most to consumers, providing the client with real-time data so they could start to consider the implications during fieldwork.
- Measuring the impact of numeracy skills on financial capability.
Exploring attitudes and behaviours to pensions across different age groups, helping our client shine a light on the UK’s pension crisis, including for PR purposes.
- Helping a price comparison website to identify the appeal of potential new propositions to help it decide whether to enter a new market.
hi brands: Top Sustainable Financial Services Brands
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The hi brands study measures brand sustainability across penetration, equity, future relevance and vitality for a wide variety of popular brands. These are the UK's top 5 sustainable Banking brands.
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The hi brands study measures brand sustainability across penetration, equity, future relevance and vitality for a wide variety of popular brands. These are the UK's top 5 sustainable Credit Card brands.
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The hi brands study measures brand sustainability across penetration, equity, future relevance and vitality for a wide variety of popular brands. These are the UK's top 5 sustainable Price Comparison Website brands.
Experts
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Michael Worledge
Financial Services Sector HeadMichael is the Harris Interactive Financial Services sector head. He joined Harris Interactive in 2005 and has been in market research for over 20 years. After working in consumer and pharmaceutical research as well as ops-project management, Michael has specialised in Financial Services research at Harris. He has worked across sub-sectors, initiated and led a qualitative syndicate looking at the future of insurance, and has written two papers which have been finalists for the MRS Financial Services Research Award, winning in 2012 with GIMRA. Michael has extensive experience in both consumer and B2B market research, has a BSc in French and German from Aston University and is a Certified Member of the Market Research Society. -
Vicky Whiting
Research DirectorVicky is a Research Director in the financial services team at Harris Interactive and has 15 years’ experience of delivering market research to the financial services industry. This includes client and agency side roles at The Pensions Regulator, BDRC Continental, ORC International and the Money Advice Service. Through this background, she has developed specialisms in financial capability and later life savings research, including pensions. Vicky has a degree in Mathematics and Statistics and although her core skills lie in quantitative research design and analysis, she has full methodological expertise and regularly incorporates qualitative techniques to add depth to a research project. She has a managed a range of ad hoc, tracking, B2B and consumer research throughout her career, and enjoys a challenging brief. Since joining Harris in July 2017, Vicky has worked closely with the advanced analytics team to develop our new brand measurement approach (hi brands®) and apply regression models to examine the impact of numeracy skills on financial capacity. Vicky is a member of the Market Research Society.
Latest Video
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Automated Concept Testing for Financial ServicesRecorded 28th Feb 2017 and presented by Harris Interactive’s Michael Worledge – Head Financial Services Research, and Debbie Senior – VP Global Products and Automation. This webinar presents Concept Express an agile, fully automated concept testing service.