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
Case study
Financial Services Relationship Management
This Financial Services Relationship Management case study demonstrates how Harris delivered an improved understanding of our client's customer's business needs, which enabled them to deliver sustainable, profitable performance to outperform the market both locally and globally.... Read More
News and Blogs
Apple, the world’s latest Fintech?
To test the interest among UK consumers in the recently unveiled Apple Credit Card (the card is initially launching in the US, with no date for Britain yet announced) we ran a quick survey the day after the announcement using our Harris 24 solution. Read more...... Read More
Are today’s financial products keeping up with digital transformation?
According to a recent survey from Harris Interactive, more than half of consumers (52%) want to see more innovation in financial services, but the drive for change is particularly high amongst millennials. ... Read More
The importance of Vitality in a financial world
Whether it’s Lego developing new sets based on builders’ ideas or DHL’s Parcelcopter, many brands recognise the opportunities that can be gained from encouraging consumers to suggest how brands can improve and getting them to interact with the brand.... Read More
Testimonials
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We have enjoyed a strong working relationship with Harris Interactive for a number of years, and this hasn’t happened by accident. Through their flexibility and thoughtful account management, they have always been able to design solutions which take into account the practical realities of our business. Above all, we have benefited from responsive, flexible and attentive service and an account team that ‘just gets it’, giving me the assurance that we can always trust them to come up with answers and to deliver reliably. - Financial Services Insight Manager
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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 Video
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Agility Paradox 2019A taste of ITWP's #agilityparadox19 June 2019 - The Berkeley Hotel, London. Harris Interactive UK and Toluna were joined by more than 130 marketing and research professionals, and guest speakers from Coke, HSBC and Reckitt Benckiser to explore the agility paradox. -
Highlights: The future of community-based researchITWP (Harris Interactive and Toluna) hosted an interactive debate on the future of community-based research. Some of the world’s biggest brand owners demonstrated the positive impact digital insight communities are having on their business.
Latest Services
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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.
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.