⦿ Sector · Financial Services

Insight for regulated categories.

Banks, insurers, wealth managers and fintech challengers – research built for senior decision rooms in tightly regulated markets.

hsbc
aviva
zurich
Legal & General
bt
hsbc
aviva
zurich
Legal & General
bt
hsbc
aviva
zurich
Legal & General
bt
hsbc
aviva
zurich
Legal & General
bt
Capabilities

What we do for the sector

Brand and trust tracking

U&A, occasion mapping and shopper missions across grocery, hospitality and on-trade.

Customer segmentation

Segments that work for product, channel and proposition teams alike.

Proposition and pricing

Concept and conjoint work that quantifies appeal, willingness to pay and switching.

Vulnerable customer research

Ethical, sensitive recruitment and moderation across protected audiences.

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Standards

Research that respects the category.

Financial services research has to clear higher bars: regulation, trust, customer vulnerability. We bring senior moderators and proven methodologies to every brief – and design studies that hold up to compliance review.

  • FCA-aware research design
  • Vulnerable customer-safe recruitment
  • Senior moderators across qual
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Brand and Proposition

Brand and proposition work that builds trust.

In a category where trust is the product, positioning and proposition work has to ring true. We help FS brands find a distinctive voice without overstepping- and pressure-test claims with the people who'll have to live with them.

FAQs

Questions buyers ask us.

Do you work with FCA-regulated firms?

Yes – the majority of our FS work is with FCA-regulated firms. We’re familiar with compliance review cycles and design research that holds up to scrutiny.

We’ve built ethical recruitment and moderation protocols specifically for vulnerable audiences – from people in financial distress to bereaved customers. Every project is reviewed by a senior moderator before fieldwork.

Yes. Recent B2B FS work spans commercial banking, SME lending, corporate insurance and asset management – with C-suite, treasury and procurement audiences.

Yes – we design comparative claim tests that meet the evidential thresholds compliance teams expect, including blind sample sizes and pre-registered analysis plans.

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