UK FCA Consumer Duty Compliance

UK financial services firms: are you FCA Consumer Duty compliant?

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The UK’s new Consumer Duty rule stipulates that financial consumers should receive communications that they can understand, products and services that meet their needs, offer fair value, and have the customer support they need—when they need it. Are you ready for it?

Understand what the Consumer Duty means for financial services firms and how your team can prepare to create exceptional experiences for your customers with actionable customer feedback and insight that supports your FCA consumer duty compliance.

4 expected outcomes for financial firms

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1. Customer understanding

Communications must be simple and give customers the information they need to make informed decisions

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2. Design of products and services

Customers must have a frictionless customer experience in both digital and non-digital channels

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3. Price and value

Customers must receive the most value for the price they're paying 

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4. Customer support

Customer service must be proactive and helpful, and easy to register complaints or switch to a more suitable product or service (including from a competitor)

How UserTesting can help firms meet FCA expected outcomes

Discover key insights from your different groups of consumers through video feedback, collaborate across the organisation, and collect evidence

Check your FCA compliance readiness with UserTesting

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    1. Recruit your target audience

    Choose from a wide range of test participants with screening questions and demographic selection. Access the UserTesting Contributor Network or connect with your own customers. 

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    2. Quickly create tests

    Start capturing contextualised customer perspectives in a matter of hours with UserTesting's drag-and-drop test builder, template gallery, and machine learning-powered test distribution engine.

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    3. Form a hypothesis

    Reduce time spent on manual analysis with auto-generated analytics and data visualisation, accessible in the metrics dashboard. Quickly detect patterns, anomalies, and correlations or drill into relevant video clips to speed time to insights. 

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    4. Collaborate across teams

    Collect feedback on any experience and share key insights which need improving with other teams with UserTesting’s ecosystem of integrations and plugins, including email, Slack, Jira, or Trello.

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    5. Collect evidence

    Manage platform usage across the organization for teams leveraging workspaces for different departments, user groups, or lines of business. Collect all key findings for FCA in one place and restrict access throughout folder management. Access most-recently engaged content like tests, drafts, and highlight reel thumbnails—in a single view through Workspace page.

Additional resources

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Press Release

UserTesting Report Reveals More Than One-Third Of UK Customers Suffer ‘Poor’ Banking Experiences

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