Financial services resources

Start here to explore our curated resources for insurance, banking, and financial services experiences, including use cases, guides, best practices, expert advice, test templates, podcasts, and webinars.

Use cases for banking and financial services experiences

Onboarding is crucial in the financial services space, as customers provide sensitive information and expect security and privacy. Users are either clicks away from trusting and successfully adopting your product—or giving up and looking to competitors for a better experience. Check our latest guide to uncover how to optimize and innovate onboarding for digital bank account opening experiences.

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Today’s consumers expect access to their finances anytime, anywhere, across all their devices. If customers struggle to complete transactions or find key information while on the go, these negative experiences can quickly outweigh any positive experiences they’ve had in bank branches. Try our customer journey template to understand how customers interact with your product across all touchpoints and uncover areas for improvement and optimization.

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More so than any other industry, privacy and security are top priorities for financial services organizations. Consumers need to be certain that their money is safe and insured, and they want transparency around fees, fraud prevention, and what the institution does with the money. Try our data privacy template to ensure customers trust their financial data with your organization.

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From online advertisements to in-branch experiences to chatbot interactions, every touchpoint shapes the consumer’s opinion of your financial services brand. Positive experiences lead to greater loyalty, and negative experiences drive customers to competitors. Try our banking experiences template to gain a holistic view of how your customers perceive your institution.

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Webinars for financial services teams

Hear what today’s top financial services experts are saying in these live and on-demand sessions

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Comparing the digital experience of the top 5 U.S. banks

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UK banking: adapt, evolve, and transform digital experiences

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Humanizing self-service banking with UserTesting

Guide

Boost digital banking conversions and onboarding

Use this guide to discover how some of the most successful retail banks and financial institutions have tackled challenges with the digital account opening process. By addressing common hurdles—like overly complex onboarding steps and unmet customer expectations—you’ll see how they boosted conversion rates and elevated customer satisfaction.

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    Top 5 customer frustrations with digital bank account opening

    Opening a digital bank account should be easy and user-friendly. Yet, for many customers...
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    How top financial organizations boost ROI

    Gone are the days when the only option to deposit checks was to bring...
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    How smooth is your onboarding experience? Key questions to ask

    Digital account opening isn’t a “nice-to-have”—it’s essential to winning new customers and staying competitive...
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    Retail banking: boost your customer experience

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional banks became keenly aware of the importance of customer...
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    Financial services usability testing

    ​Financial service organizations face unique challenges when conducting usability testing , from strict regulations...
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    Create great banking onboarding experiences

    ​What was the best onboarding experience you ever had? While this can depend on...
  • Use case guidebook: testing financial services experiences

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    Use case guidebook: testing financial services experiences

    Customer empathy, better products, and superior digital experiences. These are the expectations consumers have...
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    How top financial services organizations create great experiences

    To uncover the best practices of retail banking customer experiences, we ran a competitor...
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    Banco Sabadell

    Witness what happened after Banco Sabadell set the standard that all their digital experiences earn a QXscore™ of 85 before they go live
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    5 tips for user testing at financial services companies

    We recently sat down for a chat with Maggie Young, a customer experience evangelist...
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    Top 5 customer frustrations with digital bank account opening

    Opening a digital bank account should be easy and user-friendly. Yet, for many customers...
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    How to modernize your banking experiences to deliver better CX

    If you think about what’s transforming businesses today, whether you’re in the banking space...

Report

Comparing the digital experience of the top 5 US banks

Giving customers a great digital experience is a moving goalpost. Just when you think you've nailed it, the bar rises higher. That's why we asked 1,500 digital banking consumers to use the websites of the top five US banks, share their perspectives, and rate their experiences. Check out the report to see how the results show there's still room for improvement.

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Customer success stories

Explore the power of human insight across financial services

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    Tesco Bank

    Learn how the UK retail bank understands customer behaviors, tests marketing materials, and developed their online claims process
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    T. Rowe Price

    Witness how quick insights from UserTesting contributors helped T. Rowe Price solve a business-critical design problem
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    Banco Sabadell

    Witness what happened after Banco Sabadell set the standard that all their digital experiences earn a QXscore™ of 85 before they go live
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    Experian

    Discover how Experian gained valuable insights regarding their power users and end customers
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    Wise

    Check out how Wise relies on UserTesting to help over 10 million people and businesses manage their money across the world
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    Customer story

    ATB Financial

    Learn how ATB Financial rapidly innovates their platform with customers in mind
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    TaxSlayer

    Watch how testing with customers helps TaxSlayer improve its software quickly.
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    Everypaw by Cardif Pinnacle

    Read how Everypaw pet insurance used human insight to refine a TV campaign that increased their market share
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    KeyBank

    See how KeyBank leveraged human insight to upgrade their ATMs and increase net promoter scores by 44%

UserTesting Solutions

Differentiate financial services experiences with UserTesting

Leverage UserTesting's platform and services to create competitive financial services experiences that reduce costs, boost efficiencies, and drive customer loyalty, trust, and retention.

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Create great financial services customer experiences

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