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Independent service quality survey results

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Great Britain

Personal current accounts

Published August 2021

As part of a regulatory requirement, an independent survey was conducted to ask approximately 1000 customers of each of the 17 largest personal current account providers if they would recommend their provider to friends and family. The results represent the view of customers who took part in the survey.

Graph showing the results of the CMA scoring of UK banks in the Overall Service Quality category. The CMA asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their personal current account provider to friends and family. The rankings with percentage scores are: 1st Monzo with 83%. Joint 2nd are First Direct and Starling Bank with 81%. 3rd Metro Bank with 74%. 5th Nationwide with 68%.
Graph showing the results of the CMA scoring of UK banks in the Online and Mobile Banking Services category. The CMA asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider's online and mobile banking services to friends and family. The rankings with percentage scores are: 1st Monzo with 88%. 2nd Starling Bank with 87%. 3rd First Direct 82%. 4th Halifax with 80%. 5th Nationwide with 79%.
Graph showing the results of the CMA scoring of UK banks in the Overdraft Services category. The CMA asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider's overdraft services to friends and family. The rankings with percentage scores are: 1st First Direct with 67%. 2nd Metro Bank with 66%. Joint 3rd are Monzo, Starling Bank, and Lloyds Bank with 65%.
Image showing that Monzo didn't receive a score from the CMA for the Services in Branches category because Monzo doesn't have any branches.

These results are from an independent survey carried out between July 2020 and June 2021 by Ipsos MORI as part of a regulatory requirement.

Monzo has published this information at the request of the Competition and Markets Authority so you can compare the quality of service from personal current account providers. In providing this information, we are not giving you any advice or making any recommendation to you and we can only give you information about our own products and services.

Customers with personal current accounts were asked how likely they would be to recommend their provider, their provider’s online and mobile banking services, services in branches and overdraft services to friends and family.

The results show the proportion of customers of each provider, among those who took part in the survey, who said they were ’extremely likely’ or ‘very likely’ to recommend each service.

Participating providers: Bank of Scotland, Barclays, first direct, Halifax, HSBC UK, Lloyds Bank, Metro Bank, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander UK, Starling Bank, Tesco Bank, The Co-operative Bank, TSB, and Virgin Money.

Approximately 1000 customers a year are surveyed across Great Britain for each provider; results are only published where at least 100 customers have provided an eligible score for that service in the survey period.

17,059 people were surveyed in total. Results are updated every six months, in August and February.

To find out more visit Ipsos.uk/personal-banking-service-quality

The requirement to publish the Financial Conduct Authority Service Quality Information for personal current accounts can be found here.

Northern Ireland

Personal current accounts

Published August 2021

As part of a regulatory requirement, an independent survey was conducted to ask approximately 500 customers of each of the 10 largest personal current account providers if they would recommend their provider to friends and family. The results represent the view of customers who took part in the survey.

Graph showing the results of the CMA scoring of UK banks in the Overall Service Quality category. The CMA asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their personal current account provider to friends and family. The rankings with percentage scores are: 1st Monzo with 80%. 2nd Nationwide with 73%. 3rd Barclays with 68%. 4th Halifax with 67%. Joint 5th is HSBC UK with 64%.
Graph showing the results of the CMA scoring of UK banks in the Online and Mobile Banking Services category. The CMA asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider's online and mobile banking services to friends and family. The rankings with percentage scores are: 1 Monzo, with 87%. Joint 2nd are Halifax and Santander with 83%. Joint 4th are Barclays and Nationwide with 80%.
Graph showing the results of the CMA scoring of UK banks in the Overdraft Services category. The CMA asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider's overdraft services to friends and family. The rankings with percentage scores are: Joint 1st are Barclays and HSBC UK with 72%. 3rd Santander with 64%. 4th Halifax with 63%. 5th Nationwide with 60%. And Monzo 6th with 58%
Image showing that Monzo didn't receive a score from the CMA for the Services in Branches category because Monzo doesn't have any branches.

These results are from an independent survey carried out between June 2020 and July 2021 by Ipsos MORI as part of a regulatory requirement.

Monzo has published this information at the request of the Competition and Markets Authority so you can compare the quality of service from personal current account providers. In providing this information, we are not giving you any advice or making any recommendation to you and we can only give you information about our own products and services.

Customers with personal current accounts were asked how likely they would be to recommend their provider, their provider’s online and mobile banking services, services in branches and overdraft services to friends and family.

The results show the proportion of customers of each provider, among those who took part in the survey, who said they were ’extremely likely’ or ‘very likely’ to recommend each service.

Participating providers: AIB, Bank of Ireland UK, Barclays, Danske Bank, Halifax, HSBC UK, Monzo, Nationwide, Santander UK and Ulster Bank.

Approximately 500 customers a year are surveyed across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for each provider; results are only published where at least 100 customers have provided an eligible score for that service in the survey period.

5,028 people were surveyed in total. Results are updated every six months, in August and February.

To find out more visit Ipsos.uk/personal-banking-service-quality

The requirement to publish the Financial Conduct Authority Service Quality Information for personal current accounts can be found here.