Financial Research Survey


Are we approaching a crucial point in financial behavioural change?

Coronavirus didn’t just shake the financial stability of consumers, it made many realise the volatility created by their past financial behaviours. Associate Director Kerry Barringer analyses the impact of COVID-19 on consumers' personal financial situations and the likely longevity of any financial behavioural changes.
Financial Services Publication

A penny saved, is a penny earned

Does money slip out of your hands as soon as you get it? Cameron Stevenson explains how new providers are making it easier for all of us to save and invest.
Financial Services Publication

Current account switching has been on hiatus for the last six months. Will things start to turn around as we approach the end of 2020?

Leo Brownstein of the Financial Research Survey team looks at the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on current account switching, and why things might start to pick up in 2021.

Coronavirus and unemployment fears fuel interest in life insurance

Since the outbreak of coronavirus, Britons have been giving more thought to life insurance
Financial Security Publication

Vulnerable Customers – What happens when the money runs out?

In this new paper, our financial services and social intelligence experts explain the type of knowledge and research necessary to fully understand and anticipate the needs of newly vulnerable financial services customers, and how search engine data can support that.

Get on board the (savings) equality train

Alpa Shah examines the rapid exacerbation of wealth inequalities in the cash savings market as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis and argues this is unlikely to change without radical, yet sensitive solutions.
Ethnicity Survey

George Floyd and a fragmented Britain

This opinion piece by Flora Vieites examines the recent events in the Black Lives Matter protests and the financial inequality that exists in Britain for minority ethnic groups, and asks: what can financial institutions do to play their part?

Young Investors – risk takers or cautious consumers?

Ipsos Research Assistant, Matt Franks, investigates the investment products that young investors favour and whether they are more risk assertive than previous generations.
Financial Services Publication

My Top 10 Predictions for UK retail financial services in 2020

What does 2020 have in store for the retail financial services sector? Read all about the big consumer trends and what the regulator might have in store for providers in a new blog by Research Director, Alpa Shah.