Monzo are rated the best bank in Britain

Just seen on a post on Monzos Facebook page that they’re promoting how well they’ve done in each of the categories.

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.

Link…

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Here are the complete survey results; https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/personal-banking-service-quality-great-britain-august-2021
And a breakdown of the methodlogy used; https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/pca-detailed-methodology-august-2021.pdf

Screen grabs for the lazy among you;

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We should create a wiki to compare these over time!

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Excellent result for monzo and I think well deserved. The app works brilliantly. I have quite a few criticisms of monzo but the smoothness of the app plus bill splits and shared tabs keeps me with monzo.

I would say, however, that Monzo’s lead is far from insurmountable and the issues we keep seeing with customer service, specialists, difficulty making large payments, problems paying in cash/cheques, etc need addressing sooner rather than later.

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How I would rank the banks I’ve had interactions with:

  1. Nationwide
  2. Santander
  3. Starling Bank
  4. NatWest
  5. Tesco Bank
  6. Barclays
  7. Virgin Money
  8. Monzo
  9. Lloyds

These sorts of things are subjective. Parts of what Monzo has done have annoyed me but won’t bother other users. People have different requirements from their bank which is why for me, Santander ranks highly yet is in the bottom half for this survey.

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Wow, I was starting to think my little Rickroll stunt would have destroyed the rankings this year.

On a serious note, :clap: we did amazing :heart:

And so did all you, the community! :heartpulse:

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Also noteworthy is that this time, for the first time, Monzo feature in the Nothern Ireland rankings too due to achieving the required threshold level of customer numbers.

They have gone straight in at the number 1 spot there.

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No, we’re never going to give you up

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No, we’re never going to give you up

Sad. It’s okay though, @Rat_au_van. I’m never going to let you down. :monzo: :heart:

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Can’t see starling on the Northern Ireland stats which is surprising as I know a couple of people who use them

Guess I know the entire customer base here then

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It’s time for the Bank of Ordog to make an appearance!

Watch this space :soon: :eyes:

p.s. Can anyone lend me a few million pounds please?

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Interesting points.

I do wonder what the “unsatisfied” are unsatisfied about, exactly. Is it customer service, is it features not working how they would like, is it charges that they think are too high?

I also think a lot of these factors will be different for different banks. Some may be unsatisfied at Virgin Money because they are annoyed about the rebrand (and some branch closures/amalgamations as a result). Conversely, others may think their bank isn’t improving their app fast enough.

It would be really good if the survey asked people more follow-up questions, but I doubt it will ever change to be more detailed.

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And I think a lot of the time, people get annoyed at a bank and the bank has done nothing wrong.

“I hate Natwest!! They are terrible!!!”
“What happened?”
“I went over/into an overdraft and they charged me!”

Ermm…

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The overdraft satisfaction figures seem to agree with you

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No, you should have said “I’m looking for an angel investor”

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Are other banks as transparent with their overdraft charging as Monzo?

It would seem it has not made much difference if that’s the case. Although they’re not a million miles off top spot be fair.

Perhaps it’s how reserved they are with their lending :man_shrugging:

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First Direct’s fee-free £250 overdraft is what keeps them in Number 1 spot for overdrafts.

Unless a bank comes along offering a higher fee-free overdraft as standard, I don’t see that changing.

Nothing is better, from a customer perspective, than free!

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Never understand RBS always being so much lower than Natwesr

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The same has always happened with Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland; Clydesdale and Yorkshire before they merged into Virgin Money; RBS and NatWest.

It’s one reason I don’t set much store by the rankings, frankly, as it reveals how much people’s ratings seem to be swayed by overall brand perception and not their genuine personal experience of the bank.

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I don’t even know what one of those are :rofl: I need a ‘creating a bank for dummies’ course… be right back…

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