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Metro Bank

  Financial Services in the UK

Metro Bank overall Effort Score: 48 Metro Bank vs 52 Metro Bank last quarter
Sector Effort Score benchmark: 59 Metro Bank vs 58 Metro Bank last quarter

Quite the decline for Metro Bank, as its Overall Customer Effort score sees a sharp decline of -4 points, after all four of its pillars drop in score. As a result, Metro has dropped to the bottom of the UK Financial Services rankings.

Speed of Resolving the Problem took the biggest hit, declining by -5 points to 46. The reason for this being 2% fewer customers rated it as ‘excellent’ for how easy it was to find the information they wanted on the website/app.

There are some positives, however. More of Metro Bank’s customers (41%) rated ‘excellent’ on how quickly they were able to achieve what they set out to do.

The bank should look to improve its Knowledge and Expertise score in the coming quarter, after it saw a -3 point drop, although it is still +5 points ahead of its score at the beginning of the year.

The bank could see another drop next quarter, however, as it warned UK customers it would start charging them a 2.99% fee on debit card transactions outside the UK - including Europe - from 29 August. Has it communicated this well enough? 

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Customer Effort in detail

Style of Communication 54 vs 56 last quarter

43% say the politeness of their customer service agents is 'excellent'

46% rate the ability to communicate with them in their chosen language (other than English) as 'good'

Knowledge and Expertise 47 vs 50 last quarter

38% rate the expertise of the customer service agent as 'good'

39% say the way details were clearly explained to them was 'good'

46% rate how well the customer service agent understood their particular problem or question as 'good'

Understanding & Valuing the Customer 48 vs 49 last quarter

39% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'good'

40% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'excellent'

53% rate how they were able to speak to a customer service agent that can help them with their query as 'excellent'

Speed Solving the Problem 46 vs 51 last quarter

40% rate how easy it was to find the information they wanted on the website/app as 'excellent'

41% rate how they were able to achieve what they set out to do, or resolve their issue, with the first agent they contacted as "good"

39% rate how they were not left 'on-hold' or in a call queuing system for a long time as 'good'

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ContactEngine believes that a great customer experience is an effortless one, where life is made as easy as possible for the customer. ContactEngine commissioned the Customer Effort Index to measure how real people perceive the effort it takes to be a customer of some of the leading brands in the world. By enabling a comparison of effort not only within an industry, but across industries, we can identify and learn from the brands who lead on making it easy for their customers to do business with them.