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All the latest insight and commentary from James Daley and the Fairer Finance team.
All the latest insight and commentary from James Daley and the Fairer Finance team.
8th January 2026
Trust rises sharply across all five banking sectors, mortgages and personal loans see the biggest increase in trust. This continues the long term trend of rising trust in banking sectors since we started the survey in Spring 2015. The average trust score in the banking sectors has risen from 38.09% to 60.44% over the past 10 years.
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4th December 2025
Good design is attention-grabbing, but is attention for attention’s sake driving poor customer outcomes?
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27th November 2025
Communicating with customers who are struggling with debt
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25th November 2025
Trust in insurance rises slightly following falling premiums, but still sits well below it's peak in Spring 2023.
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11th November 2025
After a brief decline earlier this year, consumer trust in private medical insurance is rising again in Fairer Finance’s customer experience ratings.
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23rd October 2025
Last week the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a provisional decision regarding the veterinary market, an announcement that has been anticipated for some time.
How will these changes influence the pet insurance market, considering they will predominantly impact veterinary practices?
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15th October 2025
High LTV mortgages are on the rise again. But are lenders complying with the Consumer Duty standards, by clearly disclosing risks and costs during the mortgage purchase journey?
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25th September 2025
Consumers are being caught out by low quality insurance products. The Which? super-complaint highlighted the problem for home and travel insurance customers, but the problem goes wider.
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1st August 2025
No claims discounts in private medical insurance can lead to poor decision-making. Applying behavioural science reveals how insurers can rethink how they are structured and communicated.
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17th July 2025
While the Chancellor has been talking down the Financial Ombudsman, the results of a review confirm that it does a pretty good job and the changes proposed are fairly cosmetic
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7th July 2025
Last week, the Lending Standards Board announced it was closing down - the latest victim of the deregulatory, growth at all costs agenda. The government will soon have a fight on its hands
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7th July 2025
Trust has fallen in the Private Medical Insurance (PMI) market for the first time since Fairer Finance started tracking customer opinions.
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