Independent service quality survey results

Business current accounts

Published August 2023

As part of a regulatory requirement, an independent survey was conducted to ask approximately 1,200 customers of each of the 15 largest business current account providers if they would recommend their provider to other small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs*). The results represent the view of customers who took part in the survey.

Overall service quality

We asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their business current account provider to other SMEs.

Ranking

Business current accounts Overall service quality survey results.  Ranking 1st place Monzo 84%, 2nd place Starling Bank 82%, 3rd place Handelsbanken 74%, 4th place tide 73%, 5th place Metro Bank 63%, equal 8th place Bank of Scotland 54%

Online and mobile banking services

We asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider’s online and mobile banking services to other SMEs.

Ranking

Business current accounts Online and mobile banking services survey results.  Ranking 1st place Monzo 87%, 2nd place Starling Bank 86%, 3rd place tide 76%, equal 4th place Lloyds Bank 68%, equal 4th place NatWest 68%, equal 6th place Bank of Scotland 64%

SME overdraft and loan services

We asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider’s SME overdraft and loan services to other SMEs.

Ranking

Business current accounts SME overdrafts and loan services survey results.  Ranking 1st place Handelsbanken 64%, 2nd place Lloyds Bank 57%, equal 3rd place NatWest 56%, equal 3rd place Metro Bank 56%, 5th place HSBC UK 53%, equal 6th place Bank of Scotland 51%

Relationship/account management

We asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider’s relationship/account management to other SMEs.

Ranking

Business current accounts Relationship/account management survey results.  Ranking 1st place Handelsbanken 81%, 2nd place Monzo 73%, 3rd place tide 69%, 4th place Starling Bank 68%, 5th place Metro Bank 63%, 10th place Bank of Scotland 50%

Service in branches and business centres

We asked customers how likely they would be to recommend their provider’s branch and business centre services to other SMEs.

Ranking

Business current accounts Service in branches and business centres survey results.  Ranking 1st place Metro Bank 70%, 2nd place Handelsbanken 61%, 3rd place Lloyds Bank 55%, equal 4th place NatWest 53%, equal 4th place Bank of Scotland 53%

These results are from an independent survey carried out between July 2022 and June 2023 by BVA BDRC as part of a regulatory requirement.

Bank of Scotland has published this information at the request of the Competition and Markets Authority so you can compare the quality of service from business 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.

SME customers with business 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 business centres, SME overdraft and loan services and relationship/account management services to other SMEs.

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, Handelsbanken, HSBC UK, Lloyds Bank, Metro Bank, Monzo, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander, Starling Bank, The Co-operative Bank, Tide, TSB, Virgin Money.

Approximately 1,200 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.

18,000 people were surveyed in total.

Results are updated every six months, in August and February.

*SMEs include businesses, clubs, charities and societies with an annual turnover/income of up to £25m (exclusive of VAT and other turnover-related taxes).

To find out more visit BVA-BDRC.com/business-banking-service-quality

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