NCSS Results: Chase on top, Bank of America Improves

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We just published the results for the National Customer Service Survey (NCSS) on Banking for 2015. This is our ongoing syndicated research program comparing the customer service at four major consumer banks: Bank of America, Chase, Citi, and Wells Fargo.

For the NCSS we interview customers within a few minutes of a customer service call to one of the companies we track. This is very different from other published research, where participants are asked to recall a customer service experience which may have happened months ago. As a result, we are able to get very reliable, detailed survey data about what’s actually happening when a customer picks up the phone.

In 2015 we saw Bank of America make significant improvements in our survey. In one year, BofA’s score for Call Resolution went up 13 points, its score for Ease of Reaching and Agent went up 11 points, and overall satisfaction with the customer service call was up 13 points over the past two years.

Chase took the honors for best scores overall, even though it didn’t have as dramatic an improvement as Bank of America. Chase had the highest scores in seven of the nine key metrics we track in our report, and generally continued the upward trajectory it has been on since we started our survey in 2011.

Meanwhile Citi took a beating, losing 13 points in overall satisfaction with the company, 12 points in satisfaction with the customer service call, and claiming the bottom slot in eight of the nine metrics.

The 2015 results represent a reversal for both Bank of America and Citi. When we started the survey in 2011, Chase and Citi were posting lower survey scores than Wells Fargo and Bank of America. But Chase and Citi made several years of improvement, while Bank of America’s scores were generally flat. This year, though, Bank of America is back in the middle of the pack with its gains, and Citi’s scores are behind its competitors.

It’s hard to speculate on what might be driving these major changes this year. Improving the customer experience is a process, not a project, and it’s possible that Citi has been distracted with other priorities.

You can get a copy of the Executive Summary sent to you through our website:

National Customer Service Survey on Banking, 2015 Executive Summary

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Peter Leppik
Peter U. Leppik is president and CEO of Vocalabs. He founded Vocal Laboratories Inc. in 2001 to apply scientific principles of data collection and analysis to the problem of improving customer service. Leppik has led efforts to measure, compare and publish customer service quality through third party, independent research. At Vocalabs, Leppik has assembled a team of professionals with deep expertise in survey methodology, data communications and data visualization to provide clients with best-in-class tools for improving customer service through real-time customer feedback.

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