How many times have you been mis-sold?

Recently, I was talking to one of my colleagues who was mis-sold his mobile phone contract. Interestingly enough, I stumbled across a research carried out by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK which suggested that more than 9% of all consumers were mis-sold products or services in recent past. Several questions emerged in [...]

Consequences of consumer confusion

As stated in my earlier post ‘antecedents to consumer confusion‘, I shall focus on consequences of consumer confusion in this post. The earlier post focused on three important antecedents to consumer confusion namely; expectations, attribute confusion and information confusion in the context of financial services industry (i.e. banks, insurance. credit card, mortgage and other such [...]

Podcast: Antecedents to consumer confusion

Listen to the podcast on the ‘antecedents to consumer confusion’. The original article can be found here: Antecedents to consumer confusion in financial services industry This being my first podcast I would really appreciate any feedback on this.

Antecedents to consumer confusion in financial services industry

It is only the later part of the 20th century financial services institutions (FSIs) started morphing into a different shape altogether. Previously, a bank provided only banking services (i.e. mostly a place where you can deposit and withdraw money or similar assets). However, banks changed their role in a short span of time from consumer [...]