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Financial Services

Financial decisions are complex.
Your research should be too.

Mortgages, pensions, investments, insurance - decisions that are deeply personal, highly emotive, and difficult to explore honestly in a group setting. Qualzy's async format gives participants the time and privacy to open up.

ISO 27001
certified information
security management
GDPR
and CCPA
compliant
Private
journal activities for
sensitive responses
Research use cases

Research for every stage of
the financial services journey

From product development to communications testing to customer experience - Qualzy supports the full range of qualitative research that financial services brands and agencies need.

Mortgage & Property Research

Understand the emotional and rational journey of buying a home - the anxieties, the compromises, the information-seeking. Diary studies track the decision over weeks, capturing the consideration process as it unfolds rather than through retrospective recall.

Pension & Retirement Research

Pensions are uniquely difficult to research - people feel guilty about under-saving, confused by complexity, and reluctant to admit they don't understand. Async journalling, in a private setting, removes the social shame and surfaces honest attitudes towards retirement planning.

Investment & Wealth Management

Understand how investors - from ISA novices to experienced wealth management clients - think about risk, return, and trust. Private video responses and extended journalling give participants the space to be candid about financial attitudes they'd rarely share in a group.

Insurance Research

From product comprehension to claims experience to brand trust - insurance research spans some of the most emotive consumer experiences. Qualzy captures the anger, confusion, and relief of insurance interactions with the depth that closed-ended surveys cannot reach.

Banking & Payments Research

Map how consumers manage their finances daily - apps they use, frustrations they encounter, the moments where trust is built or broken. Screen recordings with verbal commentary capture digital banking journeys in real time, revealing the friction points that survey responses mask.

FCA Research & Policy Insight

Deliberative and exploratory research to understand consumer attitudes to financial regulation, product fairness, and consumer duty obligations. Structured multi-stage communities expose participants to information and track how attitudes develop over time.

Depth without group pressure

Financial honesty requires
a private space.

Money is one of the most socially fraught topics in qualitative research. In a group setting, participants position themselves - they understate debt, exaggerate financial confidence, and say what they think sounds responsible. The group dynamic actively works against the honesty you need.

Qualzy's async format removes all of that. Participants respond privately, in their own time, without an audience. The result is candid responses about financial anxiety, embarrassment, and genuine decision-making processes that focus groups rarely surface.

  • Private journal activities - responses seen only by the research team
  • No social positioning or peer comparison within the community
  • Participants can revisit and add to responses - allowing reflection, not just reaction
  • Video responses capture emotional authenticity that typed answers alone cannot convey
Why async works for financial research
Private
Journal activities visible only to the research team - ideal for sensitive financial topics like debt, savings anxiety, and pension shortfalls.
Reflective
Participants respond when ready - complex financial topics benefit from the thinking time that async allows, producing more considered responses.
No peer effect
Without social pressure, participants are more honest about financial mistakes, embarrassing situations, and genuine attitudes.
UX and journey research

Capture the digital banking
experience as it happens.

Financial services are increasingly digital - and digital product research needs tools that can follow consumers into those experiences. Qualzy's screen recording activity captures how participants navigate banking apps, comparison sites, and online application forms, with verbal narration running alongside.

This gives you the cognitive walkthrough you'd normally only get in a UX lab - but conducted in the participant's own environment, on their own device, without the artificiality of an observed session.

  • Screen recording with verbal commentary - on any device, from any location
  • Path-to-purchase diary tasks track the financial decision journey across multiple days
  • AI processes screen recording narrations into structured key points automatically
  • AI moderator probes follow up on specific moments participants flag during the recording
Digital financial research
Screen rec
Participants record how they actually use banking apps and financial websites - revealing friction the brand never intended to create.
Multi-day
Financial decisions rarely happen in a single session. Multi-day diaries track the full consideration journey - from initial trigger to final commitment.
Any device
Research happens where financial decisions happen - on a smartphone during a commute, on a laptop at the kitchen table, on a tablet on the sofa.
Platform capabilities

Tools that financial services
research teams rely on

Security and depth in equal measure - the platform capabilities that matter most when the topic is money.

ISO 27001 & GDPR Compliance

Certified information security management. Sensitive financial data and participant information is handled to the standard regulated sectors require.

Private Journal Activities

Participant responses visible only to the research team - not to other participants. Ideal for sensitive financial topics where social positioning is a concern.

Screen Recording

Capture how participants navigate banking apps, comparison sites, and financial application journeys - with verbal narration, on their own device.

Multi-Day Diary Studies

Track financial decision journeys as they unfold - from initial trigger through consideration to final commitment. No recall bias.

Deliberative Research Support

Multi-stage communities that expose participants to information and track how attitudes evolve - ideal for FCA consumer duty and financial behaviour research.

Maizy Chat

Query the full participant dataset at any point - "What concerns are participants raising about charges transparency?" - answered conversationally in seconds.

"It isn't about features - Qualzy will continue to succeed because they are good, honest people. I honestly feel that they care."

Pam Goldfarb Liss, President - LitBrains

Financial services research is uniquely dependent on participant honesty - and honesty in a group setting is structurally compromised by social dynamics. Qualzy's private, async format is purpose-built for topics where what people say in a group room bears little resemblance to how they actually think and behave.

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