Our insight

We share our insight in a number of ways  through our annual publications, our newsletter Ombudsman News, our engagement with the regulator and other stakeholders, our regularly published data, on our social media channels and through blogs, reports and speeches. You can explore these blogs, reports and speeches below.

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Can small businesses use the Financial Ombudsman?

22 January 2024

You may be aware that the Financial Ombudsman Service resolves disputes between individual consumers and financial businesses. But did you know we can also consider complaints from small businesses and other small organisations?

Blog SME Jurisdiction

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Helping small businesses resolve complaints

12 January 2023

In our blog, we share some of the work of our small business team over the last three years. The team resolve complaints across a wide range of commercial products and services. We also outline some of the ways we share insight and engages with stakeholders.

Blog SME

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Blog: Helping small businesses with life-changing financial disputes

28 October 2020

Caroline Wayman, chief ombudsman and chief executive, explains why our experience of having resolved millions of complaints over the last 20 years means we’re well-placed to provide fair and impartial resolutions to what can often be critical financial disputes faced by small businesses.

SME Insights

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Blog: The impact of Covid-19 on financial service complaints and SMEs – what we've seen so far

30 September 2020

Richard Thompson, principal ombudsman and quality director, shares his thoughts on how Covid-19 has impacted small businesses and the type of complaints we're seeing, as well as how our service is playing its part in helping to resolve them. 

SME Insights

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Insight summary: complaints resulting from Covid-19 and the impact on consumers and SMEs

24 August 2020

Covid-19 has given rise to many new and complex questions of fairness. Since the early days of lockdown in March 2020, we’ve heard from consumers and SMEs about issues we couldn’t have anticipated before the pandemic.

SME Covid-19

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