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CBA launches customer advocate function

by James Mitchell8 minute read
The Adviser

As part of a move to implement the banking industry initiatives package announced by the Australian Bankers’ Association in April 2016, the Commonwealth Bank is introducing a customer advocate function.

The new function will be headed by CBA's executive general manager for customer advocacy and remediation, Brendan French (who prior to taking on that role ran the bank's Open Advice Review program). The function has three key areas of focus: driving fair customer outcomes; looking for potential customer concerns and proactively removing or minimising their effects; and remediation.

CBA group executive for marketing and strategy, Vittoria Shortt, to whom Mr French will report, said the new function will work with government, industry, customer groups and internally to improve customer experience.

“This function will ensure we have an even stronger focus on the entire customer experience; it will improve accountability in decision making and ensure that the balance between customer outcomes and business outcomes is fair,” Ms Shortt said.

The initiative is intended, over time, to “improve products, processes, systems and decision making” as they relate to customers and ensure outcomes are “consistently fair”.

“We know that many of the most important decisions our customers can make are made in partnership with us – buying a house, insuring their lives and protecting their family – and we take that responsibility seriously,” Ms Shortt said.

[Related: Third-party a 'critical channel' for home loans, says CBA]

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James Mitchell

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James Mitchell has over eight years’ experience as a financial reporter and is the editor of Wealth and Wellness at Momentum Media.

He has a sound pedigree to cover the business of mortgages and the converging financial services sector having reported for leading finance titles InvestorDaily, InvestorWeekly, Accountants Daily, ifa, Mortgage Business, Residential Property Manager, Real Estate Business, SMSF Adviser, Smart Property Investment, and The Adviser.

He has also been published in The Daily Telegraph and contributed online to FST Media and Mergermarket, part of the Financial Times Group.

James holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and an MA in Journalism.

 

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