As the hardreading staff noted yesterday, the Boston Globe has gotten mighty cozy with Rockland Trust, with the local bank essentially co-opting the paper’s Talking Points column in its Business section.
What we failed to note was the omission of said bank in this Talking Points item yesterday:
Mass. Banks Given Low Marks for Customer Service
The two largest retail banks in Massachusetts have some of the least satisfied customers, according to an annual survey of financial services firms.
Bank of America, the largest retail bank in Massachusetts, scored the equivalent of a D+, or a 68 on a 100-point scale of customer satisfaction, according to the survey by American Customer Satisfaction Index, LLC, a Michigan research firm. The survey asked 70,000 consumers about the quality of service at their banks, from whether tellers are helpful, interest rates are competitive, and websites and mobile applications are easy to navigate.
That’s below other major national banks, including Wells Fargo & Co. (with a top score of 75), Citigroup Inc. (73) and JP Morgan Chase & Co. (71).
Customers gave Providence-based Citizens Financial Group, Inc., the second-largest bank in Massachusetts by deposits, the equivalent of a C, with score of 70. It was the lowest among large regional banks, including Capital One Financial Corp. of Virginia (77) and TD Bank, NA of New Jersey(75).
That’s a lotta numbers from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, yeah?
But notably absent: Rockland Trust.
Consequently, we plugged Rockland Trust into the ACSI search box and came up empty.
So . . . huh.
P.S. Here’s how Rockland Trust sets the Agenda in today’s stately local broad$heet.
P.P.S. From our Bury the Lede desk
We’ve been totally remiss in failing to point this out from Sunday’s Globe:
That would be – yes! – Rockland Trust at No. 1. More, obviously, to come.
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