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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

Communication cards help banking customers access services or report scams

The ‘speak easy’ cards were launched in 2024, having been developed by Nationwide staff and people with lived experience of communication difficulties (Fiona Hanson/PA Archive) - (PA Archive)

Cards which enable people to communicate their needs in Nationwide Building Society branches are being made available more widely to financial services providers across the UK.

Launched in 2024, the “speak easy” cards were developed by Nationwide staff and people with lived experience of communication difficulties, to enable customers to communicate their needs in branch quickly and during face-to-face interactions and support independence and accessibility.

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