Explore financial data in practice: Watch the FINDS webinar

6 Apr 20265 min readby Kimberley Mitchell

The Financial Data Service (FINDS) provides secure access to de-identified financial data from millions of GB bank customers and thousands of UK SMEs, creating new opportunities to explore economic resilience, income volatility and regional economic change.

FINDS is part of the UKRI-funded Smart Data Research UK (SDR UK) programme and is delivered by Smart Data Foundry, supporting responsible access to financial data for research in the public interest.

Watch the webinar

This webinar showcases the datasets available through FINDS and demonstrates how financial behaviour data can complement traditional economic statistics to provide deeper insight into household finances and wider economic trends.

Get started with FINDS datasets

If you’re interested in exploring the data yourself, you can create a free account at myfoundry and browse available FINDS datasets.

Create a free account here

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