Solutions

Unlocking the power of financial data to deliver actionable insights and drive impactful research that helps build a stronger economy and more equitable society.

Enabling research

We provide socioeconomic researchers with access to research-ready, curated datasets and de-identified, granular, near real-time private sector financial data, securely housed in our Trusted Research Environment (TRE).

Our data helps academic researchers address complex issues, including the root causes of poverty and inequality, by delivering data-driven insights that advance understanding and inform actionable solutions. Through collaborative partnerships, we empower academics to produce impactful research that drives meaningful, real-world change.

Research

Actionable insights

We offer real-time financial data insights designed to enhance policy and intervention decisions, helping to reduce poverty, address inequality, and improve economic wellbeing. These insights can complement existing data sources or be integrated alongside them for a more comprehensive view.

Available in various formats - including dashboards, analytics, reports, and APIs - our insights uncover disparities and inform the development and delivery of effective services. By empowering decision-makers, we help tackle complex socioeconomic challenges with greater precision and impact.

Insights

Become a data partner

By contributing to this research and insights ecosystem, data partners are actively addressing societal challenges and helping to inform research and policy interventions which can reduce poverty and inequality and promote economic wellbeing.

Data partnerships

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Exploring Regional Differences in Scotland's Economic Wellbeing

35% of Scottish people have low emergency resilience.
InsightsEconomic WellbeingIncome VolatilityCost of Living Crisis
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Closing the Affordability Gap: An Archetype-Led Pathway to Retrofit Delivery

The study grouped homes based on their construction and age, and then estimated energy savings and retrofit costs for different levels of retrofitting
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A map of the UK overlayed on a graph going up a down
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Insights from September’s Economic Nowcast

Incomes shrink by 1.53%, and an extra 50,000 people are now struggling to make ends meet.
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