On October 12-14, 2022, Innovations for Poverty Action and the Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL) at Northwestern University hosted the 2022 Annual Researcher Gathering. This was an invitation-only event.

Financial service providers and government regulators have a unique opportunity to monitor consumer protection risks like multiple borrowing and late repayment: these institutions have access to rich data on consumers’ financial records.But how can we go from collecting data to actually protecting consumers? In this webinar, Daniel Putman (IPA) introduced a practical toolkit for using this data for digital credit market monitoring.Drawing on examples from a collaboration with the Competition Authority of Kenya, the toolkit covers the nuts and bolts of leveraging this data—from requesting data to analysis and interpretation of outcomes.