Summary
The study is focused on digital illegal lending which acts as a major vector for financial and data crime globally and is closely associated with criminal enterprise. The project employs innovative analytical techniques and integrates credit reference data, geo-demographic data, survey data, public records, economic data and information on legal frameworks for consumer credit regulation to arrive at an authoritative picture of the scale and dynamics of illegal lending and financial crime in the US and Japan and how different regulatory approaches can either facilitate or minimise these twin scourges of consumers' digital and financial lives.
The outcomes of...