GoKawiilUK bank study analyzes 28 million customer records to map financial abuse patterns
Researchers received ethical approval from a major UK retail bank's privacy governance body in August 2024 to study transaction data from women customers, aiming to identify behavioral signatures of financial abuse. The study compared a victim-survivor group against a matched control group, using strict filtering criteria such as account type, age, and transaction frequency to build comparable samples from the bank's 28 million customers.