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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: Consumers and their credit data, with Kelli Fielding (TransUnion)
Description: I spent several years creating industry-level research for one of the big credit bureaus, first in Asia and then in Europe. During that time, one of my defining projects was a deep dive into the value generated by consumers monitoring their own credit reports. Prior to my study, I'd only seen this addressed as a single question: do consumers who monitor their own credit data regularly, see improving credit scores?But that’s not a specific enough question to understand the nuance… sure, if you were only going to pick one metric to track that would be the...