<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-07-08T08:44:08Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/EA796535-EAC9-49B9-808B-00962F386852" ns1:id="EA796535-EAC9-49B9-808B-00962F386852"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/FF6C132E-95BD-4F4F-9700-65277D6722A2" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/A6E4920E-2BFF-470D-96EC-6552576D3B06" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/A6E4920E-2BFF-470D-96EC-6552576D3B06" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2024-09-29T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/004EE5F2-AF78-4C31-BAF9-F506F9945DC5" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2023-03-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10052433</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>“TrustScore” fintech machine-learning: growing the UK economy from enabling underserved communities to access mainstream financial services by building a credit-file through their established practice of saving clubs</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Exclusion from financial-services blights the lives of millions in the UK. It damages the UK economy: creating financial-insecurity, stunting entrepreneurism, increasing unemployment, social security and healthcare costs.

Lack of a credit-rating is a key barrier to financial-inclusion. Overcoming this problem would help users to access lower-cost, more affordable, loans and other financial services. TrustScore provides an opportunity to address this through recording users' trustworthiness, reflected in their participation in saving-circles.

TrustScore's benefits are for all UK users of saving-circles.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>