Nikki Bond

Head of Gambling Harms Action Lab

Nikki Bond leads the Gambling Harms Action Lab at the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. She heads our work with financial services and the wider sector to tackle gambling-related financial harms. From May 2023 to April 2024, she was Interim Head of Research and Policy. Prior to this, Nikki worked as a Research Officer leading our work to tackle mental health problems and financial difficulties in the debt advice sector, health services and the benefits system. Before joining Money and Mental Health in 2017, she worked in both financial and social care services, supporting people from marginalised groups. (she/her)

Policy notes and publications

• Banks’ role in suicide prevention February 5, 2026 - How financial services should support customers who may be at risk of suicidality.
• First line of defence December 10, 2025 - How banks can use transaction data to support customers at risk of experiencing gambling harm.
• Shining a light November 5, 2024 - Exploring the role of financial services in tackling gambling harms.
• Access to debt advice April 2, 2024 - The needs of people with serious mental health problems.

• Money and Mental Health and the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s joint submission to the Department for Health and Social Care’s major conditions strategy: call for evidence June 26, 2023 - Joint views on how the DHSC and wider government departments can better support people with mental ill health by addressing the financial circumstances that can exacerbate people's existing mental health problems.
• Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Money and Pensions Service’s Request for Information on Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space April 12, 2023 - Money and Mental Health's view on proposals for expanding the Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space service.
• Money and Mental Health submission to the Money and Pensions Service’s call for evidence on debt advice clients with deficit budgets December 1, 2022 - Money and Mental Health submission to the Money and Pensions Service’s call for evidence on […]
• Money and Mental Health’s submission to HM Treasury’s Statutory Debt Repayment Plan Consultation July 29, 2022

Recent blogs

• Three ways firms can improve the Bank Gambling Block and other bank gambling support tools August 13, 2025
• Learning from the Vulnerability Guidance Review: How firms can step up their support for customers experiencing gambling harms March 20, 2025
• Protecting customers from gambling with borrowed funds January 30, 2025
• Launching our new Gambling Harms Action Lab for financial services July 23, 2024