Blind Spots in the Code: Centering Financial Health in AI’s Next Chapter
AI is already transforming money management, but we have work to do to ensure it truly supports people’s financial decision-making and advances their financial health.
Building with Wisdom: Why Centering Black Elders Is Key to Financial Innovation
In an exclusive post-EMERGE Q&A, Raymond A. Jetson of Aging While Black shares how honoring Black elders can transform financial futures across America.
Uncertainty, Trust, Resilience, Freedom: 4 Words for the Present and Future of Financial Health
Following his first EMERGE experience, Taylor C. Nelms – Vice President of Research & Insights at the Financial Health Network – reflects on the stories and themes that stood out most.
From Voices to Action: 3 Takeaways From EMERGE 2025
This year’s EMERGE centered voices impacted by today’s cultural and economic shifts, informing our path toward a better financial future for all.
Unpacking the American Dream: A Q&A with Jennifer Tescher
The American Dream is evolving, and financial wellness is at its core, asserts Jennifer Tescher, founder and CEO of the Financial Health Network.
Small Change, Big Impact: Your 3-Step FinHealth Action Plan for 2025
On the final day of this year’s flagship EMERGE conference, Members shared the concrete steps they’re taking to improve the financial health of their customers, workers, and communities.
Voices of Change: Get Inspired by 7 Past EMERGE Speakers
As the countdown to this year’s EMERGE begins, we’re shining a spotlight on seven unforgettable speakers from past events who continue to spark change.
Why Every Team Needs a Financial Health Pro (Including Yours)
This month, we're celebrating Financial Capability Month by highlighting how dedicated financial health roles – and a clear framework like the FinHealth Maturity Assessment Program (MAP) – help organizations build stronger infrastructure, deliver real impact, and create lasting financial health for both employees and customers.
Building a Better Future: How Clear Standards Unlock Financial Health for All
This month, we’re celebrating Financial Capability Month by highlighting how a set of financial health standards will provide essential resources for financial institutions and employers in their work to drive financial health impact for their customers and employees.
When the Next Storm Comes, Will Families Be Financially Ready?
Extreme weather events and a changing climate are taking a toll on household finances, disproportionately impacting vulnerable communities. Learn how innovative financial tools and cross-sector collaboration can strengthen resilience.
The Overdraft Fee Reality: Why We Need Standards to Support Consumer Financial Health
Without industry-wide standards, financial institutions struggle to provide consistent, consumer-friendly solutions to overdraft solutions. Learn how financial health standards can boost transparency, spark innovation, and improve outcomes for everyone.
Patelco’s Erin Mendez: How Shifting Company Culture Drives Financial Health
How does a credit union's culture help to shape financial health for its members? Erin Mendez, President and CEO of Patelco Credit Union gives a firsthand look at how she's building a financial health-focused organization one team member at a time.
Breaking New Ground: Visionary Women Advancing Financial Health for All
We’re celebrating Women's History Month by honoring three trailblazing women instrumental in advancing the financial health movement over the past two decades – and they’re not done yet.
Santander: Expanding FinHealth Through Business Resource Groups
Are business resource groups the key to advancing employee finhealth? Howard Goode of Santander shares their success story.
Q&A with Sarah Gordon: Stepping Into A New Role as President of the Financial Health Network
After 17 years at the Financial Health Network, Sarah Gordon brings deep strategic and operational expertise to her new role.
Black History Month Q&A: TransUnion’s Tracie Anderson on Financial Health
TransUnion Principal, Economic Inclusion Strategy for U.S. Markets Tracie Anderson has spent her career breaking barriers to financial health for marginalized communities. In this special Black History Month Q&A, she shares what she’s learned – and the interventions she sees as critical to advancing financial inclusion today.
Breaking Barriers: Pathways to Financial Empowerment in Black Communities
Illuminating systemic financial challenges and pathways to economic empowerment for Black communities.
Just for Members: Help Shape The First FinHealth Industry Standards
Join with fellow Members to help shape the first-ever financial health standards for the financial services industry, launching in 2025. Designed to improve financial health outcomes, these evidence-based standards will guide organizations in creating impactful, customer-centered solutions.
Building Financial Health Through Behavioral Design
The Financial Health Network’s Financial Health Pulse® survey has consistently found that between 66% and 72% of households in the U.S. are not Financially Healthy, signaling a continued need for financial institutions to offer solutions that advance the financial health of those they serve.
Goodbye to Latte Lectures: How GenAI Could Be Transformative for Financial Health
Instead of dispensing outdated advice, it’s time to harness the transformative potential of GenAI for consumer financial health.
Measuring What Matters: Banks and Consumer Financial Health
The Treasury and OCC are encouraging banks to monitor and improve financial health. Now we need standards to ensure banks use this data effectively.
How Can We Get Financial Relief To Families When It Counts?
Organizations discuss how they’re working to transform support systems and make a real difference for people in crisis.
How Could the CFPB’s Final Open Banking Rule Impact Financial Health?
The CFPB’s new Open Banking Rule could deeply benefit consumer financial health if it addresses four key questions.
From Information to Impact: How Education Can Help Advance Financial Health
A conversation with EVERFI from Blackbaud and VyStar Credit Union reveals the importance of measuring consumer financial health and personalized financial education.
How Can Employers Help Increase Access to Affordable Housing?
Three takeaways from our recent Member-exclusive Executive Roundtable on how organizations can help employees access affordable housing.
Lessons From FinX: The Challenges of Financially Vulnerable Consumers
The lessons learned and insights gained from FinX, a unique workshop that illuminates the challenges faced by financially vulnerable consumers.
Charting the Course for the Future of Consumer and Worker Financial Health
As we mark 20 years of the financial health movement, it is energizing to consider the immense advancements we’ve made in partnership with so many of you. In that time, more than 170 organizations have answered our call to measure the financial health of their customers, employees, and communities.
Rewiring FinHealth: 3 Takeaways From EMERGE 2024
Our 20th anniversary celebration brought together hundreds of leaders to reflect on our successes and chart a bold course for the future.
What the Climate Crisis Means for Financial Health
With the increasing cost of climate change and its long-term ramifications on financial health, the Financial Health Network recognizes this urgent issue and is taking action.
Increasing Fund Access for Disaster Recovery: Q&A With iink Payments
With increasing natural disasters, finhealth-focused fintech makes it faster to access financial relief.
Exploring the Interconnectedness of Financial and Mental Health
Our recent Member-exclusive Executive Roundtable shared several ways organizations can support people’s financial and mental well-being.
Alumni Spotlight: Building Better Communities
These Financial Health Network alumni are now focused on solutions that help small businesses and communities thrive.
Protecting Americans’ Financial Health in the Face of Climate Change
Our recent Member-exclusive Executive Roundtable surfaced three opportunities for organizations to help people weather the financial impact of natural disasters.
Alumni Spotlight: Championing Financial Health Across Sectors
Meet two Financial Health Network alumni who have gone on to new industries to influence financial lives at scale.
Visionary Spotlight: Reflections from UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate Queen Máxima
Our 2021 Financial Health Visionary Award honoree shares why she’s committed to financial health and key opportunities for the movement in its next chapter.
Alumni Spotlight: Celebrating the Women Shaping Financial Health
In honor of Women’s History Month and 20 years of financial health, we’re highlighting two women who have been a critical part of our journey and progress.
To the Women Who Came Before Me, and Those on Their Way
A personal reflection from our Senior Director, Workplace and Financial Health Equity, on the financial barriers women have endured across generations and how to break the cycle.
These Black Founders Are Paving the Way Toward Equity in Financial Health
In honor of Black History Month, we’re spotlighting three Black founders and FSL alumni who are on the forefront of racial equity in financial health.
Global Financial Health Launch Decision: Send ’Em!
The demand for a global financial health platform that supports meaningful business investment is there. We just need the collaboration to make it happen.
Nonprofits and Fintechs Improving Benefits Access: Our 2022 Exchange Grantees
The Financial Solutions Lab has awarded grants to three partnerships that make up our 2022 Exchange cohort. The nonprofit and fintech organizations in the cohort will work to promote financial health by improving access to benefits and measuring the impact of their projects on the consumers they serve.
When to Use Survey and Administrative Data for Financial Health Measurement: Lessons from the Financial Health Pulse
Combining survey and administrative data can offer more nuanced insights for financial institutions on customer needs and potential solutions.
Medical Debt Is Hurting Your Employees – Here’s How To Help
As the debt crisis deepens, investing in the financial health of their workforces can yield big benefits for both employers and employees.
Improving Benefits Systems With Nonprofit-Fintech Partnerships: 2022 Exchange Challenge
The 2022 Exchange Challenge focuses on nonprofit-fintech partnerships that can advance financial health for people navigating benefits systems.
Better Together: Meeting the Needs of Consumers of Color Through Partnerships
Change Machine and NALCAB share some key takeaways for nonprofit practitioners and fintech providers who are committed to reducing the digital divide.
ID Access for Returning Citizens: Learnings from the Field
Access to mainstream financial services, like a bank account, is critical to financial health and provides people with a safe way to store money, transact, pay bills, and build savings. But, being “banked” remains a financial health challenge for many. In 2019, according to the FDIC, more than 5% of U.S. households – 7 million […]
To Address the Financial Health Gender Gap, Let’s Fix the Care Economy
New survey data finds lack of affordable, reliable childcare holds women back from working.
Hear the Primal Scream of Workers: ESG and HCM Aren’t Enough
It’s time for employers to make environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and human capital management (HCM) projects tangible to workers, and to use these programs to address the real human needs in their workforce.
Catalyzing Private Sector Action To Advance Global Financial Health in 2022
Financial Health Network, Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, and Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth launch a new global study to catalyze private sector action to improve financial health.
From Theory to Practice: 5 Tactics for Savings Engagement
Americans are facing inflation, ongoing pandemic-related disruptions, and limited government support. Here are five ways employers can help them save. Presented by: BlackRock's Emergency Savings Initiative
Financial Health Research: Expanding Our DEI Lens
As part of our DEI commitment, the Financial Health Network is updating our survey questions and analysis around ethnicity, gender, LGBTQIA+ status, and ability.