Chicago, IL, Oct. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on financial health, in partnership with Flourish Ventures, MetLife Foundation, and AARP, today released the U.S. Financial Health Pulse 2020 Trends Report, revealing an uneven impact to financial health over the last year. While the topline data shows 33% of people […]

By and large, Americans can find jobs today. But too often those jobs have wild swings in pay. A mechanic, for example, might earn $3,500 one month and then drop to around $1,000 the next, when customers don’t materialize. The working poor and, increasingly, the middle class are in a state of “persistent anxiety” about […]

“In the U.S. we don’t really have an access-to-banking problem,” says Jennifer Tescher, president of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, a nonprofit that aims to help the industry better serve low- and moderate-income consumers. After all, 93% of U.S. households have bank accounts, according to the latest Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data. “The bigger […]

As the data access debate rages on, Beth Brockland and Jennifer Tescher of the Financial Health Network explain we need a broader set of industry-wide standards and best practices if we are to arrive at solutions that support consumer choice and innovation. Read the full article here >>>

Chicago, IL – December 8, 2015 – Today, the Financial Health Network and Core Innovation Capital (Core) released their fifth annual Underserved Market Size Study. The report, which benefitted from the financial support and strategic input of Morgan Stanley and with additional financial support from the Financial Health Network’S Founding Partner the Ford Foundation, reveals […]