Good Jobs Matter: Improving Job Quality for Low-Income Workers
While employee benefits are clearly important for financial health, they are the job quality dimension rated lowest among low-income workers. In order to improve employee financial health, employers should invest in benefits that support worker financial well-being.
The Fintech Effect: Consumer Impact and the Future of Finance
In this research, Plaid examines how consumers use fintech, how they feel about it, how it impacts their lives, and how all these sentiments vary across demographic groups.
Consumer Financial Data: Legal and Regulatory Landscape
Explore the federal framework governing consumer financial data in the United States and learn the critical questions arising from our changing financial data ecosystem.
It’s the Organizational Siloes, Not Just the IT Stacks, that Are Sidelining Innovation
Since consumers clearly want the personal finance tools developed by fintechs and other innovators, why are banks and credit unions not offering them widely? The core challenge is to get fintech apps to talk with banks’ existing technology stacks and build a shared business case across the organization.
Building Valuable Customer Relationships Through Financial Health
While the vast majority of customers expect their primary financial institutions (PFIs) to help improve their financial health, few believe their PFIs are actually doing it.
Eviction Prevention: Tips for Effective Resident Engagement
Provided by NeighborWorks America, this research examines the most common reasons for loss of rental housing and identifies which resources vulnerable renters need to achieve housing stability.
Balancing Today, Building Tomorrow: How Financially Coping Americans Plan, Save, and Invest
Even before COVID-19, millions of Americans were struggling financially, with more than half the population classified as Financially Coping. As job losses mount, savings are spent down, household debt grows, and investments shrink during the pandemic, Americans need financial support more than ever. This new research sheds light on how providers can support the saving and investing behaviors of Financially Coping consumers, ultimately improving both their immediate and long-term financial health.
Simplifying Savings: Using KPIs to Track Financial Health for Credit Union Members
The Financial Health Network worked with Community First Credit Union to analyze its Save My Change Program, a round-up savings tool, revealing the benefit to member financial health.
Policy Perspective: Supporting Consumers in a Financial Health Crisis
Author: Dan Murphy One striking feature of the Covid-19 economic crisis is just how different it is from our most recent financial crisis. While the subprime mortgage crisis began with an immediate shock to financial markets, the economic crisis brought about by this pandemic began with an immediate shock to public health that quickly impacted…
Member-Exclusive Webinar: Financial Health and COVID-19: New Insights from the U.S. Financial Health Pulse
This Member-exclusive webinar examined new data from the 2020 U.S. Financial Health Pulse and highlighted how Members are helping their customers, employees, and communities weather the crisis.
Webinar: Fintech for the 50+: How to Design for Low-to Moderate-Income Older Adults
Older generations face the greatest health risks from COVID-19 and are also challenged to conduct financial management without access to in-person financial services like banking.
Speaking Out About Racial Discrimination: A Letter To Our Staff
This blog by Jennifer Tescher was shared with the Financial Health Network staff in the wake of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and the protests and civil unrest that have followed: Putting emotions into words is hard right now.