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Attune helps organizations optimize for financial health quickly and easily through data measurement and analytics. In a special video spotlight, learn about our new powerful digital insights platform, developed by a world-class advisory council and backed by years of research from the Financial Health Network.
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The Case for a Place-Based Approach to Financial Health
By Necati Celik Associate, Financial Health Network Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other. Yi Fu Tuan, 2001: 3 There’s no place like home. Due to the pandemic, home has now become both the workplace and the playground for many of us. But what is…
Measuring Financial Health in the Middle of a Pandemic
To measure the financial health of customers amid the economic devastation of COVID-19, organizations can leverage their own existing data and evaluate the rate of change in these metrics over time.
How to Manage Money in a Pandemic: A Behavioral Research-Based Approach
We have compiled behavioral science research on financial decisions to understand the challenges people may be facing and share our tips for how to spend savings and rework bills and debt to support financial health in a pandemic.
Old Tricks, New Hat — Helping Americans Save in New Places
By Tanya Ladha, Senior Director at Financial Health Network Saving money is hard. So hard, in fact, that experts and academics have spent decades studying human behavior in an effort to make it easier for us, designing tricks and hacks that help us save — automating savings (think 401k retirement plans, created for us to set-it-and-forget-it), turning…
Etsy Gets Creative: Helping Sellers Build Emergency Savings
By Chandni Ohri, Director, Financial Health Network In October 2019, Etsy signed on to BlackRock’s Emergency Savings Initiative as one of the inaugural partners because they recognize the challenge and importance of emergency savings for their sellers. Emergency savings is one of the building blocks to improving financial health. In fact, the recent U.S. Financial…
A Sharing of Ideas: How cross-country exchanges can foster innovation
Recently, Financial Health Network and MetLife Foundation hosted five social entrepreneurs from South Korea to exchange ideas and learnings with U.S. nonprofits, social enterprises, impact investors and financial health fintech companies. There were three main themes that made an impact on the South Korean social entrepreneurs.
Comment Letter on Credit Scoring
The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) shares its perspective on how the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) can ensure that the Enterprises’ standards and processes can benefit consumers' financial health.
3 Factors that Shape Financial Health in America
By Thea Garon Director, Financial Health Network Despite a surging stock market and record-low unemployment, millions of Americans are struggling financially. Nearly half of Americans (47%) say their spending equaled or exceeded their income in the last year. One in three people (30%) say they have more debt than is manageable. More than a third…
FinHealth Score® Toolkit
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2017 Financially Underserved Market Size Study
The Financial Health Network presents our 2017 Financially Underserved Market Size Study that illustrates the growing opportunity to address the needs of financially underserved consumers and identifies significant trends driving marketplace evolution and growth.
Driving for Broke: The Underserved Insurance and Auto Loan Opportunity
In the United States, there are approximately 198 million insured vehicles on the road today. Among those, approximately 53 million vehicles are insured by low- to moderate-income (LMI) — often known as underserved — consumers.
A Snapshot of Quality and Innovation Among Small-Dollar Credit Installment Lenders
Millions of Americans lack access to high-quality, affordable credit. While innovating in the small-dollar credit industry poses challenges, the opportunity to serve borrowers in need of high-quality, small-dollar loans is significant.
Infographic: Opportunity Fund, Start2Save, and the Journey of Product Development
Learn about the different phases of Start2Save, Opportunity Fund's savings program, which has provided $83 million in microloans and microsavings for clients in need since 1994.
Redstone Federal Credit Union: Thinking Outside the Branch
In 2009, Peter Alvarez of Redstone Federal Credit Union attended his first Underbanked Financial Services Forum, an annual conference held by the Financial Health Network and SourceMedia, to learn more about the underserved market.
Annual Report 2012
For eight years, the Financial Health Network has championed innovative strategies for meeting the needs of underbanked consumers
Infographic: How And Why Short-Term Savings Matter
From the U.S. Financial Diaries: Learn how and why short-term savings matter, especially for people in the United States who are earning unsteady incomes and facing unforeseen financial challenges.
Piggymojo: The Thrill of Impulse Savings
Armed with a Financial Capability Innovation Fund grant from the Financial Health Network, Piggymojo is transforming the way people think about savings.
Preferences and Usage of Financial Services Providers inBrief
This the Financial Health Network inBrief provides some insights on underbanked consumers’ preferences and usage regarding financial service providers. The information is drawn from the 2008 the Financial Health Network Underbanked Consumer Stud.
Highlights from the Inaugural Underbanked Financial Services Forum
This event underscored the business opportunities inherent in serving the underbanked market and identified opportunities to help move consumers along a pathway to savings.