Financial Wellness for Employees: Insights from Five Fintechs
Employer-channel fintechs play an increasingly crucial role in supporting employees’ financial health through products like low-cost loans, and financial coaching. The Financial Solutions Lab partnered with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis to examine the uptake, usage, and impact of five companies: Brightside, HoneyBee, Manifest, MedPut, and Onward.
What We Know to Be True: Making Informed Benefits Decisions in Uncertain Times
During a pandemic, unexpected expenses or unplanned loss of income can have a devastating impact on a household’s day-to-day financial management. Employers have an opportunity to steward their resources more effectively into responsive and informed investments to aid employees’ long-term financial health.
Better for Employees, Better for Business: Providing the Tools to Meet the Financial Health Needs of Employees
Many employees are financially stressed and are looking to their employers for support. In this infographic, we focus on employees’ needs for financial guidance, emergency savings, and debt management benefits. By providing support in these areas, employers can distinguish themselves, improve worker engagement, and help employees to thrive.
Credit Union Spotlight: Measuring to Improve Member Financial Health
These case studies highlight our measurement of transactional indicators with three credit unions, enabling them to drive positive impact for their members and their businesses.
Consumer Financial Hardship Study
Provided by TransUnion, this research examines the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic, providing essential and timely insights into how consumers have fared.
Something Old, Something New
The features of the financial services landscape that have brought today’s consumers convenience, reduced friction, and easily accessed revolving credit have now been with us for so long that we view them as fixed infrastructure. These gains have been accompanied by a loss of some of the tools and habits of mind that helped the grandparents and great-grandparents of today’s Millennials make it through two world wars and the Great Depression.
Webinar: What Your Customers Actually Want: Customer Satisfaction and Financial Health
The last in a three-part series, this conversation explored the connections between financial health and metrics that define what it means to be competitive in the financial services ecosystem.
2018 Member Summit Resources
Resources and presentations from the 2018 Member Summit, October 4-5, 2018 in Chicago, IL.
Liability, Transparency and Consumer Control in Data Sharing
With industry leadership and regulatory support, there is an opportunity to build a liability framework for financial data sharing to support consumer protection, innovation and market growth.
Secured Credit Cards: Establishing a Path for New Immigrants
Secured credit cards can be an effective way to build U.S. credit history and thereby access affordable credit products and fully benefit from inclusion in the U.S. financial system.
Global Financial Health Framework
This paper expands upon the Financial Health Network’s initial financial health research and applies it to a global setting.