Global Financial Health Framework
This paper expands upon the Financial Health Network’s initial financial health research and applies it to a global setting.
The Financial Health Network Comment Letter to the CFPB Regarding Consumer Access to Financial Records
The Financial Health Network submitted its response to the CFPB’s Request for Information Regarding Consumer Access to Financial Records. In the letter, the Financial Health Network describes how companies should design data-sharing partnerships to support consumer choice and innovation. The letter also urges the CFPB to support the industry’s efforts to develop solutions by affirming consumers’ right to access their financial data through principles-based guidance.
Hidden in Plain Sight: How Secured Credit Cards Can Build Credit and Engage New Customers
This executive summary examines new consumer research on secured credit cards.
Eight Ways to Measure Financial Health
This paper takes a closer look at the eight indicators we’ve identified and ways that providers can help.
Executive Summary: Eight Ways to Measure Financial Health
The Financial Health Network has developed eight indicators to measure financial health. We believe that these indicators establish a framework for shifting the financial services industry towards a focus on financial health, a focus on improving consumers’ lives.
“Just Right” Small-Dollar Credit Products by Center for Community Self-Help
Center for Community Self-Help’s (Self-Help) “Just Right” line of small-dollar credit (SDC) products was designed to test features of SDC products offered to clients as affordable and safe credit options.
Member Summit Spring 2015 Presentation
Infographic: Improving the Financial Capability of Goodwill Employees
Learn how Goodwill created a mutually beneficial situation for the organization and its employees by offering payroll cards with features to help employees spend, save, and budget.
The Compass Guide to Payroll Cards
The Compass Guide to Payroll Cards defines industry-wide best practices for the design and delivery of payroll cards.
Design Matters – Learning from Consumers Experiences with Small-Dollar Loans
Reliable access to high-quality small-dollar credit (SDC) is vital to the financial success of millions of U.S consumers.
U.S. Financial Diaries – Spikes and Dips: How Income Uncertainty Affects Households
When asked whether “financial stability” or “moving up the income ladder” is more important, 77% of the participants in the U.S. Financial Diaries (USFD) research study chose “financial stability.”
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.