From the U.S. Financial Diaries: 83 Charts to Describe the Hidden Financial Lives of Working Americans.

U.S. Financial Diaries Case study: Lauren Walker, 29, is a single mother living with her four-year-old son Riley in a rented townhome in a small town in eastern Mississippi.

U.S. Financial Diaries: Rita Douglas, 62, lives in a two-bedroom apartment in a marginal, sometimes dangerous neighborhood near Cincinnati, OH.

U.S. Financial Diaries: Mike Smith, a single man in his mid-50s, lives in a two-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Kentucky, in a small town near the Ohio River.

This one-page document has examples of applying each of the four Compass Principles to savings products.

Underbanked consumers need minute-to-minute information about their finances, and mobile financial services (MFS) are well suited to deliver it.

As this year’s Forum made clear, the underbanked financial services industry is in a period of progress.

The recent financial crisis has revealed that Americans at all income levels exhibit difficulty in managing their finances and are ill-prepared to weather economic stresses.

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.

Learn key findings about retail locations in which consumers can access financial services, including the impact of ATMs, point of sale and kiosk technology, and reloadable stored value cards.