What’s measured is what matters. To support innovative providers that value consumer financial health, the Financial Health Network has identified eight key indicators.

In 2010, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) launched its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Credit Builder program with the primary goal to establish or improve credit for low-income Latino immigrants and help them responsibly manage credit over the long term.

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.

Over 100 million Americans encounter difficulty managing their household cashflow. This infographic illustrates some of the challenges these households face and describes how the Financial Solutions Lab can help to improve their financial health.

More than half of Americans in the tenuous segment live paycheck to paycheck (53%) and struggle to keep up with bills and credit payments.

To be truly groundbreaking, financial services companies must go further than delighting their customers with convenient, beautifully designed products and services.

Despite their gradual decline in use, checks remain prevalent, accounting for 33% of non-cash payments in the United States by face value.

The underserved represent a vast opportunity for financial services providers to meet consumer demand for high-quality products that support financial health.

As developing technology and new regulations continue to spark competition and transform the marketplace, deep consumer knowledge remains the key to success for businesses across the sector.

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.

Millions of underbanked Americans have found prepaid cards an effective way to meet their basic financial services needs.

The Financial Health Network led a consumer research study on secured card products, conducted with MasterCard and Blue Flame Consulting.

Young adults entering the work force and managing wages for the first time today face a financial services marketplace that is markedly more complex than the one their parents first encountered as young adults.

The Financial Health Network has conducted an investigation into the amounts that prepaid cardholders spend each month to conduct essential financial transactions, and compared that to the amounts that they would spend if they remained underbanked or used checking accounts for the majority of their transactions instead.

Gain insights from this third annual event, including the importance of building relationships, understanding the underbanked market, and increasing our conversations around saving.

This resource identifies market size data and preferences among eight unique segments of the underbanked market, including "The Strivers," "Middle of the Road," and "Almost There."

Discover how three nonprofit organizations are marketing and distributing prepaid debit cards to provide their community members with economical and convenient financial services.

Discover the potential of HR outsourcers, payroll companies, worksite marketing firms, and other intermediaries to provide distribution and marketing opportunities for financial services.