The Financial Health Network Comment Letter on CFPB’s Prepaid Card Regulation
The Financial Health Network is submitting this letter in response to the request for comment by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on May 24, 2012.
Reaching Underbanked Consumers Through Mobile Services
Underbanked consumers need minute-to-minute information about their finances, and mobile financial services (MFS) are well suited to deliver it.
Prepaid Cards and Consumer Protections
Millions of underbanked Americans have found prepaid cards an effective way to meet their basic financial services needs.
Financial First Encounters: An Examination of the Fractured Financial Landscape Facing Youth Today
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.
Secure Future for Secured Cards
Read findings from the Center for Financial Services Innovation's (CFSI) study into consumer needs, behaviors, and perceptions around secured credit card products.
The Impact of Innovation – CBA Learning Brief
A credit score affects virtually every aspect of a person’s financial life—from buying a home or starting a business to the interest rate on credit cards.
The Financial Health Network Underbanked Consumer Study Fact Sheet
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."
A Fundamental Need: Small-Dollar, Short-Term Credit
Learn how the increased scrutiny recently placed on the payday loan industry has underscored the need for innovation and motivated financial services providers to develop solutions.