This paper examines four key trends and explores how real-life companies are leveraging Big Data in financial services.

The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) has identified additional opportunities to improve consumers' financial health in areas including affordable housing, community college, and healthcare.

The Financial Health Network believes that access to high-quality financial services is necessary for consumers’ financial health.

The Compass Principles are guidelines for the U.S. financial services industry. They affirm standards of excellence in the design and delivery of basic tools that people use to manage their daily financial lives.

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.

An increasing number of Americans are turning to nontraditional credit sources for quick access to cash.

The United States financially underserved market generated $89 billion in fees and interest in 2012, representing growth of 8% from $82 billion in 2011.

For eight years, the Financial Health Network has championed innovative strategies for meeting the needs of underbanked consumers

Based in San Francisco, Mission Asset Fund (MAF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping low-income, financially excluded consumers enter the mainstream financial system.