Financial Health Network research reveals that Americans spent $455 billion in financial services fees and interest in 2024 as credit costs, student loans, and deep inequities strain households.

Amidst a year of high interest rates and decelerating inflation, spending on financial services tops $400 billion for the first time.

What are Americans paying for financial services as the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? This year’s FinHealth Spend Report – our long-running national study on the costs of financial services to U.S. households – reveals that spending has soared in the past year amid a turbulent economy and persistent inflation.

This year’s annual FinHealth Spend Report examines how households in America managed their finances and accessed credit during the second year of the pandemic, analyzing year-over-year trends for more than two dozen financial products and services.

With this report – an evolution of our Financially Underserved Market Size Study – we shed light on how much households paid for a variety of everyday financial products and services in 2020, through lenses of financial health, income, race, and ethnicity.

Discover opportunities to develop innovative, high-quality solutions to improve financial health for financially underserved consumers in the United States.

The Financial Health Network presents our 2017 Financially Underserved Market Size Study that illustrates the growing opportunity to address the needs of financially underserved consumers and identifies significant trends driving marketplace evolution and growth.

The Financial Health Network and Core Innovation Capital present this 6th annual market analysis to illustrate the size of the opportunity to address the needs of financially underserved consumers and identify significant trends driving marketplace evolution and growth.

This report reveals that financially underserved American consumers spent $138 billion in fees and interest revenue in 2014, generated from a volume of $1.6 trillion in financial activity.

This report reveals that American consumers spent $103 billion in fees and interest revenue in 2013, generated from a volume of $1.3 trillion in financial activity.

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

Banks and credit unions can and should be doing much more to support consumer credit building – and, importantly, they can do so in ways that align their own success with the success of their customers.

The products and services that cater to the needs of financially underserved consumers are big business.