A New Vision for Serving America’s Small Businesses
This paper examines the connections, similarities, and differences between consumer financial health and the financial health of small businesses.
Employee Financial Health
This paper addresses how employers can develop robust employee financial health strategies. By supporting the financial well-being of their workers, employers have the ability to promote staff engagement, improve productivity, and strengthen their brand reputation.
Financial Health and Community College Students
Understanding the three prominent financial health challenges that community college students face and how those students can improve their financial health through choosing and using quality products and services.
Global Financial Health Framework
This paper expands upon the Financial Health Network’s initial financial health research and applies it to a global setting.
2016 Financially Underserved Market Size Study
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.
Consumer Data Sharing Principles: A Framework for Industry-Wide Collaboration
Over the last two decades, the emergence of new intermediaries that aggregate data from numerous sources has enabled financial services providers of all kinds to provide consumers with a more complete view of their financial lives.
Financial Solutions Lab Snapshot: Innovations in Helping Consumers Weather Financial Shocks
Over the last year, more than 100 million American households experienced a financial shock. This year the Financial Solutions Lab’s second $3 million challenge was seeking solutions that could help Americans to weather such shocks.
Secured Credit Cards: Innovating at the Intersection of Savings and Credit
This paper takes an in-depth look at new consumer research on secured credit cards. In it, we explore how innovation in secured credit cards can help consumers build credit and savings at the same time.
Eight Ways to Measure Financial Health
This paper takes a closer look at the eight indicators we’ve identified and ways that providers can help.
Executive Summary: Eight Ways to Measure Financial Health
The Financial Health Network has developed eight indicators to measure financial health. We believe that these indicators establish a framework for shifting the financial services industry towards a focus on financial health, a focus on improving consumers’ lives.
2016 Prepaid Industry Scorecard
With millions depending on prepaid cards to help manage their financial lives and forthcoming CFPB regulations, it is important to gauge the quality of products in the marketplace and to encourage prepaid card issuers to develop offerings that actively improve consumers’ financial health.
Competing on Financial Health: How Credit Unions can Win the Gen Y Market
Despite strong member satisfaction and negative consumer sentiment towards banks, credit unions’ market share of key profit drivers like mortgages and credit cards is in the single digits.