Something Old, Something New
The features of the financial services landscape that have brought today’s consumers convenience, reduced friction, and easily accessed revolving credit have now been with us for so long that we view them as fixed infrastructure. These gains have been accompanied by a loss of some of the tools and habits of mind that helped the grandparents and great-grandparents of today’s Millennials make it through two world wars and the Great Depression.
Cross-Sector Solutions: A Guide to Nonprofit-Fintech Partnerships
Learn best practices and real-life success stories from the Financial Health Network’s Nonprofit-Fintech Exchange, a marketplace for exploring collaboration and sharing insights on building high-impact partnerships.
Webinar: A Roadmap for Partnerships and Profitability
This webinar recording explores the business case of proven strategies providers can use to build financial health and how implementing these interventions may impact a provider’s profitability and business performance.
Financial Health Network Extends Reach to Workplace Sector at EMERGE
Our research shows that employees are struggling financially and are looking to their employers for solutions. The EMERGE workshop represented a doubling-down on our commitment to working with employers, payroll and benefits providers, workers’ representatives, thought leaders, and policymakers to solve employees’ financial challenges.
Gap Between Financial Industry’s Intentions and Actions for Improving Customer Financial Health
New the Financial Health Network Survey Identifies Significant Gap Between Financial Industry’s Intentions and Actions for Improving Customer Financial Health Execs see loyalty, revenue, and competitive differentiation advantages with financial health initiatives, but many remain on the sidelines CHICAGO – April 29, 2019 – The recent U.S. Financial Health Pulse report revealed that only 28 […]
Case Study: Developing a Survey to Track Financial Health for Global Customers
Financial Health Network Consulting Services worked with Discover to explore options for creating a comprehensive employee financial health platform.
Webinar: What Your Customers Actually Want: Customer Satisfaction and Financial Health
The last in a three-part series, this conversation explored the connections between financial health and metrics that define what it means to be competitive in the financial services ecosystem.
Driving College Success
Higher education can provide remarkable access and opportunity to Americans, but financial challenges often prevent students from reaching their full academic potential. Read about how educational institutions can help more students achieve academic success and financial health.
Webinar: Understanding Your Financially Coping and Vulnerable Customers
During this member-exclusive webinar, authors of the U.S. Financial Health Pulse 2018 Baseline Survey explored findings from this groundbreaking research initiative. The second in a three-part series, this conversation shared a deep dive on never-before-released Pulse data representing individuals who are financially Coping or Vulnerable.
With Many Just A Paycheck Away From Financial Ruin, Employers And FinTech Can Help
Sixty percent of households in America have experienced a financial shock in the past 12 months, according to Pew research. Close to 800,000 federal government employees were affected by the Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 government shutdown, forcing them to go without a paycheck for 35 days and giving this statistic a face. In her inaugural […]
2018 Financial Health Leaders Spotlight: Simple
Listen in as we hear Simple share what it discovered after measuring its customers’ financial health and how that’s propelling Simple forward in 2019.
Webinar: What Customers Actually Want: Customer Satisfaction and Financial Health
Join the authors of the U.S. Financial Health Pulse 2018 Baseline Survey for the third in a member-exclusive webinar series exploring findings from this groundbreaking research initiative.
Webinar: Key Findings from the Pulse & What They Mean for Your Business
During this member-exclusive webinar, authors of the U.S. Financial Health Pulse 2018 Baseline Survey explored findings from this groundbreaking research initiative. The first in a three-part series, this conversation explored into new cuts of the data and shared findings and trends on how Americans are saving and borrowing.
Webinar: Solving the Cash Crunch: Helping Small Businesses Access Check Funds Faster
Watch a presentation and discussion about the challenges that checks place on small business cash flow as small organizations wait for personal and business checks to clear.
2018 Financial Health Leaders Spotlight: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Listen in as we hear Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) share how it developed two sets of financial wellness scales, what it is learning as a result, and the exciting announcement CBA just released around measurement.
Technology is Making Parking Tickets Obsolete. Are Overdrafts Next?
Frequent debit card use makes it difficult to keep a diligent check register that accounts for pending payments. Behaviorally informed personal finance apps and smart checking account features have already begun to remove some of the uncertainties posed by recurring cash management challenges, just as smart meters have taken much of the gambling out of parking.
Bringing Underbanked Consumers Out of the Shadows
In this guest blog post, Josh Sledge and Equifax describe characteristics of underbanked and unbanked consumers and how financial institutions can better serve them. Josh tells us, “There’s a real market opportunity for providers to help underserved consumers build savings and credit to increase their resilience to financial shocks.”
2018 Financial Health Leaders Spotlight: FinFit
Listen in as we hear FinFit share how they think about the business case for financial health for employers and the impact they are seeing from the new FinFit IQ trivia game.