This story first appeared on Medium.  It took a natural disaster 1,500 miles away from where he was living in New York for R. Jerry Nemorin to upend his Wall Street career and start anew. Five months after the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands and leaving 1.5 million people without a […]

The Financial Health Network launches a groundbreaking survey, the U.S. Financial Health Pulse, in partnership with the Center for Financial Services Innovation, Omidyar Network, MetLife Foundation, and AARP.

Today we’re sharing an interview with Matthew Cooper, co-founder of EarnUp, a member of the 2016 Financial Solutions Lab class.    You’re an openly gay fintech founder. How do those two facts relate to each other? Being openly gay has greatly affected my career choices and how I became an entrepreneur. Both my startup journey […]

By Kate Flocken, Financial Health Network For more than 40 years, public policy has been actively promoting financial inclusion and how to enable consumers to have better access to high quality financial services, but the federal and state governments alike have struggled to keep up with the fast pace of change. Last week the Financial…

By Liz Loewy As a former elder abuse prosecutor in a large District Attorney’s Office, I witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of fraud in later life. The hundreds of elder financial exploitation cases I handled had a number of things in common. First, many of the cases involved older victims who weren’t able to testify, […]

$250K for each selected startup The Financial Solutions Lab — managed by Financial Health Network with founding Lab partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. — is excited to announce that applications are open for our fourth Innovation Challenge. Selected companies and nonprofits will each receive a $250,000 investment as well as unparalleled access to resources that can help them grow. For…

Lab to focus on the next generation of financial technology products 09:22 AM CT NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab) at the Financial Health Network with founding FinLab partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. officially launched its Fourth Annual $3 Million Challenge (Challenge) to identify fintech innovators and products that can help improve the financial […]

February 22, 2017 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Virtual fintech lab launched by the Financial Health Network and JPMorgan Chase helps fintech startups improve and scale solutions for people of color, low-income women, aging populations and people with disabilities SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab) at the Financial Health Network with founding FinLab partner […]

By Jennifer Tescher, Financial Health Network Last week’s headlines gave the impression that America is suffering from a lack of basic financial access, particularly for lower-income consumers. The fact is, consumers have more access to high-quality, low- or no-cost transaction accounts than they have had in at least a decade, thanks to dramatic changes in…

By Tanya Ladha and Rachel Schneider, Financial Health Network Maybe you’ve been there — you break a dish, clean down the middle. You find the superglue, carefully squeeze a small stream of the potent liquid on either side of the break, and patiently hold for the allotted 90 seconds. When you move to place the mended dish…

By Jeanne Hogarth, Financial Health Network The recent turmoil in leadership at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the initial actions of the acting director point to at least one conclusion: For consumers to continue to have access to high quality, innovative products that help them improve their financial health, focus needs to shift…