Despite the fact that more than half of U.S. households struggle with their financial health, fintech founders and those who invest in them reflect a homogenous world. While specific numbers for diversity in fintech are difficult to nail down, we know that all-women teams of entrepreneurs received just 2 percent of all investment by venture […]

Pictured: Tanya Van Court, CEO and founder of Goalsetter Kids with savings accounts in their name are six times more likely to go to college and four times more likely to own stocks as young adults. Having worked as a leader in preschool and parenting digital products at Nickelodeon, Tanya van Court knew a lot […]

Competition to focus on fintechs and employers that offer a diverse range of workplace financial wellness programs and solutions for underserved workers 08:00 AM CT NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab) at the Financial Health Network with founding Financial Solutions Lab partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. officially launched its Fifth Annual Challenge (Challenge), […]

Recently GreenPath, one of the country’s largest nonprofit financial counseling organizations, released “Building Successful Nonprofit-Fintech Partnerships,” detailing its work to co-develop and distribute a new client service with EarnUp, a fintech company that makes it easier for people to manage and pay down debt. The report is a goldmine of insights on how to build better […]

In January 2018, we issued a call to the marketplace of entrepreneurs in America, seeking a broad range of solutions to improve the outcomes of people in America struggling with their finances. Applicants were strongly encouraged to support diversity in solutions, customer focus, and founding teams. For the fourth year in a row, the Financial […]

Winning Ideas Leverage Technology and Life Experience to Focus on Financing College, Improving Savings and Accessing Credit 07:00 AM CT NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab) at the Financial Health Network with founding partner JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced eight fintech innovators as winners of its Fourth Annual $3 Million Challenge (Challenge). Each of the […]

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 […]

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 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, […]

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 […]