Pulse Points: Financial Health Differences Among Entrepreneurs
More people across the U.S. are starting businesses than ever before. What is the relationship between entrepreneurship and financial health?
Building Wealth: Empowering Black Small Business Owners Through Investing
A new program shows promise for increasing stock market participation and investing confidence among Black entrepreneurs.
From the Bank to the Business: Building Stronger Connections
A candid conversation on what drives small business financial health, how banks strive to support those needs, and how those efforts impact entrepreneurs.
Empowering Small Businesses: How Section 1071 Can Spark Financial Health for All
Financial decisions are complex and shaped by broader systems. As a result, financial health solutions need to create systems that enable better decision-making.
Mastercard: Empowering Small Businesses With Accessible AI
Through its global initiative, Mastercard Strive is supporting small businesses with innovative AI solutions that would otherwise be difficult to access.
Finli: Using Fintech To Support Black-Owned Businesses
Learn how fintech Finli partnered with the Financial Health Network to help Black business owners rebuild and recover from the pandemic.
Boosting Financial Health Benefits in the Small Business Workplace
Small businesses want to invest in their employees’ financial health, but affordable benefits are often out of reach. How can the marketplace close the benefits gap?
Helping Small Business Employers Deliver Financial Inclusion Benefits
Small businesses often struggle to provide the financial inclusion benefits offered by larger employers. What solutions could close the gap for millions of American workers? This article is EMERGE sponsored content presented by Principal Financial Group.
America Needs Small Businesses. Here’s How We Can Help Them Succeed
Small businesses are essential to our economic well-being, but they face common challenges. Learn how the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth is building a support ecosystem to help them and fuel an inclusive economic recovery. This article is EMERGE sponsored content presented by Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
Serving Small Businesses Through the Current Crisis and Beyond
How can banks, nonprofits, and fintechs best serve this crucial sector of our economy through the current crisis and beyond?
Introducing Connect2Capital: A New Community of Mission-Driven Small Business Lenders
Provided by CRF USA, this research introduces the Connect2Capital community, designed to level the playing field for small business owners seeking capital from a responsible lender.
A Guide to Measuring Small Business Financial Health
In this guide, we include nine indicators of small business financial health with two measurement methods (survey data or observed data), as well as corresponding survey questions and suggested data points.
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.
Solving the Cash Crunch
The Financial Health Network uncovers three ways providers can help small businesses access check funds and manage cash flow successfully.
Addressing the Financial Health Needs of Small Business Owners
Read this report to discover the four financial health needs that are especially relevant for small business owners and learn which innovators are working to support entrepreneurs’ financial health.
2017 Financially Underserved Market Size Study
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.
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.
Secured Credit Cards: People of Color
A long history of discrimination and wealth-stripping has caused African Americans, Hispanics, and other people of color to have lower credit scores, less wealth, and less trust in the U.S. financial system than whites.
The Financial Health Network Comment Letter on Exploring Special Purpose National Bank Charters for Fintech Companies
The Financial Health Network is submitting this letter in response to the request for comments on “Exploring Special Purpose National Bank Charters for Fintech Companies,” issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and published on December 2, 2016.
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.
Dispatch from D.C. — December 2015
Investment Activity in Fintech for the Financially Underserved
This report examines the significant volume of recent investment activity in the FinTech market for financially underserved consumers. This consumer finance segment is a dynamic and growing space.