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U.S. Financial Health Pulse Finds Only 29% of People Living in the U.S. Financially Healthy

Chicago, IL – Nov. 14, 2019 – The Financial Health Network, the nation’s authority on financial health, in partnership with Flourish, MetLife Foundation, and AARP, today released the U.S. Financial Health Pulse 2019 Trends Report. Now in its second year, this year-over-year analysis of peoples’ financial health found that despite...

[Bloomberg] Warehouses Are Tracking Workers' Every Muscle Movement

Every morning when he goes to work in the freezer room of a warehouse in eastern Pennsylvania, Jack Westley throws on a hooded sweatshirt to keep warm and grabs a radio to talk to his coworkers. He was recently given a new piece of equipment to wear, which he attaches...

October 29, 2019

Hacking New Solutions: US Financial Regulators Enter Unchartered Territory

Managing partner Tilman Ehrbeck discusses how when it comes to fighting financial crime, bad actors are massively outgunning the good guys. Groups like the newly-launched…

New Alliance Launches to Help Regulators Deploy Tech and Build Smarter Financial Regulation

Backed by Fintech Entrepreneurs and VCs, Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) Launches at Money20/20 Washington DC – Tuesday, October 29, 2019 – To help regulators embrace technology and integrate innovation into their organizational DNA, Jo Ann Barefoot, former Deputy Comptroller of the Currency, and David Ehrich, co-founder of fintech credit...

Roll Call: Duo seeks to bridge information divide in fintech industry

Group calls for using data to achieve better credit access By Steven Harras Posted October 22, 2019 at 6:30am When a diverse coalition, including big banks and a civil rights group, this summer called for speedier deployment of cash-flow data to widen Americans’ access to credit, it was a little-known startup research organization that brought...

[Forbes] FHN Jen Tescher: When Mission and Margins Meet, the Market Celebrates

By Jennifer Tescher, Financial Health Network One of the many things this crazy year will be remembered for is dead unicorns. The road to IPO is littered with $1 billion+ duds: Uber, GreenSky, WeWork. The carnage has been so bloody, some venture capitalists and tech founders are beginning to realize...

[PODCAST] Cushion CEO Paul Kesserwani Shares Advice for Fintech Founders on "Before the A" with John Siracusa

"Before the A" is a show dedicated to telling the stories of fintech founders who’s startups are seeking their “A round” of financing. Fintech founder Paul Kesserwani joined John Siracusa on the podcast to share Cushion's mission, his professional life prior to becoming a CEO, and words of wisdom for...

[Bloomberg] Socially Conscious Bank Card Gives Do-Gooder Customers Cash Back

Online bank Aspiration will give its debit-card customers 3% to 5% cash back when they shop at more than dozen companies that have a social mission, including eyeglass provider Warby Parker, shoe seller Toms and household-goods retailer Brandless, the bank said in a statement Thursday. “It provides the encouragement people...

August 26, 2019

United Income Acquisition Validates Approach to Purpose-driven Fintech Investments

Capital One’s acquisition of our portfolio company United Income is a tangible validation of Flourish's belief that purpose-driven entrepreneurship and technology-led innovation can create new…

Andrei Cherny

[Los Angeles Times] How I Made It: He dreamed of a career in politics. Now he’s shaking up consumer banking

Andre Cherny, co-founder and CEO of Flourish portfolio company Aspiration, sat down with the Los Angeles Times' Margot Roosevelt in a "How I Made It" feature to share his own journey - from politics, to Fintech - to how Aspiration's mission is focused on the health of consumer finances, their...

Jennifer Tescher

[Forbes] FHN's Jennifer Tescher: Go Slow On Libra. Speed Up On Faster Payments.

In June, Facebook revealed the details of its proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. Jennifer Tescher, founder and CEO of the Financial Health Network, raises concerns about Libra in her Forbes Opinion piece. She notes that while it's...

Humans Are Not Calculators

Emmalyn Shaw shares behavioral economics learnings from expert Wendy De La Rosa.