Four Ways Financial Sector Policymakers Can Promote Financial Health
In the second post in our blog series on financial health, we explore what policymakers can do to ensure that the financial sector works to support people’s financial wellbeing.
Financial Health and Consumer Protection: Two Frameworks Converging
What do these distinct yet overlapping frameworks have in common and how do they affect each other?
How Do We Measure Financial Health?
In the third post of our blog series on financial health, we explore how capturing the essence of this multi-dimensional concept takes us beyond standard measures of financial access or income.
Exploring New Markets Through Disaggregated Customer Data
A new tool from the WSBI’s Scale2Save initiative makes public datasets in Nigeria more accessible for gathering customer data and insights.
The World Is Mobile, Why Isn’t Our Data?
Over 164 million migrant workers make a living in a foreign country, and almost 26 million refugees have been forced to flee due to conflict. Unfortunately, while migrant workers are on the move, their data is not, often preventing them from accessing financial services or better jobs. Developing a digital identity system is one potential solution to this problem.
Financial Health: The Opportunity for Financial Service Providers
If FSPs prioritize the financial health of their customers, they will not only increase customer loyalty, but they will build a more robust client base that will lead to longer term sustainability for their businesses.
Financial Health as a Consumer Journey
The deep value of a financial health framework is to enable financial service providers and regulators to step into customers' shoes and design products and policies that accompany and support them on their pathway to financial well-being.