DailyPay has debuted “Credit Health,” a tool to help users monitor their financial wellness. Announced Monday (Sept. 16), the offering is integrated into the earned wage access (EWA) company’s app, letting users stay on top of their credit status. The company said the need for...
Brightfin has debuted its financial wellness app, aimed at helping younger consumers. “Younger generations think about money differently. Gen Z and Millennials don’t necessarily have the same life goals as their parents, but financial guidance hasn’t caught up with their changing needs and priorities,” Brightfin Co-founder...
Over the last several months, PYMNTS Intelligence data has revealed in separate reports that tens of millions of consumers would opt for a single point of access to manage banking and spending — through an everyday app. They’re using a number of digital conduits to...
Not all that long ago, as Doug Brown, chief product officer, NCR Voyix Digital Banking, observed, credit unions and banks had a rather simple approach to financial wellness. The old-school playbook, pre-COVID-19 and before the great digital shift, he told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, went something like...
While most consumers use credit to purchase products or services because of the rewards they can get for doing so, PYMNTS Intelligence reveals, younger shoppers are the only ones to leverage the payment method primarily as a way to manage their spending better. By the Numbers The study “The...
When is a loan not a loan? That is, in one sense, the question at the heart of proposed new federal legislation around earned wage access (EWA) that is coming on the heels of multiple states debating their own regulations in the absence of substantial federal rules around EWA...
Financial intelligence company IDIQ has launched a platform that aims to help consumers build their credit scores. CreditBuilderIQ, announced Tuesday (April 16), joins the company’s suite of identity theft protection, credit monitoring and financial wellness tools. “With consumer debt at an all-time high, rising delinquencies, and reduced credit...
Voyant has added three new financial planning and modeling tools focused on retirement planning to its financial wellness and wealth management software. These retirement planning simulations are designed to help financial advisors illustrate complex solutions with the click of a button, providing greater visibility and...
Varo Bank has introduced two new products aimed at helping Americans alleviate their financial pressures. The online bank on Tuesday (March 26) announced the launch of Varo Line of Credit, along with the company’s new Smart Bank Account tools, coming at a time when consumers are finding it...
