Search Results for: Financial wellbeing

February 26, 2025 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard’s (NYSE: MA) range of fraud detection tools and solutions help protect and ensure payment security for consumers and businesses. In an evolving digital world, fraud threats seem to be coming from every direction, making it “challenging for Canadians to feel and remain secure.” Launching… Read More

November 15, 2024 @ 3:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Continuing Life retirement communities in California, marks two years of partnership with DailyPay – a worktech company and leading provider of earned wage access (EWA). Continuing Life retirement communities recognizes the importance of providing a good workplace for their team members – supporting, training, and… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland is investing more than €4 million in a range of financial literacy initiatives as part of its long-running national Financial Wellbeing campaign. Over 2024 and 2025 this investment, with a particular “focus on youth financial literacy, will help equip people with the… Read More

January 4, 2024 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the new year unfolds, Loqbox, a UK-based financial wellbeing business, reveals compelling insights from a survey of over 2,300 of its members, “indicating a commitment to financial health among Britons in 2024.” Key findings shared by Loqbox with CI: Financial goals to take center… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 10:37 am By Michael Wong  |  

Financial wellbeing startup Mintago has announced raising $4.75 million in its latest funding round to augment its platform and expedite its expansion across the UK. Established in 2019 by former Perkbox co-founder, Chieu Cao, Mintago stands as a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)-regulated company, rendering financial… Read More

September 3, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Customers of global software provider Civica will benefit from enhanced payroll information thanks to a new partnership with Experian. Through Experian’s interactive digital platform, PayDashboard, Civica users “will be empowered to better engage with, and understand their payslip information, helping them to take control of… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Remington Hospitality, a hotel management company, announced its partnership with DailyPay, the leading provider of on-demand pay. With DailyPay, Remington Hospitality employees have “access to their earned pay as they earn it.” This critical financial wellness benefit “provides the employees with the power of choice… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital wallets are a rapidly growing technology, seeing particular growth in popularity in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an update from Juniper Research. As noted in a report from Juniper Research, they are also “important in the fields of financial inclusion, and… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial wellbeing platform, Claro Wellbeing, and expert in global pay solutions, CloudPay, have announced a new partnership to provide financial wellbeing and education via the CloudPay NOW app. Claro Wellbeing, the financial education and wellbeing provider, “which offers financial coaching, e-learning courses and webinars, is… Read More

June 14, 2023 @ 3:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Discover Bank has launched a new mission-driven investment fund, the Discover Financial Health Improvement Fund, “to support startups and early stage technology companies who are developing solutions to improve the financial health of low- and moderate-income people, communities, and small businesses.” Discover Bank has “made… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Building on four years of work together to enable digital transformation among small businesses, Accion and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth announced a renewal of their partnership and a sustained commitment “to improve the financial health of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in emerging… Read More

December 29, 2022 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As searches for financial wellness skyrocket, financial therapist Megan Ford offers advice to consumers on how to look after their mental health – and their money With the news covering inflation, recession and the cost of living crisis more, it’s no wonder Americans are “feeling… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial wellbeing Fintech Wagestream, with research and analysis from Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, has launched the inaugural Australian State of Financial Wellbeing Report in a bid “to identify how employers can better alleviate financial stress in the workplace for struggling employees.” The report is… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth Wizards has implemented a “consumer-led” financial wellbeing app for Royal London in order to help over 1.5 million new and existing workplace pension clients with their finances. Royal London has reportedly configured the Turo Wellbeing app to create a series of personalized journeys to… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dreams, the financial wellbeing platform and “leader” in engagement banking solutions has  announced a partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in order “to focus on delivering a suite of sustainable banking products for financial institutions designed to empower individuals to change their behavior for the better… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sodexo Engage, which claims to be the “leading” employee engagement expert is teaming up with Wagestream, adding the charity-backed financial wellbeing app to its employee benefits platform. Via the collaboration, Sodexo Engage customers will be able to provide their people access to Wagestrean through its… Read More

April 16, 2022 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Formations, a financial management solution that “maximizes” the financial wellbeing of the self-employed, recently announced the completion of an $8 million Series A round led by Arthur Ventures. The investment round comes on the heels of YoY growth “of 500%.” It will help Formations further… Read More

November 8, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Even though there has been considerable economic uncertainty due to the COVID-19 outbreak, recent data from Payments Canada reveals that the nation’s residents feel that the worst might be behind them and are fairly optimistic regarding their financial wellbeing. Although 56% stated that they spend… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dreams, a provider of behavioral and engagement banking services for large financial institutions, has introduced its financial wellbeing platform with assistance from Ukraine’s commercial bank UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group. Dreams’ financial wellbeing platform has been integrated into UKRSIBBANK’s mobile banking app, allowing its 2 million… Read More

March 21, 2021 @ 7:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Claire Davidson from banking challenger Branch notes that during the past year, healthcare workers have had to deal with both mental and physical challenges “like none other.” This may have included risking their own lives during the COVID-19 pandemic to mental and emotional stress and… Read More