Financial planning

A new study from the National Endowment for Financial Education indicates there could be wider interest for financial education in the coming year.

The Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based credit union has revamped its financial literacy offerings to align with in-school curricula on the topic developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

NCUA financial metrics don't illustrate the way these institutions have changed consumers' lives for the better.

The agency chairman's comments mark an unusual turn for an industry famous for its bipartisanship.

The chief investment officer at Bessemer Trust is driving results by building cohesive teams and listening carefully to clients.

In June, Warson became the first person to hold the newly created job of chairman of Citi Private Bank, North America.

A decade into her role as head of JPMorgan Chase's asset management arm, Erdoes continues to deliver strong results for the nation's largest banking company.

How is the Pennsylvania bank trying to differentiate itself in wealth management? By assembling a team of private bankers to cater to the complex needs of high-net-worth clients.

Building off the popularity of its personal financial management tool, HelloWallet, the Cleveland bank is now offering in-person financial checkups as a way to deepen customer relationships.

One credit union's launch of a financial wellness app aims to utilize behavioral research to better resonate with how consumers today use mobile applications.

Scientific techniques can help credit unions better understand how consumers are likely to behave in certain instances, allowing CUs to shape their tactics and responses to a variety of situations.

Even relatively wealthy Americans are so worried about their finances that it's affecting their mental and physical health. That's one of the findings in a Bank of America survey of more than 1,000 people in the U.S. who have enough investable money to qualify as "mass affluent."

Credit unions are helping out in a number of ways, including one institution that provided scholarships to student who excelled at a game about personal finance.

The total includes donations to community groups helping low-income people, support for the development of financial coaching programs and investment in the creation and testing of fintech tools that can help underserved people.

The Money Anxiety Index, a measure of consumer saving and spending habits, has started rising off a 50-year low. The economist who created it says that means another slump is nearing, and that banks should use the intel in pricing deposits and making other decisions.

Making donations for a variety of causes and teaching Boy Scouts about coins are just some of the ways credit unions are helping out in their communities.

Congress has returned from its two-week vacation with plans to debate a number of issues important to the credit union industry.

"If you gathered the U.S.-based senior counsels of the major Chinese banks operating in the United States," said Joseph Loffredo, assistant general manager and chief financial officer at the New York branch of China Merchants Bank, "you'd find one outlier, a lady about half the age of most of the others."

The U.S. subsidiary of the British banking giant has partnered with Everfi to offer an online self-guided financial education program, and with GreenPath Financial Wellness to deliver in-person seminars in numerous cities.