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691 documents found

Cash pointers: improving financial confidence for young people

Money skills training and advice delivered by 1625 Independent People in a wide range of community settings to current or potential social housing tenants aged 16-25.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Evaluation:
  • Measured Outcomes
  • Process Evaluation

Topics

  • Struggling and squeezed
  • Financial capability
  • Financial education

Country

  • England

Population Group

  • Children and young people (18 and under)

Cheques and balances: The use of cheque cashing services in the UK

This project explores the potential impact of cheque imaging on low income, excluded and/or vulnerable consumers and sole traders, including those who use non-bank cheque clearing services.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Qualitative

Topics

  • Struggling and squeezed
  • Credit
  • Financial capability

Country

  • Wales
  • England
  • Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland

Consumer engagement: barriers and biases

This report explores the reasons behind people’s decisions and the lessons behavioural economic theory offers policy-makers, particularly in relation to engagement in pension decisions.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Qualitative

Topics

  • Pensions and retirement

Country

  • Wales
  • England
  • Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)
  • Older adults (65+)

Consumer engagement: the role of policy through the lifecourse

This report explores the role that behavioural techniques play alongside other policy levers to help people achieve better long-term saving outcomes throughout the lifecourse.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Qualitative

Topics

  • Saving
  • Pensions and retirement

Country

  • United Kingdom

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)
  • Children and young people (18 and under)
  • Older adults (65+)

Consumers and competition: Delivering more effective consumer power in retail financial markets

This research considers what is reasonable and realistic to expect of consumers in retail financial services.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Quantitative

Topics

  • Saving
  • Credit
  • Financial capability

Country

  • Wales
  • England
  • Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)
  • Children and young people (18 and under)
  • Older adults (65+)

Culture and financial literacy

This study examines the effect of culture on financial literacy by comparing secondary school students along the German-French language border within Switzerland.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Quantitative

Topics

  • Financial capability
  • Financial education

Country

  • Other

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)
  • Ethnicity

Data disclosure and geographies of UK personal lending markets

A paper by researchers at the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS), Coventry University, using area-based credit lending data to understand the issue of financial exclusion on a geographical basis.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Quantitative

Topics

  • Struggling and squeezed
  • Debt
  • Credit

Country

  • Wales
  • England
  • Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland

Digital and economic inclusion: how internet adoption impacts banking status

Financial technology is promised as a means of financial inclusion for the un(der)banked. This study reviews available data to show that lack of digital knowledge impedes take-up of financial services.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Insight:
  • Quantitative

Topics

  • Saving
  • Debt
  • Credit

Country

  • USA

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)
  • Children and young people (18 and under)
  • Older adults (65+)

Employee financial well-being: Behavioural insights

A review of literature on behavioural insights, with a focus on how the insights can be applied to increase the financial wellbeing of adults in the workplace

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Review:
  • Systematic review

Topics

  • Financial capability
  • Financial wellbeing at work

Country

  • United Kingdom

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)

Employee financial well-being: why it's important

The report highlights the challenges presented by the impact of wider policy, economic and demographic change, and actions that stakeholders might take to promote employee financial well-being.

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Year of publication 2017

Evidence type

  • Review:
  • Literature review

Topics

  • Financial education

Country

  • Wales
  • England
  • Scotland
  • United Kingdom
  • Northern Ireland

Population Group

  • Adults (18-64)