Check Your Financial Health

Our portfolio company, GoalSpring Financial, has been working on the big idea of encapsulating your financial health in a small, digestible package for a while.  Most people are now familiar with what their credit score is – if not due to the credit crunch of the past couple years, then…

The Power of Rent

Since my first post on Experian’s acquisition of CFSI’s portfolio company, RentBureau, more great news has hit, not just in a press release, but the Baltimore Sun and others have run stories:  As PRBC’s Michael Nathans envisioned, the founders of RentBureau then built and now Experian and VantageScore are realizing,…

Financial Bliss

Saw a little “infographic” in the Banker today, under the heading “Ignorance is Bliss,” produced by Javelin Research.  CFSI’s Rachel Schneider quickly absolved me of the notion that it’s surprising people are paying less attention to their finances.  “Who wants to track bad news?”  I guess so, however, I would…

New Type of Stimulus

If you follow these things, you’ve probably heard about the Treasury’s new (if uncompellingly named) MyAccountCard pilot.  Issued by soon-to-be Green Dot’s Bonneville Bank, managed by Green Dot, the US Treasury will send these GPR cards to 600,000 underbanked households, suggesting they use the card to receive their tax refunds.…