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“CFI COVID-19 Survey of Consumers — Wave 5 Supplies More Details on Disruptions and New Data on Savings

This report shares results from Wave 5 of a national survey of consumers investigating COVID-19 impacts on job status, income, and personal financial security.
Consumer Finance Institute Research Briefs and Special Reports

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Consumers Are Shifting Payment Options

This research brief discusses how consumers have changed their use of various payment and banking tools during the pandemic. It also sheds light on the payment resources consumers have available.
Consumer Finance Institute Research Briefs and Special Reports

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Despite Significant Vaccine Reluctance, More Consumers Are Upbeat About the Future

The majority of respondents felt more positive about their personal outlook in early July, according to the Consumer Finance Institute’s (CFI) latest COVID-19 Survey of Consumers. That optimism came despite a rising share of respondents who are reluctant to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
Consumer Finance Institute Research Briefs and Special Reports

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CFI COVID-19 Survey of Consumers — Employment, Income, and Financial Security as of October 2021

This report shares results from Wave 10 of a national survey of consumers investigating the effects of COVID-19 on employment and income data, including employment through the crisis, income changes and expectations for income in 2021, and financial security over the next three to 12 months.
Consumer Finance Institute Research Briefs and Special Reports

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Meet People Where They Are: Building Formal Credit Using Informal Financial Traditions

The Consumer Finance Institute hosted a workshop in February 2019 featuring José Quiñonez, chief executive officer, and Elena Fairley, programs director, of Mission Asset Fund (MAF) to discuss MAF’s approach to helping its clients improve access to mainstream financial markets. MAF’s signature program, Lending Circles, adapts a traditional community-based financial tool known as a rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) to help establish or expand credit reports for participants who may not be able to do so through traditional means. Lending Circles have served more than 10,000 ...
Consumer Finance Institute discussion papers , Paper 20-01

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Renters’ Experiences During COVID-19

his brief provides a summary of renters’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic with rental debt, landlords, eviction worries, rental assistance programs, and spending adjustments. It is based on the renter portion of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Consumer Finance Institute (CFI) COVID-19 Survey of Consumers – Wave 7, which was conducted in January 2021
Consumer Finance Institute Research Briefs and Special Reports

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Overdraft Use During the Pandemic: Insights from the CFI COVID-19 Survey of Consumers

This research brief examines consumers’ use of checking account overdrafts since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, using responses gathered from a special module in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Consumer Finance Institute COVID-19 Survey of Consumers conducted between July 5 and 16, 2021. The overdraft module includes responses from a national sample of 3,615 consumers, 1,054 of whom reported experiencing at least one overdraft charge during the crisis. Respondents provided their demographic and employment characteristics as part of the broader survey. Survey participants ...
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