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Finance

Monthly Trend Tracker

Smart Tracker

Smart Finances: Tracking Trends in the Financial Services Industry
Updates monthly

Financial Well-Being

Personal Finances

Financial Well-Being Scale
Updates monthly

Return to Normal

What Our Return to Normal Looks Like After Two Years of the Pandemic
Analysis

Consumer Credit

Consumers’ 2021 Financial Progress Was Hard Fought. 2022 Will Require More Support From Banks
Analysis

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Banking

The State of Consumer Banking and Payments: Q2 2022 Report

This quarterly report tracks trends in the consumer banking and payments world, and evaluates what changing attitudes mean for the future of each industry

Analyst report

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Cryptocurrency Insights Hub
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Economic Outlook

Now Is the Time to Prepare for a Recession
Analysis

Banking

The Black Banking Experience Is Digital, but Banking Leaders Must Understand Why
Analysis

Fintech

How Embedded Finance Will Disrupt Traditional Financial Services Brands
News

Cryptocurrency

Now Is The Time to Think Beyond Crypto and Focus on DeFi and Web3

Analysis

Black Innovators Did Some of the Earliest Work in Cryptocurrency. What Happens Now That It’s Mainstream?

News

Crypto Is Getting Increasingly Political in Washington. The Rest of the Country Isn’t as Polarized

News

Bitcoin

As Bitcoin’s Price Falls, Retail Investors Stay the Course
Morning Consult’s financial services analyst Charlotte Principato examines the bitcoin purchase intentions of current owners and consumers more broadly

Analysis
The Walmart and Litecoin News Was Fake, but Walmart and Bitcoin Have Potential
Morning Consult financial services analyst Charlotte Principato delves into Walmart’s customer base to discover Bitcoin ownership among customers of different shopping frequencies

Analysis

Financial Policy

Congressional Republicans Now Lead Generic Ballot Among Child Tax Credit Recipients

46% of voters who received the expired pandemic-era benefit say they’ll back a Republican in the midterms

News
Congressional GOP Has Biggest Trust Advantage on Inflation

By a 14-point margin, voters trust Republicans in Congress over Democrats to handle the rising cost of goods

News
Most Voters of All Parties Support Congressional Stock Trading Restrictions

More than 3 in 5 voters back a ban on stock trading for lawmakers, including 69% of Democrats and 58% of Republicans

News
Economists Say 2022 Is the Year of Inflation. Can the Public and Policymakers Get on the Same Page?

From politics to markets, there’s an expectation from economists that inflation will continue to echo throughout the country next year

Analysis

Unbanked and Underbanked

How the Roughly One-Quarter of Underbanked U.S. Adults Differ From Fully Banked Individuals
The Financial Goals of Underbanked and Unbanked Americans
Banking the Unbanked Requires Raising Trust and Awareness. For the Underbanked, Better Service Means Payments Innovation

Buy Now, Pay Later

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Users Significantly More Likely to Overdraft Than Nonusers
Morning Consult logistic regression analysis shows correlation between U.S. BNPL users and those who have overdrafted accounts
How ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Consumers Differ From Credit Card Users
U.S. respondents who have used a BNPL service report more income volatility and poorer financial well-being compared to those in a household with a credit card, writes Morning Consult’s financial analyst Charlotte Principato

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