It's not well known, but about 4.5% of U.S. households are unbanked, meaning no one in the house has a checking or savings account. The rate declined during the pandemic because people opened accounts ...

The number of U.S. households with little to no access to financial services is falling year over year, as mobile banking and low-cost accounts help combat the trend. But while different racial ...

How Georgia’s unbanked population compares to the rest of the US. Most financial experts agree that the best time to start using a credit card is 18, as long as one is equipped with the financial ...

How many people don’t have a bank account? And just how difficult has it become to live without one? These questions are becoming increasingly important as more businesses refuse to take cash in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Nicosia. An elderly homeless man walks slowly past a Barclays Bank cash ...