Last week, SpringFour was invited by the Consumer Bankers’ Association to moderate a panel at its CBA Live 2024 event with three of our incredible partners: BMO, Capital One, and KeyBank. SpringFour’s EVP of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships, Yasmine Anavi, moderated the panel with Jeoffrey Begin from BMO, Ray Tervol from Capital One, and David DeSantis from KeyBank.

The topic? “The Data Doesn’t Lie: Leveraging innovation and financial health for long term recovery strategies.”

With a focus on SpringFour’s impact on customers’ financial health, each panelist shared how SpringFour has enabled them to further support customers in their respective default management and account management strategies, nurture better customer engagement, and prioritize consumer financial health.

The consensus? Supporting customers’ financial health as a part of ongoing customer management is here to stay.

Consumers are facing a very challenging environment, with consumer debt rising to record highs, delinquency rates rising, student loan repayments restarting, and 78% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, according to Payroll.org. Consumers are facing hardships and most do not know where to turn for financial health support. 

That’s why our clients look to SpringFour as the trusted source for connecting consumers with vetted, local nonprofit and government resources that address their customers’ specific financial health needs.

Supporting customers with the help they need before they fall behind on payments is a real opportunity to build customer trust and loyalty and ensure that people stay current on their payments.  Ultimately, customers appreciate knowing their bank is in their corner and willing to help them, and employees feel empowered and proud to deliver actionable resources to customers in need. 

To learn more about partnership with SpringFour, visit the Contact Us page of our website or reach out to us at impact@springfour.com.

Morgan Pierce

Impact and Communications Manager, SpringFour

This just in: SpringFour Founder and CEO Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey has made Inc.’s Female Founders 250 — a list of the most creative and impactful female leaders in America!

Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey was chosen in both the financial services and changemaker categories, according to Inc., “for demonstrating the importance of marrying social impact with fintech and completing more than 5 million financial health referrals in 2023.”

Read more here.

Each year, Inc. editors review thousands of applications highlighting female founders who are challenging the status quo and tackling some of the world’s biggest problems. The list features women who have overcome challenges and lifted those around them, while leading impactful organizations across the country. This year, SpringFour’s Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey is featured alongside founders Christina Aguilera, Selena Gomez, Scarlett Johannson, Katy Perry, Shay Mitchell, and Natalie Portman, as well as Financial Industry leaders Billie Jean King of Billie Jean King Enterprises and Wendy Cai-Lee at Piermont Bank.

To learn more about partnership with SpringFour, visit the Contact Us tab on our website. 

Impact and Communications Manager, SpringFour

As social impact becomes a core measurement of success to more companies at SpringFour, we’ve seen an increasing need for social impact reporting from our clients. For many of our clients, Q1 is a time to look back at all the work done in the previous year to prepare ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance), CRA (Community Reinvestment Act), CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), and other reports that show how their companies are making a difference for their customers, employees, and beyond. 

With social impact at the center of our business, we’ve spent the last few weeks preparing customized, annual Social Impact Reports. These reports showcase the impact we made with each client to support their customers in 2023 through the use of SpringFour financial health referrals. 

We know that behind every SpringFour referral is a real person accessing financial assistance resources that can make a tangible difference in their lives. In fact, 91% of S4pro users agree that providing access to these resources helps people reduce their monthly expenses. And it’s not just our clients’ customers who benefit from these referrals, but also their employees and their bottom line.

Because of the impact these referrals have, our clients often use these reports to:

• Highlight the important work they’re doing to help their customers improve their financial health
• Bolster annual ESG, CRA, CSR, or social impact reporting
• Share with stakeholders and regulators how they’re helping to strengthen the communities they serve
• Better understand the ever-changing needs of their consumers

We’re incredibly proud to work in partnership with our clients to make financial health possible for more of their customers than ever before. As these reports make their way to our clients’ inboxes, we’re excited for them to see the impact they had in 2023 so that, together, we can create strategies to reach even more people in 2024.

For more information about our annual Social Impact Reports, please reach out to impact@springfour.com. 

Phylicia Clifton

Senior Client Success and Impact Manager, SpringFour