Despite app satisfaction growth, wealth managers trail banks’ and insurers’ satisfaction scores—but access to advisors and education could help them make up ground.

As a new bottled water brand on an already crowded shelf, education is essential for creating brand trust. Watch Industry Voices: Spotlight on CPG with Nirvana Water Sciences’ marketing director Alex Matos to hear how the brand’s marketing hinges on teaching the benefits of its infused spring water to prospective consumers.

Financial education tools will help robo-advisors engage younger investors who are eager to learn. Robo-advisors can tap into their appetite for learning about investing, which surpasses that of their older cohorts, according to a 2020 Vanguard survey. This helps engage a customer base that is largely first-time investors. Merrill Guided Investing.

Is AI becoming Big Brother? Human presence and emotional-state detection technologies are raising civil rights alarms bells. Although they could have merits for productivity, they’re also invasive and error-prone.

They spent 3.8 percentage points less, however, on healthcare, entertainment, education, and insurance. In some instances, their lower spending owes to obstacles including inadequate access to financial services, healthcare, and education. Black America Isn’t a Homogenous Group. Like most broad groups of consumers, Black Americans comprise vast demographic distinctions.

Boll & Branch pairs sensorial content with education and service to engage consumers.

Trust and value are informed by Black consumers’ education and everyday experience. These concerns may be further influenced by the statuses of individual Black consumers—including whether they are immigrants or native-born Americans, high-income or low-income earners, and Gen X, seniors, or a generation in between.

“We have witnessed some slowdown in both the education and consumer markets, but all indicators show demand for commercial PCs remains very strong,” said IDC Program Vice President Ryan Reith. Global return-to-office plans will continue to fuel commercial PC sales as companies entice workers back to physical office spaces.

On average, a unionized worker earns 13.2% more than a peer with similar education, occupation, and experience in a nonunionized workplace in the same sector, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Union workers are also more likely to have access to paid sick days and health insurance. Worth the fight?

Key benefits: Affordable broadband could go a long way toward unlocking work and education opportunities for remote and underserved communities. More people can now consider remote work, as well as access high-definition streaming services.

Education payments firm PayMyTuition launched open banking-powered eBill and eStatement solutions. The Canada-based firm’s end-to-end support for the tuition payment process includes solutions like digital bill presentment, student payment plans, multicurrency payment acceptance, and refunds.

Banks must include education in their marketing strategies. Consumers and banks have both had reservations about biometrics’ invasiveness and accuracy, per Aite Group and Axios. But Amazon’s rising deployment of biometrics at Whole Foods and Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena may help to normalize their usage—and steady growth in adoption could encourage banks to move ahead on their own.