EduFin Summit, the annual benchmark event on financial education organized by BBVA’s Center for Financial Education and Capability, is back after a year of absence due to the pandemic. This year’s online edition will begin on May 12 for five days during a three-week-period. Edufin Summit 2021 will address the state of financial education in the post-COVID era and the value of financial knowledge for contributing to inclusive growth, among other topics.
According to the OECD expert, who has shared her extensive knowledge in past editions on crucial topics such as the synergy between literacy and financial behavior or the role of digitization in financial education,
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Europeans twice as optimistic about their own financial health compared with their country’s
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• But only 28% say the same about the financial health of all people in their country
• People in the Netherlands are most optimistic about their current financial health, rating it 19% higher than the European average
The latest consumer survey from the Think Forward Initiative (TFI), an organisation dedicated to improving financial wellbeing, has unveiled the state of European financial health in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. TFI’s analysis of over 8,000 respondents across eight European countries found that whilst the continent’s financial health was adversely affected by the pandemic, Europeans perceived these effects to be felt by people in their countries to a greater extent than by themselves as individuals.