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Price comparisons as part of financial education?
Price comparisons as part of financial education?
For us adults, price comparison apps or websites have long since become an indispensable compass for our consumer behaviour. But how […]
Money and Peer Pressure
Money and Peer Pressure
You would think that money, printing and minting would go together perfectly. After all, it is precisely these processes that are used to […]
Financial knowledge in high demand
Financial knowledge in high demand
Between lockdowns and removing of restrictions, the transmission of knowledge has undergone fundamental changes. This applies also to the financial knowledge that is […]
How do you explain interest to children?
How do you explain interest to children?
Every year, the credit agency Creditreform publishes the Debtor Atlas Germany. The 2020 edition also takes a worried look at the […]
Strategic saving: A piece of cake?
Strategic saving: A piece of cake?
Every year, the credit agency Creditreform publishes the Debtor Atlas Germany. The 2020 edition also takes a worried look at the situation […]
How to explain poverty and wealth in a child-friendly way
How to explain poverty and wealth in a child-friendly way
Every year, the credit agency Creditreform publishes the Debtor Atlas Germany. The 2020 edition also takes a worried […]
Why debts are a family matter
Why debts are a family matter?
Every year, the credit agency Creditreform publishes the Debtor Atlas Germany. The 2020 edition also takes a worried look at the situation […]
Why is the importance of financial knowledge growing?
The growing importance of financial literacy
The Corona crisis is the much-cited burning glass through which deficits as well as changes for the better suddenly appear even more […]
Bank Cards for Children
Bank Cards for Children
Is there a right age at which children are ready for their first bank card? At least there is an age from which children have limited legal capacity – […]
Chores, Time and Money
Chores,Time and Money
Time, they say, is a priceless commodity and yet it has its price and, above all, its value. We adults know this, as we are […]
Play and learn: Gamification around money
Play and learn: Gamification around Money
We all know it: You don’t play with money! But why? After all, there is so much more to gambling than just fun. It promotes creativity, stimulates […]
Finny apps in the endurance test
Finny apps in the endurance test
If you’re good, you naturally want to get better – especially in a beta phase. Our Finny Family & Finny Kids apps are currently still in the beta phase. […]
Crypto-currencies: know-how for children
Crypto-currencies:
know-how for children
“Bitcoin, what is that, Mom?” “Dad, what does Ethereum mean?” Let’s face it: questions like that would throw many of us off our usual paths of financial education. Not […]
Good money habits – What are those anyway?
Good money habits
What are those anyway?
Money is an important part of our lives. We deal with it every day, it influences almost all our decisions and is decisive for our living […]
Gender Equality in Pocket Money: Between Gap and Equality
Gender Equality in Pocket Money
“One day I realised that for the same work the boys were getting more! That was a shock!” This is the experience that Dr. Mara Harvey […]
Salary Secret: Talking to children about your income
salary secret
“Mum and Dad, how much do you actually earn?” Probably all of us have asked our parents this question at some point. And as parents, we have […]
crowdfunding or crowdinvesting?
Crowdfunding or crowdinvesting
Crowdfunding and Crowdinvesting are two ways to fund Fintune to achieve a great mission on financial literacy.
wisdom of the crowd
Wisdom of the crowd – Unlimited universe of success
I am Ivo Meier and a strong believer in the ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ and its potential to innovate our […]
consumption: renounce or postpone?
consumption: renounce or postpone?
Consumption – does it make you happy? If money really rules the world, then consumption probably gives the coordinates along which we orientate ourselves and, […]
Social fintechs: a revolution…
Social fintechs: the revolutionary promise…
Indeed, what currently can be witnessed, as we speak, is the replication of the financial system by aspiring information technology entrepreneurs worldwide. They all […]
Black Friday: How to detect and avoid “sales” traps for children
Black Friday: How to detect and avoid “sales” traps for children
Under exceptional consumption conditions such as Black Friday, the cornerstones of one’s own financial education are often threatened […]
The financial education gene
We all know: Money can be inherited. But can other elementary monetary characteristics such as financial knowledge and financial education be passed on to your own children? So can we also inherit our handling of money and our knowledge of finance?
Haunted piggy bank?
Haunted Piggy Bank?
What do World Savings Day and Halloween have in common? In fact, there is something separating them at first, exactly one day. While World Savings Day 2020 will take place on 30 October, […]
Kids Learn Money Through Games: A financial literacy guidance
It might be surprising to know that money is not always an intuitive concept for kids. And sometimes for adults as well.
Designing for children: the finish line is just a small part of the story
How should digital products for kids be designed, so that they suit children’s cognitive, physical and emotional conditions?
