Study Finds New Digital Products Offer Billions in Revenue Potential by Helping Protect Elderly from Fraud
Rhea-AI Summary
Cornerstone Advisors released a report highlighting a $1 billion revenue opportunity for financial institutions through Senior Financial Management (SFM) tools. These digital banking products help adult children manage elderly parents' finances and protect against fraud. The study reveals that 40% of Americans with parents over 60 manage their parents' finances, while elderly financial fraud totaled $38 billion in 2023. Over 70% of respondents expressed interest in such tools. The report comes as the Boomer generation prepares to transfer $70 trillion in wealth to their heirs.
Positive
- Potential $1 billion annual revenue opportunity in Senior Financial Management tools
- Large addressable market with 40% of Americans managing elderly parents' finances
- Strong market demand with 70% of survey respondents interested in SFM tools
- Positioned to capture part of $70 trillion wealth transfer from Boomer generation
Negative
- Significant market competition risk in the digital banking products space
- Operating in OTCQB market, indicating lower trading volume and liquidity
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Latest Cornerstone Advisors report reveals untapped opportunity in providing Senior Financial Management tools to aging adults
BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Rego Payment Architectures, Inc. (“REGO”) (OTCQB: RPMT) announced the release of "The Boomer-ang Effect: Financial Institutions’
“Senior Financial Management” (SFM) represents an emerging category of digital banking products that help adult children manage the finances of aging parents or relatives. Such tools also have features that constantly monitor unusual behavior (e.g., missed or repeated payments, suspicious purchases or unauthorized logins to bank accounts) and can prevent or minimize fraud, theft and unwanted subscriptions. The latest report from Cornerstone Advisors explores how SFM products can be a significant revenue opportunity for financial institutions given the growing threat to the elderly.
According to the report,
“Given the heightened risk of fraud facing people over 60, we believe financial institutions are uniquely positioned to offer banking products that help Americans protect the finances of their elder loved ones,” said Ron Shevlin, Chief Research Officer at Cornerstone Advisors and author of the report. “The demand for these kinds of products, which we call Senior Financial Management, presents an opportunity to generate more than
The report outlines the features and benefits of SFM products and how financial institutions can deploy and integrate such offerings into their businesses.
“We are in the midst of a significant transfer of wealth, totaling over
To learn more about this research and uncover the opportunities for financial institutions to offer Senior Financial Management products, click here to download the report.
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About REGO
Rego Payment Architectures, Inc. ("REGO") is a family digital wallet platform that empowers financial institutions to let their customers’ children spend, save, donate and invest in a safe, parent-controlled environment. Founded in 2008, REGO is the only family digital wallet platform to be certified COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) and third-party GDPR (General Data Privacy Regulation) compliant. REGO has also been awarded multiple patents related to the safety of parent and child data, including age verification of users. Built from the ground-up to protect the privacy of children's data, REGO offers financial literacy tools for parents to teach their kids to be smarter shoppers, savers, givers and investors. Financial institutions of all sizes can offer a family digital wallet product through REGO as a white-labeled stand-alone application or fully integrated into their existing app.
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