The CFPB will hold a meeting of its Consumer Advisory Board in Washington, D.C. on February 25, 2016. According to the meeting agenda, there will be morning session on the CFPB’s strategic outlook, with the speaker to be Chris D’Angelo, Chief of Staff, Office of the Director.
The topic for the afternoon session is measuring financial well-being, with the speakers to be Janneke Ratcliffe, Assistant Director, Financial Education, and Genevieve Melford, Senior Financial Education Research Analyst, Financial Education. This past December, the CFPB issued a new guide for financial educators containing a 10-question scale to measure “financial well-being” and instructions for scoring a consumer’s responses and interpreting scores.