Intelligence that fuels
change and improves
financial resilience and
financial well-being for all.
How We Help
Organizations Like Yours
As the leading independent authority on household financial resilience and a global leader in financial well-being impact measurement, we empower purpose-driven organizations to profoundly understand, benchmark and improve the financial resilience and financial well-being of their customers, employees and communities, while helping to build more resilient, inclusive growth and economies.
We partner with financial institutions, central banks, policymakers, regulatory bodies, financial health innovators, employers and social finance leaders to design and implement evidence-based solutions that improve financial resilience, especially for the most vulnerable among us. We help target strategies, policies, programs and impact to while fostering financial health and inclusion, reducing inequities and helping build financial and overall resilience to help build a better world.
Our Services
Our services include:
- Index and data analytics, benchmarking and impact measurement
- The creation of proprietary and white-labelled indices, studies, models and tools
- Strategic financial health and social finance advisory and consulting
- Enterprise financial health and resilience strategy and execution for organizations and in particular Financial Institutions
- Cross-sector impact and collaboration projects: in order to help solve key problems like financial vulnerability and accelerate social finance innovation for good.
The Challenge
That Financial Vulnerability Brings
Financial vulnerability and financial stress or a mainstream issue in Canada and countries around the world, affecting people of all household income levels. By helping to improve household financial resilience, we’re working to help foster more resilient, inclusive economies, while advancing sustainability and create positive social, financial and business outcomes.
Spotlight Index Reports
Renter Financial Vulnerability
Intelligence Memo October 2025
Financial Resilience as a Pathway to Financial
India Small Business Financial
June 2025 Index Release Report
Financial Resilience Index Model
Complemented by the Financial Well-Being Studies Instrument
Measuring a household’s ability to get through financial hardship, stressors and shocks as a result of unplanned life events at the national, regional or provincial, segment and individual household level across nine behavioural, resilience and sentiment indicators. The Index has a pre-pandemic baseline of February 2020 and applications globally.
Financial Well-Being Index Model
A free, publicly-available instrument for global impact
Free Financial Resilience Score Tool
For all Canadians and global citizens,
linked to free articles and resources
Join The Organizations
United Towards Financial Well-being for all
Recognize any of these brands.
All of them have worked with us, click on each logo to learn more.
Vancity is using the Index to measure and track the financial resilience and well-being of its members against long-term impact goals. The Institute has partnered with and advised the Credit Union on many projects from a financial health strategy and innovation perspective.
The Institute is partnering with Co-operators on a multi-phase enterprise-wide financial resilience project, to help the financial services organization to measurably improve the financial resilience and financial security of its clients and communities in line with its purpose. This work involved quantitative and qualitative research analytics, impact measurement, strategy and innovation, with our team working closely with Co-operators’ senior leaders, advisors, clients and an Advisory Group.
Data and research analytics is a team sport. Financial Resilience Institute (previously Seymour Consulting) and Statistics Canada have collaborated to publish a joint report on the financial resilience and financial well-being of Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the leading government statistical office having peer-reviewed the Seymour Financial Resilience Index TM.
Our Impact
Recognition from strategic partners
Intelligence that fuels change and improves financial resilience and financial well-being for all.
How We Help
Organizations Like Yours
As the leading independent authority on household financial resilience and a global leader in financial well-being impact measurement, we empower purpose-driven organizations to profoundly understand, benchmark and improve the financial resilience and financial well-being of their customers, employees and communities, while helping to build more resilient, inclusive growth and economies.
We partner with financial institutions, central banks, policymakers, regulatory bodies, financial health innovators, employers and social finance leaders to design and implement evidence-based solutions that improve financial resilience, especially for the most vulnerable among us. We help target strategies, policies, programs and impact to while fostering financial health and inclusion, reducing inequities and helping build financial and overall resilience to help build a better world.
Our Services
- Index and data analytics, benchmarking and impact measurement
- The creation of proprietary and white-labelled indices, studies, models and tools
- Strategic financial health and social finance advisory and consulting
- Enterprise financial health and resilience strategy and execution for organizations and in particular Financial Institutions
- Cross-sector impact and collaboration projects: in order to help solve key problems like financial vulnerability and accelerate social finance innovation for good.
The Challange
That Financial Vulnerability Brings
Financial vulnerability and financial stress or a mainstream issue in Canada and countries around the world, affecting people of all household income levels. By helping to improve household financial resilience, we’re working to help foster more resilient, inclusive economies, while advancing sustainability and create positive social, financial and business outcomes.
Spotlight Index Reports
Renter Financial Vulnerability
Intelligence Memo October 2025
Financial Resilience as a Pathway to Financial
India Small Business Financial
June 2025 Index Release Report
Financial Resilience Index Model
Complemented by the Financial Well-Being Studies Instrument
Measuring a household’s ability to get through financial hardship, stressors and shocks as a result of unplanned life events at the national, regional or provincial, segment and individual household level across nine behavioural, resilience and sentiment indicators. The Index has a pre-pandemic baseline of February 2020 and applications globally.
Financial Well-Being Index Model
A free, publicly-available instrument for global impact
Free Financial Resilience Score Tool
For all Canadians and global citizens,
linked to free articles and resources
Join The Organizations
United Towards Financial Well-being for all
Recognize any of these brands.
All of them have worked with us,
click on each logo to learn more.
Vancity is using the Index to measure and track the financial resilience and well-being of its members against long-term impact goals. The Institute has partnered with and advised the Credit Union on many projects from a financial health strategy and innovation perspective.
The Institute is partnering with Co-operators on a multi-phase enterprise-wide financial resilience project, to help the financial services organization to measurably improve the financial resilience and financial security of its clients and communities in line with its purpose. This work involved quantitative and qualitative research analytics, impact measurement, strategy and innovation, with our team working closely with Co-operators’ senior leaders, advisors, clients and an Advisory Group.
Data and research analytics is a team sport. Financial Resilience Institute (previously Seymour Consulting) and Statistics Canada have collaborated to publish a joint report on the financial resilience and financial well-being of Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the leading government statistical office having peer-reviewed the Seymour Financial Resilience Index TM.
Our Impact
Recognition from strategic partners