First Internet Bank survey finds 46% of U.S. consumers follow budgets in past six months

By Public Technologies
  • First Internet Bancorp survey of 1,000 U.S. adults found 46% followed a budget in the past six months.
  • Debt reduction reached 36% of respondents. Emergency savings building reached 31%. Credit score improvement reached 27%.
  • Budgeting and spending tools ranked top for boosting confidence at 29%. Debt reduction strategies followed at 20%.
  • Optimism ran at 76% for the next 12 months. Only 32% felt extremely confident covering an unexpected USD 1,000 expense.
  • First Internet Bank launched a beta Model Context Protocol to connect approved account data to AI assistants via read-only access.


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