With stockpiling and panic-buying causing many products to sell out during the COVID-19 outbreak, many of the UK’s most vulnerable are having a hard time shopping for essentials. To help them, some supermarkets are opening early to let the elderly shop in peace without having to compete with others.

Events and festivals are out of the question as lockdowns remain in place in the US, which has put tulip farmers in a tricky situation. In the wake of cancelled tulip festivals, some farms are repurposing unsold flowers and sending them to frontline healthcare workers and the elderly.

The online-only Ally Bank has introduced new features to encourage Americans to change their attitudes towards saving and make it easier to achieve savings goals. As such, Ally Bank has brought financial psychology on saving habits, technology, and traditional banking together with new saving tools.

Are people growing bored of fintech services? How is an abundance of banking choices hindering decisions? And what money taboos are people desperate to break? In this chapter of the 2020 Expert Outlook, we speak to three experts about people’s desire for ease and openness in finance.