Express Wages Brings Earned Wage Access to Good Hands Home Care

Express Wages Brings Earned Wage Access to Good Hands Home Care
  • Earned wage access provider Express Wages has partnered with Good Hands Home Care to give employees advanced access to their earned income.
  • Express Wages facilitates payday advances of up to $200 a day. Money transfer options include a no-fee Visa Prepaid card, and repayment is managed systematically via the Express Wages app and company payroll platform.
  • Memphis, Tennessee-based Express Wages made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025 in San Diego.

A new partnership between earned wage access provider Express Wages and Good Hands Home Care will give caregivers and administrative staff access to a portion of their earned income in advance of their scheduled payday.

“We’re proud to partner with Good Hands Home Care,” Express Wages Founder and CEO Alfred Milan said. “Caregiving is deeply meaningful and important work, and strengthening financial stability plays a big role in helping care professionals stay focused on the people and families they serve.”

Express Wages offers a platform that provides employer-integrated, on-demand pay solutions. The company’s plug-and-play technology enables companies to give their employees immediate access to a portion of their earned wages before payday. For workers who are living paycheck-to-paycheck, this early access before payday can help them avoid high-interest predatory loans, unnecessary credit card debt, and overdraft penalties.

Employees can receive up to $200 a day via Express Wages payday advance, with money transfer options including a no-fee Visa Prepaid card. Next-day ACH transfers and instant transfers to debit cards are also available, with transaction fees of $3.95 and $4.95, respectively. Repayment is automatically deducted from the employee’s next paycheck via the app and payroll platform.

Companies using Express Wages can offer the service to employees without making any changes to payroll or experiencing negative impacts on cash flow. Built to ensure both easy integration and interoperability, Express Wages requires no software installation and connects with hundreds of human resources information systems including ADP, Gusto, QuickBooks, and more in a matter of a few days.

In its partnership announcement, Express Wages noted research from a 2025 Bankrate report that indicated that more than a third of Americans had to use funds from their emergency savings in the last year, with nearly one in five Americans having no emergency savings at all. These conditions are what can make consumers vulnerable to high-interest financing products at times of financial stress. In response, a growing number of companies such as Good Hands Home Care are leveraging solutions like earned wage access to give employees greater options when it comes to managing their finances.

“At Express Wages, we focus on building tools that benefit real working lives,” Milan said. “Earned wage access is about offering greater choice and control—giving people more ways to respond when unexpected expenses hit.”

Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Express Wages made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025 in San Diego. At the conference, the company showed how a new feature on its app delivers financial wellness experiences to help users improve their financial literacy.


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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

The first full week of October is bringing news of new product launches in the digital banking space, funding for continued innovation with stablecoins, and partnerships in payments and insurtech. Be sure to check back with Finovate’s Fintech Rundown all week long for the latest in fintech news!


Digital banking

Alkami unveils its Digital Banking Conversion Toolkit (DBCT) to support financial institutions through their digital transformation journeys.

Bud Financial launches its Bud MCP server to facilitate the integration of AI applications with Bud’s platform.

Checkout.com secures a Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank (MALPB) charter from the State of Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.

Payments

Express Wages brings early wage access to workers at Lenny’s Grill & Subs in Memphis, Tennessee.

Courtesy of a partnership with EBANX and MOVii, Colombia launches its instant payment ecosystem, Bre-B, inspired by Brazil’s Pix.

Payall Payment Systems completes certification and now supports live transactions vis FedNow.

Crypto and DeFi

Digital asset risk insights provider Agio Ratings secures $6 million in funding in a round led by Albion VC.

TerraPay teams up with Fipto to launch stablecoin-native flows.

Insurtech

UK-based insurtech Zego announces renewed partnership with Clearspeed.

Customer engagement

First City Credit Union partners with Eltropy to enhance member communications.

Taxes and accounting

Irish startup Leapifai goes live with its digital tax copilot platform.


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Meet 5 Companies Demoing at FinovateSpring That Promote Financial Literacy

Meet 5 Companies Demoing at FinovateSpring That Promote Financial Literacy

April is Financial Literacy Month. While we are all getting an education in trade policy these days, making sure we’re up to speed when it comes to financial wellness is just as important.

With that in mind—and with FinovateSpring less than one month away (May 7 – 9)—we wanted to highlight those demoing companies that have financial literacy and inclusion at the heart of their mission.


CoHome

Based in San Francisco and founded in 2025, CoHome offers a real estate co-ownership marketplace and management app that makes owning property more accessible for college students and their parents, reducing rent to zero.

How they support financial literacy: CoHome introduces parents to the concept of co-investing in student housing for their child.

Express Wages

Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, Express Wages offers Earned Wage Access (EWA) services to enable employees to receive some or all of their wages as they earn them.

How Express Wages supports financial literacy: Express Wages features a Financial Literacy blog on its website with articles and guides on budget-making, saving for a first home, and strategies to pay back student loans.

Kaian

Los Angeles, California-based Kaian provides a billpay support system that ensures that credit union members never have to worry about missing a payment due to temporary cash flow issues. The company was founded in 2022.

How Kaian supports financial literacy: Kaian’s AI-powered assistance provides personalized, on-demand financial guidance, including insights on budgeting, saving, and long-term financial planning.

Penny Finance

Founded in 2020 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Penny Finance describes its mission as “closing the wealth gap.” The company offers an online financial planning engagement engine for credit unions and small banks.

How Penny Finance supports financial literacy: Penny Finance provides tailored education, resources, and perks to credit union members and customers of small banks.

Supermoney

Headquartered in Santa Ana, California and founded in 2013, SuperMoney offers a comprehensive financial services comparison website providing recommendations on products from personal loans and savings accounts to tax preparation firms and brokerages.

How SuperMoney supports financial literacy: SuperMoney offers financial tools and resources—as well as industry studies—to help individuals make better financial decisions.

FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 2

FinovateSpring 2025 Sneak Peek Series: Part 2

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Diego on May 7 – 9. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Bits of Stock

Bits of Stock empowers financial institutions to offer fractional stock rewards on everyday transactions and account activity.

Features

  • Auto-enrollment of digital banking users into investment accounts
  • Free-to-premium investing and rewards account structure
  • Stock roundups and recurring investments

Who’s it for?

Community banks and credit unions.

Express Wages

With Express Wages on-demand pay, employees receive some or all of their wages as they are earned.

Features

The Express Wages solution offers a simple, safe dashboard where users can see wages and view financial wellness.

Who’s it for?

Banks, employers, businesses, and credit unions.

Penny Finance

Penny Finance is an online financial planning engagement engine that attracts, retains, and serves the digital generation by helping them get out of debt, get into investing, and retire with wealth.

Features

  • Delivers custom financial plans for members within minutes
  • Drives 60% digital engagement and 30% product referrals
  • Scales seamlessly with expanding enterprise requirements

Who’s it for?

Credit unions, community banks, and small banks.

Solda.ai

Leading fintechs and banks use Solda.ai’s AI sales representatives to automate onboarding, upsell, KYC, and retention calls with <1% AI detection at 60% cost.

Features

  • Automates sales with top-performing AI trained across phone, text, email, and chat
  • Scales instantly with multi-lingual, on-brand engagement
  • Reduces costs by 40% with <1% AI-detection

Who’s it for?

Consumer and commercial fintechs, banks, payment providers, and other financial services companies.

SuperMoney

SuperMoney’s personal finance super app puts money on autopilot, using real-time credit and bank data to deliver intelligent, stress-free financial decisions.

Features

  • Keeps spending aligned with user goals with AI-powered budgeting
  • Delivers tailored financial insights to put money on autopilot
  • Automates finding better loans and credit cards with Refi Robot

Who’s it for?

All financial service providers.