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In the last ten years, a growing number of financial training courses tofight against banking exclusion have emerged in France, through publicpolicies and non-governmental projects. Based on the study of a “bankingeducation” project set up in 2004 in a French urban community, this articleshows how this space for financial education produces a specific market,in so much as it may be outsourced by the local authorities to consultingprofessionals. It also allows understanding that this outsourcing, whichimplies the financialization of the training of the neediest populations,highlights the need for the participation of bankers in the vast undertakingthat is training the poorest in rational management. In this respect, thearticle contributes to analyzing the contemporary configuration of thetreatment of poverty.