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Money shame: Is being declined for credit the last taboo?
The Swoboda Centre is partnering with the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University on a project to research best practice in managing loan declines positively for credit unions and community development finance institutions (CDFIs), funded by...
We are now the Swoboda Research Centre!
In memorial to the Centre’s co-founder, first chair and driving force, Ralph Swoboda, the Centre has been re-named the Swoboda Research Centre. You can read more about Ralph’s contribution to credit unions and the Centre here. Our Twitter handle is now...
New! Maximising member savings: success, opportunity or threat?
The first object of credit unions noted in Irish and British legislation is the “promotion of thrift among its members by the accumulation of their savings”. For it is through saving and the building of assets, rather than through borrowing, that members achieve...
Talking Credit Unions #26 – Credit unions and problem gambling
Credit unions in Ireland and Great Britain are seeing potentially harmful gambling behaviour in the financial activity of their members. In Britain, the adoption of open banking in the underwriting process has proved a revelation, providing much more information on...
Credit Union Conference 24th September 2021: Materials
This was CFCFE’s first conference since the social distancing rules in Great Britain and Ireland made in-person attendance possible, so alongside seventy online participants there were fifteen attendees gathered in Manchester. 'Facing Contemporary Challenges' had a...
Ralph Swoboda R.I.P.
We are very sad to announce to the members and friends of the Centre for Community Finance Europe, and of the credit union movement across the world, that our friend and colleague Ralph Swoboda passed away at home in Dublin in the early hours of Monday morning,...
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The Centre works in collaboration with the Research Unit for Financial Inclusion at Liverpool John Moores University.
