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Templates to help manage loan declines positively
After publication in November of the Managing Loan Declines: A Best Practice Manual, based on research by Coventry University and Swoboda Research Centre and funded by Fair4All Finance, we held a very well-attended webinar in January where the authors of the manual...
Reflections: A Different Future for British Credit Unions
British Credit Unions: A Different Future Our Reflections series provides a platform for practitioners to share their experience, insights and ideas with the credit union movement and its stakeholders. In this new paper, Jonathan Moore, formerly CEO of Stockport...
Food for Thought: Credit Unions, Crisis and Carpe Diem
Food for Thought: Credit Unions, Crisis and Carpe Diem Jonathan Moore, formerly CEO of Stockport Credit Union, reflects on crisis and opportunity for British credit unions. Jonathan will expand on these ideas on a forthcoming Reflections paper from Swoboda. The...
Credit Union Conference 11th November 2022: Materials
The subject of responding to the cost of living crisis drew a large crowd of credit unionists and stakeholders to Manchester on 11th November. Participants came from Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to address this critical and developing issue. Here is...
New report: Managing Loan Declines
Access to credit is is a vital pat of many people's financial management, especially in difficult economic times. But especially in such times, affordability and credit records come under further pressure and loan applications may be unsuccessful. At best, a...
Andy Burnham to open Credit Union Conference
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester with a national political profile, is opening Swoboda’s Credit Union Conference in Manchester on 11th November. The focus of the conference is on the cost-of-living crisis, and the Mayor is going to offer his thoughts on...
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