by Nick Money | Oct 19, 2021 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
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...
by Nick Money | Sep 13, 2021 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
The UK’s Credit Union Foundation launched an initiative in 2019 to to collect and preserve the memories of people involved in setting up and running credit unions before 2000 – the Save and Sound project. Through the use of oral history recordings, Save...
by Nick Money | Jul 12, 2021 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
Chris Smith asks an important question about the nature and purpose of credit unions: do they alleviate poverty? Is that what they are for? First, Chris asks Dr Paul A Jones, Director at CFCFE and Head of the Research Unit for Financial Inclusion at CFCFE’s...
by Nick Money | Jun 18, 2021 | Audio, News & Updates
Podcast download here. Chris Smith explores the opportunity presented by the deployment for credit unions of fully functional smartphone apps, and how this might affect a credit union’s traditional, personal relationship with members. Chris interviews Declan...
by Nick Money | May 20, 2021 | Audio, News & Updates
Podcast download here. Credit unions are increasing utilising apps to deliver services to members, providing features such as secure communications, balance checking and transactions on mobile phones. For some, this was a vital part of their ability to sustain...
by Nick Money | Mar 23, 2021 | Audio, News & Updates
Podcast download here. The Development Educator (DE) programme for credit unions is an extraordinary international endeavour, with a mission to “…. help established and emerging leaders within the credit union movement understand and leverage credit...
