by Nick Money | Mar 3, 2023 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
Chris Smith is back! With a new addition to the Talking Credit Unions podcast series, Chris is joined by Swoboda directors Paul Jones and Nick Money to discuss projects, papers and conferences coming up at the Swoboda Research Centre. Chris speaks with Paul about new...
by Nick Money | Oct 26, 2022 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
Chris Smith has been investigating salary advance (also known as Earned Wage Access) for the Talking Credit Unions podcast series. Salary advance works like a short-term loan, where a provider enables an employee to draw down a proportion of the current month’s (or...
by Nick Money | Apr 7, 2022 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
Chris Smith is back, with a podcast that investigates how credit unions have emerged from the pandemic. Chris notes that the past two years have provided the ultimate stress test for the financial, operational, competitive, and cultural resiliency of credit unions,...
by Nick Money | Mar 23, 2022 | Audio, News & Updates
In this Global Credit Union Podcast from the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), “Aleksandr”, a liaison to the Ukrainian credit union movement, talks about the dire circumstances facing both the people of Ukraine and its credit unions. The podcasters are hiding...
by Nick Money | Dec 21, 2021 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates, Welcome
Over Christmas, we at the Swoboda Research Centre will be remembering our deceased colleague, Ralph Swoboda. We miss Ralph’s wit and wisdom, so we were pleased to come across a podcast from August 2020, containing an hour of reflections from Ralph during an interview...
by Nick Money | Oct 19, 2021 | Audio, 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...
