by Nick Money | Apr 21, 2022 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
The latest paper from Swoboda is now available. It is written by our 2021 Credit Union Research Prizewinners, Professor Martin Quinn (Queens University Belfast), Dr Peter Cleary (University College Cork) and Dr Martijn van der Steen (University of Groningen). The...
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...
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...
