by Nick Money | Sep 8, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Upcoming Events
Registration now open for the Swoboda Credit Union Conference on 24th November in Manchester. What does a digital future really mean for credit unions? What do credit unions need to do to ensure they can win in a changed world? Disturbance and Transformation: The...
by Nick Money | Aug 18, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Upcoming Events
Join report authors and other credit union people in discussing how to deliver this important service. Register here In June, Swoboda published a detailed report on Pennine Community Credit Union’s (PCCU) Family Loan and Savings Scheme (where Child Benefit is...
by Nick Money | Aug 1, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
Swoboda is delighted to release its latest report, Small Loans: credit unions best kept secret? An analysis of the economics and opportunity for credit unions serving the small loans market in Ireland. Introduced by Dr Olive McCarthy, Director of the Centre for...
by Nick Money | Jul 27, 2023 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
In episode 31 of the Talking Credit Unions series, Chris Smith talks to Paul Jones and Nick Money from Swoboda about the role of dividend, the importance of savings and the necessary balance of interests between savers and borrowers that boards need to consider. Chris...
by Nick Money | Jul 20, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Swoboda Credit Union Research Prize
Swoboda is delighted to be launching the Credit Union Research Prize for 2023. Details here. This award aims to bring new voices and ideas into the sector, and to support researchers who wish to contribute significantly to the development of the credit union movement,...
by Nick Money | Jun 23, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
‘ESG’ (Environmental, Social and Governance indicators) is a hot topic in the private business world, including banking, and in the US has even become a contested issue (Forbes magazine here, or FT here (paywall)). It should be axiomatic that credit unions are...