by Nick Money | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates
The Swoboda Centre is partnering with the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University on a project to research best practice in managing loan declines positively for credit unions and community development finance institutions (CDFIs), funded by...
by Nick Money | Nov 22, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Welcome
In memorial to the Centre’s co-founder, first chair and driving force, Ralph Swoboda, the Centre has been re-named the Swoboda Research Centre. You can read more about Ralph’s contribution to credit unions and the Centre here. Our Twitter handle is now...
by Nick Money | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Research
The first object of credit unions noted in Irish and British legislation is the “promotion of thrift among its members by the accumulation of their savings”. For it is through saving and the building of assets, rather than through borrowing, that members achieve...
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 | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Past Events, Welcome
This was CFCFE’s first conference since the social distancing rules in Great Britain and Ireland made in-person attendance possible, so alongside seventy online participants there were fifteen attendees gathered in Manchester. ‘Facing Contemporary...
by Nick Money | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates
We are very sad to announce to the members and friends of the Centre for Community Finance Europe, and of the credit union movement across the world, that our friend and colleague Ralph Swoboda passed away at home in Dublin in the early hours of Monday morning, 13th...
