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Deadline extended for Credit Union Research Prize 2022

by Nick Money | May 9, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Swoboda Credit Union Research Prize

Calling researchers! The deadline for applications for the Swoboda Credit Union Research Prize 2022 has been extended to 16th May. This unique award, now in its third year, is aimed at bringing new voices and ideas into the movement, supporting researchers who wish to...

Managing Risk in a Credit Union, from the Reflections Series

by Nick Money | Apr 25, 2022 | Reflections Series

The first paper from the Swoboda Reflections Series is from Caroline Domanski MBE, CEO at No1 CopperPot Credit Union, the largest police credit union in Britain. In this report, Caroline describes and analyses her experience of developing a risk management framework...

Introducing the Swoboda Reflections Series

by Nick Money | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series, Welcome

Swoboda Research Centre is proud to introduce the Reflections Series: a platform for practitioners – executives, directors and staff of credit unions and their stakeholders – to present their views and ideas. These papers are rooted in the experience of...

Social Value Reporting and Credit Union Legitimacy

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...

Where the financial system works against credit unions

by Nick Money | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Research, Research Publications

Swoboda is excited to publish a new report from Ismail Ertürk, of the Alliance Manchester Business School, on how credit unions are made vulnerable by the way the financial system is managed by policymakers and regulators. Ismail’s detailed and challenging...

New! Maximising member savings: success, opportunity or threat?

by Nick Money | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications

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...