by Nick Money | Sep 29, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
“Successful leadership of an organisation is a shared function between a board and its CEO and depends on this appreciation of partnership rather than a hierarchy (even though the CEO remains ultimately accountable to the board). These two functions do not work in...
by Nick Money | Aug 1, 2023 | 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 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...
by Nick Money | Jun 2, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
Swoboda is delighted to have supported David Harris and Tia Warbrick at Pennine Community Credit Union (PCCU), in Lancashire, GB, to co-author an in-depth study of one of British credit unions’ most popular products in recent years, the child-benefit-linked...
by Nick Money | Mar 7, 2023 | News & Updates, Research Publications
Swoboda was delighted to collaborate on a project led by the Financial Inclusion Centre to examine credit union deduction lending and its benefits for low income borrowers in Britain – where repayments are automatically taken at source from either salary...
