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Templates to help manage loan declines positively

Templates to help manage loan declines positively

by Nick Money | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications

After publication in November of the Managing Loan Declines: A Best Practice Manual, based on research by Coventry University and Swoboda Research Centre and funded by Fair4All Finance, we held a very well-attended webinar in January where the authors of the manual...
Templates to help manage loan declines positively

New report: Managing Loan Declines

by Nick Money | Nov 14, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications

Access to credit is is a vital pat of many people’s financial management, especially in difficult economic times. But especially in such times, affordability and credit records come under further pressure and loan applications may be unsuccessful. At best, a...
Credit unions and gambling: a practical guide to support members

Credit unions and gambling: a practical guide to support members

by Nick Money | Jul 20, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Research, Research Publications

Many credit unions, particularly those in Britain using open banking, are seeing increasing signs of problem gambling in the expenditure patterns of members applying for loans. Up to 1.2 million adults in the UK are classified as ‘problem gamblers’ and in Ireland over...
‘Meet the author’: Social Value Reporting and Credit Union Legitimacy

‘Meet the author’: Social Value Reporting and Credit Union Legitimacy

by Nick Money | Apr 21, 2022 | 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

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?

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...
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Recent Blog Posts

  • Templates to help manage loan declines positively January 24, 2023
  • Reflections: A Different Future for British Credit Unions December 14, 2022
  • Food for Thought: Credit Unions, Crisis and Carpe Diem November 28, 2022
  • Credit Union Conference 11th November 2022: Materials November 15, 2022
  • New report: Managing Loan Declines November 14, 2022
  • Andy Burnham to open Credit Union Conference November 2, 2022
  • Talking Credit Unions #29: Salary advance schemes – here to stay? October 26, 2022
  • 2022 Research Prizewinners Announced! October 24, 2022
  • Swoboda is looking for new board directors – could it be you? October 19, 2022
  • CEOs and Directors – don’t miss out on the Swoboda conference! Internationally-renowned keynote speaker joins us October 18, 2022

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