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Small loans – Irish credit unions’ best kept secret?

Small loans – Irish credit unions’ best kept secret?

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...
New report on ESG and Credit Unions

New report on ESG and Credit Unions

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...
Family Loan and Saving Scheme: An Analysis

Family Loan and Saving Scheme: An Analysis

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...
Deduction Lending: Does it add up for low income borrowers?

Deduction Lending: Does it add up for low income borrowers?

by Nick Money | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured, 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...
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...
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