by Nick Money | Jul 28, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
Download the new paper from CFCFE: The Opportunity for Irish Credit Unions in SME Lending. In a world still recovering from the financial crisis of the last decade and the health crisis of the last 18 months, credit unions face two challenges in building their SME...
by Nick Money | Apr 6, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
Many credit unions are seeing an ageing of their membership, as they have retained the loyalty of the people who joined when the credit unions were founded, but they have not recruited those members’ children and grandchildren. This report, focused on...
by Nick Money | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
This is the first output from an exciting programme of research that aims to evaluate how credit unions can manage loan declines most positively. In this report, James Fell, who many credit unionists will know from Quo Money, presents the results of a survey of 64...
by Nick Money | Dec 14, 2020 | News & Updates, Research Publications
Over the last few years, the importance of flexible, efficient and modern technology has risen up the agenda for many credit unions. 2020 has made this even more pronounced, as the ability of organisation to serve members effectively while staff are remote from...
by Nick Money | Nov 12, 2020 | News & Updates, Research Publications
We’re delighted to release a report from Dr Olive McCarthy of the Centre for Co-operative Studies at Cork University Business School (and CFCFE’s Advisory Board) on credit union perceptions of the opportunities and challenges for measuring and reporting on...
by Nick Money | Oct 12, 2020 | News & Updates, Research Publications
In the summer we produced an assessment of the rules around credit unions holding Annual General Meetings (AGMs) online, instead of or – as well as – face-to-face (Virtual AGMs: a guide for credit unions. Part I: the Compliance Issues). Now we are...
