NEWS AND UPDATES
Managing Risk in a Credit Union, from the 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...
Introducing the Swoboda Reflections Series
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...
‘Meet the author’: Social Value Reporting and Credit Union Legitimacy
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...
Talking Credit Unions #28: Credit unions – did they survive the pandemic?
Chris Smith is back, with a podcast that investigates how credit unions have emerged from the pandemic. Chris notes that the past two years have provided the ultimate stress test for the financial, operational, competitive, and cultural resiliency of credit unions,...
Illegal moneylending and credit unions
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think-tank focused on poverty based in London, has published a report on the extent of illegal lending in the UK, how it affects those who get drawn into borrowing from illegal lenders and how alternatives might be supported...
The Credit Union Green Lending Conference 2022
The Swoboda Research Centre welcomes its members, and all interested in the credit union sector in Ireland, Britain and beyond, to participate its next exciting conference, in Dublin on Friday 20th May. The conference is all about how credit union lending can help...
Why is youth important for #cooperatives? And what are our members doing in this regard? We are about to have a glance at the topic of Youth & #Cooperatives with exciting inputs from Austria @raiffeisen_at, Kenya @kuscco and India #ICNW #WWF!
The Scottish Government has introduced a new Cost-of-Living advice website to provide help to those struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
Visit the website here:
https://costofliving.campaign.gov.scot/
#Costofliving #Costoflivingsupport #Financialwellbeing #Costoflivingcrisis
Finance Minister @conormurphysf today met with CEO David Malone and Martin Fisher from @creditunionie to discuss the important role credit unions play in local communities here.
Great to see engagement between @creditunionie and @conormurphysf. May this be the first of many meetings with Ministers in N Ireland to ensure credit unions get the support they need to continue providing excellent service to their members across NI #creditunions #communities https://twitter.com/creditunionie/status/1577335065981468672
@creditunionie CEO David Malone & NI Manager Martin Fisher met with the Finance Minister @conormurphysf today to discuss the crucial role that credit unions play in local communities throughout NI & to explore opportunities for further support for the credit union movement https://twitter.com/dptfinance/status/1577304783987286017
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