by Brigene Litchfield | Nov 25, 2025 | Featured, News & Updates, Past Events
Swoboda Research Centre hosted its most recent conference, ‘Leading Innovation’, on 21st November 2025 at The Royal Liver Building, Liverpool. The event brought together over 140 delegates to discuss the evolving role of credit unions in Ireland and Great Britain,...
by Nick Money | Jul 25, 2025 | News & Updates, United Vision
The United Vision project has launched a landmark research survey that’s all about the future of credit unions across Britain. The project is being delivered by Swoboda and the New Economics Foundation, and we want to hear from as many credit union people as possible...
by Nick Money | Jul 24, 2025 | Featured, News & Updates
Credit unions have long claimed to operate differently from traditional banks. Over a century ago, Alphonse Desjardins described them as economic expressions of a high social ideal—not profit-driven institutions. This paper asks whether that distinction still holds...
by Nick Money | Mar 29, 2024 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series
More ‘Reflections’! Swoboda is delighted to be releasing a new paper on The Co-operative Bank: a case study on the Co-operative Difference. The author of our latest Reflections paper is Barry Clavin, a member of the team that built The Co-operative Bank’s innovative...
