by Brigene Litchfield | Dec 9, 2025 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
Purpose without delivery doesn’t move the needle. This Podcast explores some of the key themes emerging from the Swoboda Research Centre’s Conference on innovation, held in Liverpool in November 2025. Free to listen and download here. The podcast includes...
by Nick Money | Oct 16, 2025 | Featured, News & Updates
Very timely on International Credit Union Day #ICUDay2025 that we release this new Talking Credit Unions podcast exploring how credit unions market themselves and whether they should aim to be perceived as banks in some way. This episode follows up on the Centre’s...
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 | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, News & Updates
After many years of insightful and engaging conversations, Chris Smith is stepping down as the host of the popular podcast, Talking Credit Unions, which Swoboda has sponsored since Chris started it in 2020. We and, no doubt, all the listeners are extremely grateful to...
by Nick Money | Mar 11, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates
Just a couple of weeks ago, we remembered pioneering Nora Herlihy from Ireland, and today we look at the life of Luigi Luzzatti – probably less well-known to many British and Irish credit unionists, but an important individual in the development of community and...
