by Nick Money | Oct 19, 2021 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
Credit unions in Ireland and Great Britain are seeing potentially harmful gambling behaviour in the financial activity of their members. In Britain, the adoption of open banking in the underwriting process has proved a revelation, providing much more information on...
by Nick Money | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates, Past Events, Welcome
This was CFCFE’s first conference since the social distancing rules in Great Britain and Ireland made in-person attendance possible, so alongside seventy online participants there were fifteen attendees gathered in Manchester. ‘Facing Contemporary...
by Nick Money | Sep 20, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates
Much of CFCFE’s work is focused on what credit unions can do to improve or enhance their organisations to better serve members. A new paper, authored by Ismail Erturk, Senior Lecturer at the Alliance Manchester Business School, takes a more...
by Nick Money | Sep 20, 2021 | News & Updates
It’s conference time again! Booking for the CFCFE Credit Union Conference: Facing Contemporary Challenges, to be held on Friday 24th September, is now open: details and booking here. The conference will open with tributes to Ralph Swoboda, former chair of CFCFE...
by Nick Money | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured, News & Updates
We are very sad to announce to the members and friends of the Centre for Community Finance Europe, and of the credit union movement across the world, that our friend and colleague Ralph Swoboda passed away at home in Dublin in the early hours of Monday morning, 13th...
by Nick Money | Sep 13, 2021 | Audio, Featured, News & Updates
The UK’s Credit Union Foundation launched an initiative in 2019 to to collect and preserve the memories of people involved in setting up and running credit unions before 2000 – the Save and Sound project. Through the use of oral history recordings, Save...
