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Mutual boosted

Fears that the troubled 160-year-old West Bromwich Building Society might be broken up or be forced to merge with another building society have receded.
June 20 2009

MPs back mutuality as solution to banking crisis

It is often said that journalists write the first draft of history. But, when it comes to the UK’s version of the global banking crisis, it is MPs who have produced one of the earliest and most relevant analyses. And our movement should be very grateful that its collective authors — the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee — is chaired by Labour/Co-operative MP John McFall and its membership also includes prominent Labour/Co-op MP Andy Love.
May 23 2009

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• New-look CFS set for August launch after Britannia vote
• All change!
• Budget boosts credit unions
• Britannia members ready to vote on CFS merger plans
• CFS and Britannia to create 'super mutual'

Features:

Ireland’s building societies are teetering on the brink

Something is rotten in the state of Ireland. Specifically, something is very rotten in the Republic’s banks. And, just for once (for good reason), I include the country’s last two building societies within the definition of ‘banks’.
February 04 2009

 

Archbishop backs sector

The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for the expansion of credit unions as a means to help eradicate bad debt and poverty across the UK.
June 23 2008

 

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