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Canadian co-op community programme open for applications

Since 2015, Federated Co-operatives Limited has provided $10.5m in capital funding

Desjardins data breach settlement pre-approved by Superior Court of Quebec

A total of 4.2 million members and 137,000 business clients were affected by the 2019 data…

UK co-ops support women co-operators in India through pandemic rebuild

They collectively raised £100,000 last year in response to the spread of the Delta variant in…

Co-ops in rural America to benefit from USDA funding

The funds aim to move rural America from an extraction economy to a circular economy

Holding onto the co-op identity means we “don’t lose ourselves”

Jean-Louis Bancel, president of CoopFR and Crédit Coopératif, on the difference the co-op identity can make

The co-op identity should express how inclusive co-ops are, says Doug O’Brien

We caught up with him at the World Cooperative Congress in Seoul, the Republic of Korea

US National Cooperative Bank reports $1.65bn in new loan originations for 2021

Some of the funding provided went to co-operatives

Credit unions prepare to celebrate Credit Union Youth Month in the US

CUNA has developed a range of youth month promotional materials for the use of credit unions

Co-op identity: ‘With mission and purpose we can move mountains’

A conversation with Martin Lowery and Alexandra Wilson

REI employees move to unionise in Manhattan

The co-op’s bosses say a union is not “needed or beneficial”

Credit unions and small FSIs under increased cybersecurity pressure

More credit unions in the US and UK have been taking steps to minimise risks

US National Cooperative Bank’s John Holdsclaw calls for more support for CDFIs

The board chair of the CDFI Coalition testified in a federal government hearing last week