The 2012 Summit is honoured to announce two major partners from the cooperative financial sector in France and greater Europe: Crédit Mutuel and Crédit Agricole. Crédit Mutuel and Crédit Agricole are two of the most successful cooperatives on the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) Global 300 list, making their presence at the Summit a welcome and highly anticipated addition. “By partnering with the Summit, both organizations will have the opportunity to demonstrate how their ...

Finnish ICMIF members Tapiola and Local Insurance are to merge and form a mutual financial group called the Local Insurance-Tapiola Group. The merger should be complete by January 2013. The current Managing Director of Tapiola, Juha-Pekka Halmeenmäki, will become Managing Director of the merged organisation and Erkki Moisander, the current Managing Director of Local Insurance, has been appointed President. The current President of the Tapiola Group, Asmo Kalpala, will end his term as ...