We are pleased to announce that it is now possible to register online for the International Summit of Cooperatives, which will take place this fall, from October 8–11 in Quebec City, Canada. All you have to do is go to the registration page, which contains various information and a button you can click on to access the online registration form for the 2012 Summit and the Imagine 2012 conference on cooperative economics taking place on October 6 and 7. You can also use this form to register ...

Credit unions around the country have been using a mixture of increased borrower education, a wide variety of mortgage loan products and different loan strategies to help their members qualify for mortgages, industry executives explained. One example of this trend is the 162,000-member, $1.41 million UW Credit Union, headquartered in Madison, Wis. Having a wider variety of mortgage products helps credit unions assist members in overcoming their individual challenges when seeking a mortgage ...

THE Co-operative Group has announced plans to merge three existing staff pension schemes and end all final salary pensions from April 5 this year. As a result, 22,000 participating employees working for the Co-op Bank, CIS and the Group will face a cut in their retirement income. However spokesman Nick Eyre said the new defined pension scheme would be more equitable and progressive than the current arrangements and insisted that the changes were needed to protect the long-term sustainability ...