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Testing times for Texas electric co-ops a year on from knockout storm

After last year's freeze almost collapsed the grid, new measures have been put in place –…

Canadian co-operators want law change to prevent repeat of MEC demutualisation

'Without any changes to the regulations, we should expect to see other co-ops suffer the same…

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”