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Community mutual bank for Wales is on track for launch this year

Minister Ken Skates says the community bank will help to tackle financial and digital exclusion

Preston Council agrees to join Liverpool and Wirral on regional mutual bank

The North West Mutual Bank will help the authority develop its community wealth building initiative

Co-op and mutual insurers more likely to have gender-diverse senior leadership, says ICMIF

Of ICMIF’s 201 member organisations, 49 have a female CEO at the head of the organisation

Co-op Bank reports reduced loss of £103.7m

The Bank, which is no longer owned by the Co-op Group but maintains links to the…

MPs continue their inquiry into LV= demutualisation

Gareth Thomas, Labour/Co-op MP and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Mutuals Group, has written to buyer…

MP writes to LV= chief executive for answers on its demutualisation

Gareth Thomas MP, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mutuals, has invited the business's CEO…

US National Cooperative Bank granted over $1.5bn in loans in 2020

Based in Arlington, USA, the bank has been serving the co-operative sector for over 40 years

Top 100 Australian co-ops and mutuals had a turnover of AU$33.9bn in 2019

Two new publications by BCCM look at the state of the sector

Co-op Bank commits £400,000 to co-op development

The Hive co-operative and social enterprise development hub was launched in 2016

Watchdog criticises finance co-op Desjardins over data breach

In response, the credit union giant said it had 'made great strides in information security over…

Co-op Group completes sale of underwriting business

The £185m deal includes a 13-year partnership deal 'to grow the Co-op's insurance footprint'

Stella Creasy tables amendment to ease the creation of mutual banks

The Labour/Co-op MP's change would remove outdated regulatory barriers around withdrawable share capital