Category: News

Wednesday 30 June. A £1bn Regional Growth Fund will support communities at risk of being affected by government spending cuts, while Local Enterprise Partnerships are set to replace RDAs. Continue reading

Tuesday 15 June. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today published the final report of its review of the £7.5 billion high-cost credit sector, which includes doorstep lenders, pawnbrokers and pay day loan companies. Continue reading

Friday 11 June 2010. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, has asked the Financial Inclusion Taskforce to convene to help advise the government. Continue reading

Wednesday 9 June. The Future of Banking Group Commission, set up by the consumer group Which?, has today published a report calling for ‘profound reform’ of the UK banking system. Continue reading

Thursday 29 April 2009. The cdfa is a founding member of the Better Banking Campaign. This is our message to the party leaders ahead of the general election. Continue reading

The Community Development Finance Association (cdfa) has welcomed a proposal to ensure that banks help to provide more services to people on low incomes, contained in the Budget report. Continue reading

The cdfa has welcomed a new government report that calls for continued public sector support for the UK’s community development finance institutions Continue reading

The Better Banking campaign, of which cdfa is a founding member, has today called on banks to offer their services to millions of people who are excluded from using them Continue reading

As new figures suggest that nearly 60% of small businesses were refused credit by their bank in the last year, the cdfa is calling on the Government to increase its investment in CDFIs to help businesses in the most disadvantaged communities. Continue reading

I’m delighted to say that we feature on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website today with an article responding to the New Economics Foundation’s new report, I.O.U.K Continue reading