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CDFA Manifesto Launch and Innovation Awards event special!

31st Jan 2012 we launch our new vision for Community Finance and hold the 1st CDFA Innovation Awards! Continue reading

Osborne’s Autumn Statement holds great promise for CDFIs

29 November 2011. A £1bn Business Finance Partnership and a national bank/CDFI referral scheme amongst the announcements. Continue reading

Credit Unions to expand their services under new legislation

10 November 2011. Including allowing credit unions to provide services to community groups, attract investment from local businesses. Continue reading

Green and home improvement loans a “growing niche” for CDFIs

2 November 2011. Not just loans to businesses… a new report looks at how CDFIs are operating in the home improvement market Continue reading

European Code of Conduct for microcredit provision published

25 October 2011. Providing recommendations and standards that should foster best practice in the microcredit sector. Continue reading

Battling the legal loan sharks and expanding affordable credit

18 October 2011. A series of articles and research on affordable credit provision and high cost lenders Continue reading

New research paper published on business support

17 October 2011. Interesting BIS commissioned research to understand the barriers to the take up and use of business support in the UK Continue reading

New Ways to Borrow: CDFIs promoted in the Economist

In an article on predatory lending and high cost credit providers published in The Economist last week, CDFIs were described as another option for those seeking microfinance at affordable levels. Continue reading

The Economist: microfinance is not just for poor countries

The “Britain” section of this week’s Economist features community development finance institutions as a useful option for “underbanked” and financially excluded customers, in an article about You can read it here (registration required). What next? Media… Continue reading