Labour has announced they will give cooperatives and mutually-owned companies the opportunity to operate Britain’s railways, in a “democratic renewal” for a customer driven industry. In...
Anna Laycock, ethics manager at Ecology Building Society, reflects on recent media criticism of financial mutuals. Reading the headlines this weekend, you’d have been forgiven for...
The Co-operative Bank was given “winks and nods” by politicians to finalise deals that ultimately led to its near collapse, according to the former chairman of...
The Co-operative Bank has assured its customers, including some of the UK’s leading charities, that it will not to vacate its ethical principles as it prepares...
Once seen as the leading ethical banking option, the Co-operative Bank has endured a tough 12 months after financing problems led to it unveiling a £1.5...
The Co-operative Group may no longer keep a majority stake when the Co-op Bank floats on the stock market, with two hedge funds reportedly poised to...
Building societies and other customer-owned lenders and deposit takers, known as mutuals, are continuing to play an active role in a mortgage market that is showing...
Ed Mayo, secretary-general of trade body Co-operatives UK, gets to the bottom of whether the Co-operative Bank’s £1.5 billion rescue plan will spell an end to...
After helping launch peer-to-peer lending site Zopa 10 years ago, Bruce Davis is now co-founder of renewable energy platform Abundance Generation. Here, in an extract from...
“Any other business?” asked Ecology Building Society chair Malcolm Lynch, obligatorily, at the end of the organisation’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Leeds last month. A...
In the UK, there are nearly 18m joint accounts, representing over a third of all accounts open. But do you and your partner really love the...
A group of high-profile investors has called for a number of FTSE 350-listed companies that have performed poorly in reducing carbon in the past, to implement...