Economic Development

How to… rebuild the UK’s stakeholder banking sector

Britain led the world in developing mutual financial institutions and public savings banks, but now its local banking sector pales in comparison to that of the US and Germany. Tony Greenham asks what the UK learn from other countries in rebuilding its stakeholder banks?

In September 2011, I invited Niclaus Bergmann to speak at a UK conference on local banking. He is the director of the German Savings Banks Foundation for International Co-operation, and I wanted our delegates to get the chance to hear first-hand about the 430 local banks, known as Sparkassen, that make up the backbone of the German banking system.

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Paving the way for new models of local finance

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How to… create a local lending hub

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East London: Who’s gained from its growth?

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Will council banks happen?

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How to… create an entrepreneurial city

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Must we all become Corporate Homo-erectus?

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Chancellor twists in autumn statement pontoon

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Addressing poverty? It’s economic development, stupid!

Even having a job is no guarantee you won’t slip into poverty. Recent evidence from New Policy Institute (NPI), commissioned by Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), tells the latest story of poverty in the UK – ‘in work’ poverty is on the rise. The story of poverty in the UK is a lengthy complicated volume, with no end in sight.