Good Local Economics

Jennifer Tankard kicks off a series of articles from members of the Community Investment Coalition explaining why it’s time for a revolution in community finance

We are seeing a revolution in the way that people use financial services. For years people have relied on a combination of cash, cheques and directs debits to manage their money, using one bank to manage current, savings and mortgage accounts and increasingly, because of bundling, taking out insurance with the same firm.

I’ve just left Regen 2014, held in Liverpool’s Stanley Dock, part of the government’s International Festival for Business.