Blogs1 - 4 of 4 recent posts for tag:"financial exclusion"
29
Sep
2009
Brown is right: the Post Office can become a community bank

58 days ago by Lindsay Mackie

Lindsay Mackie is a consultant at nef. She is leading nef’s post office campaign and works on Clone Town and Ghost Town Britain. The Prime Minister’s commitment to bringing Post Office banking into the heart of communities, and to giving the Post Office a much greater role in the economy, is a brill ...

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29
Aug
2009
Access must be part of banking equation

89 days ago by progressive-economy@tasc

Michael Taft: With all the debates over the crucial issues of NAMA, bank recapitalisation, purging impaired assets, etc. – it is sometimes easy to forget that these are instrumental; that we are not repairing broken banks for the sake of it (as if their dereliction constituted an environmental eyeso ...

progressive-economy@tasc - progressive-economy.ie · Rank: 12,506 · 27 references

24
Aug
2009
funny money in the East End: or, community languages – a step too far?

94 days ago by msbaroque

Some of you may remember how excited we were here in Baroque Mansions over the Facebook language option of “English (Pirate).” The Baroque Facebook was set on Pirate for months. (I know: lame. I just never got tired of it.) Well, now an ATM operator in the East End of London is introducing a similar ...

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06
Aug
2009
Financial exclusion - a lucrative business for some

112 days ago by progressive-economy@tasc

Paula Clancy: Last December, TASC organised a seminar on financial exclusion. The day before, Sean Fitzpatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish Bank following revelations that, over a period of eight years to 2007, he had temporarily transferred loans with Anglo Irish Bank to another bank. Earlie ...

progressive-economy@tasc - progressive-economy.ie · Rank: 12,506 · 27 references