strategy

Merging credit unions

Context:
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), founded in London in 1895, comprises 242 cooperative organisations active in more than 100 countries. More than 725 million people in the world are members of some sort of cooperatives, whether they are in the banking, agricultural or in insurance businesses. Credit unions worldwide represent assets of $6 trillion, or 17% of the assets of the world's 1,000 largest banks.
Implementation:
Credit unions must band together if they want to compete against commercial banks, delegates at a worldwide conference on banking cooperatives heard. More than 1,000 delegates from 63 countries gathered in Quebec City on 30th August 1999 for a 3-day general assembly of the Geneva-based International Cooperative Alliance.
Claim:
Mergers of credit unions and other types of cooperatives at the national and international levels are necessary just as commercial banks are concentrating and merging their operations. Cooperatives must concentrate, merge and amalgamate to be competitive and efficient.
Broader:
Enabling economic cooperatives
Merging financial institutions
Creating nonprofit financial institutions for sustainable development
Subjects:
Commerce → Credit
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies