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The Global Credit Union Podcast

World Council of Credit Unions

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 54

Hear how World Council of Credit Unions engages in advocacy, development and education to champion and grow credit unions and cooperative finance worldwide on our monthly podcast. We'll feature interviews with World Council's diverse array of experts and other credit union professionals from our global membership base.

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Episode 42: Growing Credit Union Financial Inclusion Through WOCCU Global Programs

Season 1 · Episode 42

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 • Duration 15:23

This month’s episode of the podcast focuses on how technical specialists with World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Global Programs' teams are growing financial inclusion through credit unions in developing nations.

Nearly 20 of the specialists gathered in Washington, D.C. in early October for WOCCU’s annual Project Administrators Workshop, or “PAWS”. You’ll hear from more than a dozen voices who are working to bring financial inclusion to last mile credit union members and other vulnerable populations in seven developing nations across Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Hear how they share similar challenges, learn from one another and take that knowledge back to their project countries to further grow the credit union movement.

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Episode 41: A Conversation with New WOCCU Board Chair Michael Lawrence

Season 1 · Episode 41

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 • Duration 26:53

This month on the Global Credit Union Podcast, Michael Lawrence joins us to discuss his new role as Chair of the World Council of Credit Unions' Board of Directors.

Lawrence is the Chief Executive Officer of the Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA), the industry body for Australia’s credit unions, building societies and mutual banks, a position he's served in since December 2017.

He became a WOCCU Director in April 2018, and was elected to serve as Chair of the Board in 2024.

Lawrence has over 30 years experience in financial services, primarily gained with AMP Bank and National Australia Bank.

Michael discusses why he believes WOCCU's biggest asset is its strength in membership, especially when it comes to advocating for credit unions in front of international financial standard setting bodies, such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

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Episode 32: How World Council Expanded the Relevance of Credit Unions in 2023

Season 1 · Episode 32

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 • Duration 18:16

We wrap up 2023 by taking a look back at how World Council succeeded this year in making credit unions more relevant in key strategic areas, such as climate resilience, digitalization and the financial inclusion of migrants, refugees, women and youth.

Our professionals also talk about how World Council put on a record-setting 2023 World Credit Union Conference, expanded our membership base and scored major advocacy victories on behalf of our members. Plus, we look ahead to what should be another promising year in 2024.

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Episode 31: Growing Membership at WOCCU and Across Our Global Movement

Season 1 · Episode 31

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 • Duration 15:56

Thom Belekevich, World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Director of Member Services, helped open the door of WOCCU membership to more credit union associations, and even some individual credit unions for the first time in 2023. He joins the podcast on Episode 31 to talk about the specific changes to our membership categories and why they should enrich our organization even more moving forward. Anyone interested in learning more about membership with World Council can email Thom at tbelekevich@woccu.org.

Thom also led the data collection for World Council’s 2022 Statistical Report, which shows the global credit union movement is now more than 400 million members strong. We discuss where that growth is occurring and why.

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Episode 30: 75 Years of International Credit Union Day

Season 1 · Episode 30

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 • Duration 12:51

This month, we are taking time to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of International Credit Union Day, celebrated on October 19, 2023.

Each year since 1948 our global movement has taken time out on the third Thursday of October to celebrate the spirit people helping people. ICU Day, as its commonly known, is recognized to reflect upon the credit union movement's history, promote its achievements, recognize hard work and share member experiences.

The ultimate goal is to raise awareness about the tremendous work that credit unions and other financial cooperatives are doing around the world and give members the opportunity to get more engaged.

But how did we get to the point we are celebrating a 75th anniversary? We take a look back at the origins of not just International Credit Union Day, but the entire credit union movement. We'll also hear what this annual celebration means to so many credit union professionals around the globe. Please enjoy this special edition of The Global Credit Union Podcast!

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Episode 29: GWLN 2023 Empowerment Grant Winners

Season 1 · Episode 29

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 • Duration 20:15

Chimgee Nergui, Partnership Specialist at the Mongolian National Confederation of Credit Unions, and Violet Ndungu, CEO of Muki SACCO in Kenya, are the Global Women’s Leadership Network’s (GWLN) 2023 Empowerment Grant recipients. Both women join the program this month to discuss being awarded $10,000 each to implement projects aimed at helping rural farmers and agricultural producers earn more income—and do it in a more climate resilient way—through credit unions.

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Episode 28: Meet the First WOCCU Board Observers

Season 1 · Episode 28

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 • Duration 24:29

Eleonora Zgonjanin Petrovikj, CEO of FULM Savings House (North Macedonia) and Patrick Rico, External Affairs Manager at ACDI Multipurpose Cooperative (Philippines), join the podcast to discuss being recipients of the inaugural 2023 WOCCU Fellowship. WOCCU in April launched the first Fellowship nominations to encourage credit union leaders under the age of 40 and women of any age to apply to serve as “observers” on the WOCCU Board of Directors.

Zgonjanin and Rico were selected from a pool of 52 applicants from 12 countries. They will attend and participate in three WOCCU Board meetings over a one-year period, beginning in fall of 2023. Their travel expenses, including airfare, hotel and local transportation, will be covered by WOCCU, including registration to attend the 2024 World Credit Union Conference.

As observers, they will receive all material information provided to members of the Board but will not have formal voting rights during the Board of Directors’ meetings. They will also receive mentorship from members of the WOCCU Board, or from members of the WOCCU or Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions’ staff.

Learn what they bring to the table and what they hope to accomplish over the next year as they look to lay the foundation for future WOCCU Board Observers to follow.

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Episode 27: Growing Credit Union SME Lending Through the USAID-CDP/WOCCU TIFI Project

Season 1 · Episode 27

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 • Duration 37:03

Herpin Jateng, Acting Chief of Party for the USAID Cooperative Development Program (CDP)/World Council of Credit Unions' Technology and Innovation for Financial Inclusion (TIFI) Project, is the featured guest on Episode 27. He discusses how the TIFI Project has worked to grow small-and-medium enterprise (SME) lending efforts at credit unions in three African countries: Kenya, Burkina Faso and Senegal.

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Episode 26: A Preview of the 2023 World Credit Union Conference

Season 1 · Episode 26

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 • Duration 34:41

Brian Harris, President and CEO of Interior Savings Credit Union in Vancouver, Canada—home to next month’s 2023 World Credit Union Conference—joins the podcast to talk about the vibrant city and all it has to offer the more than 3,000 credit union professionals who will be converging on it from July 23-26.

Plus, with Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions and its Global Women’s Leadership Network (GWLN) and WYCUP programs hosting more events in conjunction with a World Credit Union Conference than ever before, Mike Reuter, Executive Director of the Worldwide Foundation, joins GWLN Director Lena Giakoumopoulos and WYCUP Manager Ari Farrell to preview those activities.

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Episode 25: How 3 Years of Success Led to an Extension of the USAID/WOCCU Economic Inclusion Project

Season 1 · Episode 25

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 • Duration 19:41

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in May 2023 extended the flagship project of its Venezuela Regional Response Program through May 2026, awarding $14 million to World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) to continue implementation of the Economic Inclusion Project (EIP) in Peru and Ecuador on a much larger scale.

Abby Cohen, WOCCU Program Manager for Latin America, and Oscar Guzman, Chief of Party for the Economic Inclusion Project, join the podcast to discuss EIP's successful first phase, and what they hope to add as new objectives in phase two of the Project.

Launched in June 2020, the first phase of the Economic Inclusion Project helped Venezuelan migrants and vulnerable local residents in Lima, Peru, and Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador, achieve socioeconomic security by gaining greater access to financial products and services, entrepreneurship and employment programs, and services focused on the prevention of gender-based violence.

Those objectives will continue to be a focus over the next three years, but phase two of EIP will also prioritize:

More programs and strategies that allow for the inclusion of youth and LGBTQI+ communities.
Capacity-building for credit unions and other local organizations.
Climate change adaptation and mitigation through the promotion of green entrepreneurial businesses, jobs and financial products.

You can read more about the Economic Inclusion Project here.

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