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Belligerent cities need to strike for a new deal

We need to see more belligerent cities. A belligerence which tells truth to power ...

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How to… rebuild the UK’s stakeholder banking sector

Britain led the world in developing mutual financial institutions and public savings banks, but now ...

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Paving the way for new models of local finance

Baroness Susan Kramer was one of several peers who fought a successful battle to amend ...

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How to… create a local lending hub

The rapid expansion of the Fredericks Foundation couldn’t have come at a better time for ...

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East London: Who’s gained from its growth?

New data maps the rapid growth in east London since 2001. But with evidence that ...

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Will council banks happen?

Recent attempts by UK councils to launch banks have ended in failure. But with entry ...

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Must we all become Corporate Homo-erectus?

What's novel for us is the pace and nature of these changes, in terms of ...

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Chancellor twists in autumn statement pontoon

The chancellor has twisted, but it may come too late to save the government’s economic ...

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Addressing poverty? It’s economic development, stupid!

For all the evidence on poverty and talk around how horrific it is, we need ...

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Do local currencies work?

Six years on from its launch, a local currency in the United States continues to ...