8th December 2025 - Credit Connect

FCA looks to boost growth of Credit Unions and Building Societies

8th December 2025 Consumer Lending |

A new report from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) looks to promote the growth of the mutuals sector, which includes customer or worker-owned organisations and credit unions. The FCA’s report offers a series of recommendations aimed at encouraging Credit Unions to expand and to offer more services. Credit Unions serve 2 million members and hold…

Rate of child poverty set to fall for the first time in nine years

8th December 2025 Arrears and Recoveries | #child poverty

The package of measures announced in the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy – including the abolition of the two-child limit on benefit support and an expanded Free School Meals offer – will result in child poverty rates falling in 2026-27, the first time in nine years (outside the pandemic), according to new analysis by the Resolution…

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FCA looks to boost growth of Credit Unions and Building Societies

Rate of child poverty set to fall for the first time in nine years

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