LIMA, Peru—The World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Economic Inclusion Project (EIP) provided financial education to more than 5,000 people in Peru and Ecuador during several Global Money Week 2022 activities.
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NAIROBI, Kenya—Safaricom’s mobile money service M-Pesa has crossed 30 million customers using the service every month in Kenya.
MEXICO CITY—Mexico might soon become the next country to follow El Salvador’s footsteps and grant Bitcoin legal tender status in its jurisdiction.
TORONTO–Ontario is seeking to modernize the framework under which credit unions and caisses populaires operate with a goal of better serving communities, according to a new report.
MOSCOW—Sberbank said it’s looking at the possibility of issuing cards using Russian payments system Mir and China’s UnionPay after Visa Inc. and Mastercard suspended operations following the invasion of Ukraine.
DUBLIN, Ireland–Ireland’s credit unions are calling on the government to remove the “handcuffs” that limit their ability to make mortgage loans
TIGARD, Ore.–As Russian troops attack the city, the in-laws of one credit union CIO here are trapped in Kyiv, while more than a dozen Oregon credit unions have raised $67,000 to date to help people in the country.
MADISON, Wis.—The Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions’ Global Women’s Leadership Network (GWLN) is urging women in credit unions to apply for the 2022 GWLN Scholarship.
LOS ANGELES–California Credit Union is partnering with the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions to raise “urgently needed” aid for Ukraine by offering a $100,000 donation match for the organization’s Ukrainian Credit Union Displacement Fund.
MADISON, Wis.—The Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions (WFCU) is reporting it has collected more than $115,000 to date in donations to its Ukrainian Credit Union Displacement Fund.