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Country Type Fair Tax Foundation 'immensely impressed' with the bank’s commitment to responsible tax conduct The initiative 'aims to improve understanding of how member-led models support financial resilience, foster trust, and… President, International Cooperative Banking Association (ICBA) and managing director/CEO of the National Federation of State Cooperative… CEO and president, Climbs Life and General Insurance Cooperative Out-going chief executive, Building Societies Association (BSA)...

What does innovation look like in the age of AI and big data? And where do co-ops fit in? According to Cooperatives Europe’s president, Giuseppe Guerini, co-operatives innovate in a different way from other enterprises. “The co-operative business model shows we can do business without destroying,” he told the Global Innovation Coop Summit in Torres Vedras, Portugal, which explored some of the ways co-ops around the world are innovating in sectors like renewable energy, care and technology.

With opinion polls showing Reform in the lead by 10 percentage points, the prospect of a Farage government is a growing worry for the UK’s established parties, and loomed over the Co-operative Party conference, held in London last month. But there was also optimism among conference speakers, particularly government ministers, who argued that the antidote to societal division was more community wealth building.