Indian-based member of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF), Uplift Mutuals, has launched its first mobile application (app), which will enable the organisation to expand its existing community-owned health microinsurance programme and reach many more previously uninsured urban and rural low-income households. Uplift aims to deliver its entire community-owned model through the new […]
Read MoreNew combined company, Aviso Wealth, will focus on meeting the expanding wealth management needs of credit union members and other partners and clients across the country Desjardins Group and a partnership comprised of Canada’s five provincial credit union centrals (the Centrals) and The CUMIS Group have entered into a definitive agreement to merge the businesses […]
Read MoreICMIF member NTUC Income (Income), Singapore, announced today that it has developed ‘Family Protect’, a unique protection proposition developed with the “sandwiched” generation in mind to enhance the financial security of those who are supporting intergenerational dependants. In a 2015 study on class and social orientations[1], the “sandwiched” generation describes a “social arrangement in which […]
Read MoreDriverless and fully electric vehicles are set to arrive in Western Australia under RAC’s continued plan to trial automated vehicles, making Perth the first city in Australia – and among the very first in the world – to test and experience this type of service. ICMIF member RAC, in partnership with NAVYA and the State […]
Read MoreAriel Guarco, the recently elected President of the International Co-operative Alliance (the Alliance) this week spoke to over 200 delegates at the 25th Annual ICMIF/Americas Conference currently being held in Montevideo, Uruguay. Guarco was one of the speakers in the official conference opening ceremony where he was joined by Georgina Díaz Sánchez (pictured with Guarco), […]
Read MoreAriel Guarco, President of Cooperar, the Co-operative Confederation of Argentina has been elected president of the International Co-operative Alliance. The election took place today, Friday 17 November, at the International Co-operative Alliance’s General Assembly, which has taken place over the course of this week in Malaysia. Guarco received an overwhelming majority of the votes. Guarco […]
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