Earlier this year at Aston Villa football ground the DWP outlined the details of a project designed to increase credit union membership in the UK by at least a million over the next two years. £35M was to be made available, they said, to bids by consortia of credit unions with an existing membership of at least 120,000. The conditions for bids was the establishment of “back office” support for credit unions as well as cloud based software and increased speed of decision making ar...