Understanding the role credit unions can play in tackling the protection gap

Understanding the role credit unions can play in tackling the protection gap
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The Aviva Foundation, in partnership with Fair4All Finance, KPMG and the Swoboda Research Centre, undertook research to explore what potential role credit unions could play in the provision of different kinds of insurance products to their members.

As part of this research we spoke to credit union members and leaders, and insurers, to better understand the opportunities and barriers in order to inform credit unions and the insurance sector on how to tackle the ‘protection gap’ – where people have inadequate insurance coverage.

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