Events
2025
Insights into Common Issues in Credit Unions
22 May 2025
We will be presenting on behalf of ABCUL. From our Internal Audit work we have identified a number of issues which are common among many Credit Unions. Steven Cunningham and Daniel Arrowsmith of Alexander Sloan will highlight the key issues we have found in a range of different areas of credit union operations. As this is an ABCUL course it is only available to ABCUL members who can register using the following link.
2024
2023
Past Event: Internal Audit & Controls
22 February 2023
Steven Cunningham will be presenting a webinar on internal audit and controls for ABCUL members. Click here for link.
2022
Past Events: Anti-Money Laundering
10 September 2022
Daniel Arrowsmith of Alexander Sloan will be presenting at the East & West Forum on Money Laundering on 10 September. Forum members should contact the forum for more inforamtion.
Past Events: Operational Resilience
20 April 2022
This webinar will look at the PRA and FCA’s recommended approach to operational resilience and go over the steps that Credit Union’s should follow to implement an operational resilience system.
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Past Events: Introduction to Risk Management
29 March 2022
This webinar will provide an introduction to Credit Union Risk Management. Alexander Sloan have assisted a number of Credit Union’s implement risk management frameworks, register and appetite statements and this course looks at the content of each.
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2020
Past Events: Credit Union & Covid19 Challenges
Online: 14 May 2020
The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC), along with some of Scotland’s’ top business leaders will be hosting a series of free 60-minute webinars to provide an opportunity for attendees to understand and ask questions about topics which will help businesses prepare to survive in this unprecedented time. This webinar focused on the challenges facing credit unions in Scotland during the current COVID-19 crisis and beyond.
Speakers on this webinar included
- Steven Cunningham, Partner at Alexander Sloan who will discuss the recent COVID 19 Guidance from the Prudential Regulation Authority
- Alastair Davis, Chief Executive at Social Investment Scotland (SIS) who will provide an update on the Scottish Government’s £10m Credit Union Investment Fund, initially providing £2m of resilience support for credit union liquidity.
- Niall Alexander, Affordable Credit Associate at Carnegie UK Trust who will discuss how COVID is impacting on decisions around lending and some of the additional factors credit unions should be considering
- Declan Doyle, Senior Ethical Hacker at the SBRC who will provide an update on the ongoing risk posed by cybercrime from a financial perspective
Click on SBRC logo for a link to a recording
Past Event: ABCUL Conference
Manchester: 13 March 2020
We will be attending the 2020 ABCUL Conference in Manchester and presenting on Good Practice in Credit Union Accounting.