This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial

This book offers a comparative analysis of credit cooperative systems across 23 European countries. Cooperative banking has an important place in the financial,

This book investigates the main features of the evolution of the co-operative banking model in European countries, using 'country case-study' analysis. Structur

A midst stormy waters, financial systems develop and evolve. New institutional forms and instruments are invented and put into use. Some of them turn out to be

The cooperative banks’ business model is unique in the financial market. It is featured by democratic foundations (one-head-one-vote principle), proximity to