Talk:Financial practices and instruments

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Question to Community of Practice

The information on financial practices and instruments that was found in the selected EU-funded projects was limited. Do you know of or have experience with examples of alternative financial practices or instruments? Karlijn Schipper (talk) 11:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

    • Here is a nice example of a local currency:

http://brixtonpound.org/

    • Possibly not relevant as they had no idea where the debt was that they were buying, but I really like this project where they bought debt at the kind of low prices banks do and wrote it off:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/23/hoe-street-central-bank-walthamstow-london-debt

    • I appreciate it's nothing new but would credit unions be relevant here? EmmaErwin (talk) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)