WOCCU Board Chair Michael Lawrence (Australia) promoted International Advocacy as job one for the organization in a July 14 speech that detailed a new three-year strategy for the organization at the 2025 World Credit Union Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
WCUC 2025 also featured a record seven International Advocacy breakout sessions. Paul Andrews and Erin O'Hern spoke with dozens of experts on a wide-ranging list of topics. You can read about many of those sessions and the topics they discussed on the WCUC 2025 Blog.
As more credit unions embrace powerful AI tools, they face a critical challenge: ensuring AI deployment aligns with their foundational member-focused mission and ethical standards. Paul Andrews wrote about that in his latest article for CUInsight.
Paul Andrews and Erin O'Hern took center stage at the 2025 World Credit Union Conference, hosting seven breakout sessions on international advocacy and regulatory topics. Mike Lawson recapped those sessions with them in an interview for CU Broadcast.
Paul and Erin are gearing up to join the European Network of Credit Unions (ENCU) for a trip to Brussels this fall, where they will engage with representatives of the European Union to push for more proportional regulations for EU credit union systems.
Erin O'Hern in September sat on a panel at the Iowa Credit Union Convention where she discussed regulatory topics ranging from artificial intelligence, stablecoin, cyberfraud and more. It was a great way to give representatives from one of the largest U.S. state credit union movements a look at why our international advocacy matters at the local level.
With a vast amount of regulatory uncertainty resulting from an unprecedented number of newly elected officials across the globe—2025 will be a critical year for credit union advocacy worldwide. That is the overriding theme of WOCCU International Advocacy's 2025 Global Regulatory Update.
The Model Law for Credit Unions provides a sample legislative framework to movement leaders, legislators, regulators and others in preparing and seeking approval of laws that will strengthen the safety and soundness of credit unions without imposing unreasonable regulatory burdens.