CREDIT UNIONS: Materials on regulation and supervision

Technical guide, Model regulations, and a comparative regulatory matrix by WOCCU (March 2008)

The World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have published (i) a Technical Guide with guidelines for the appropriate regulation and supervision of credit unions; (ii) model regulations for credit union activities; and (iii) a regulatory matrix that compares regulatory requirements for credit unions in 18 different countries. A variety of regulatory issues are covered, such as capital requirements, provisioning, restrictions on lending, auditing, dissolution, and others.

The technical guide is available here.

The model regulations are available here.

The regulations matrix is available here.