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Scaling up the UK personal lending CDFI sector : from £20m to £200m in lending by 2027 (2020)
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Dayson, K., Vik, P., & Curtis, J. (2020). Scaling up the UK personal lending CDFI sector : from £20m to £200m in lending by 2027

This report analysed the social and financial performance of the UK personal lending CDFI sector using data for 2014-17. It also discussed the levers and potential for the sector to significantly scale up to provide £200m in annual lending in a ten-y... Read More about Scaling up the UK personal lending CDFI sector : from £20m to £200m in lending by 2027.

What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance (2016)
Journal Article
Vik, P. (2016). What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 37(1), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2016.1263967

Quantitative approaches figure prominently in social accounting and auditing. This is because of the preference among many investors for simple and ostensibly robust and comparative metrics. Social Return on Investment (SROI), which produces a moneti... Read More about What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance.

"The computer says no” : the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960-2010 (2016)
Journal Article
Vik, P. (2016). "The computer says no” : the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960-2010. Business History, 59(2), 231-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2016.1177024

This article examines the role of the British bank branch manager in the context of the transformation of banking since the 1980s and discusses its implications for British banking. The analysis was based on interviews with retired bank managers and... Read More about "The computer says no” : the demise of the traditional bank manager and the depersonalisation of British banking, 1960-2010.