{"id":362150,"date":"2026-03-24T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:29:14","slug":"clare-credit-union-says-borrowers-flocking-to-its-service-amid-record-borrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362150\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Credit Union Says Borrowers Flocking To Its Service Amid Record Borrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Clare credit union says the one-to-one offering of its service is contributing to record levels of borrowing here.<\/p>\n<p>The finance provider has now issued close to a total of \u20ac1 billion in home loans and has granted over 100,000 personal loans in the last quarter.<\/p>\n<p>A recently-formed alliance between 80 credit unions has introduced a standardised mortgage offering, with a 3.85% variable rate capped at 4.4%, over a three-year term.<\/p>\n<p>St. Francis Credit Union CEO Louis Fay says community-focused lending is becoming more appealing to customers.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Clare credit union says the one-to-one offering of its service is contributing to record levels of borrowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-362150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}