He said the measures were intended to "support and enable growth of co-operative and credit unions".

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Goldman Sachs showed a typical tin ear by withdrawing its sponsorship of a fund-raiser for a credit union (financial co-operative) on November 3rd because it planned to honour Occupy Wall Street.

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The latest attack caused a three-day service outage at the bank - also called the National Agricultural Co-operative Federation - and caused the records of some credit card customers to be deleted.

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That means an account in either a bank, a credit union, a co-operative, post office or a microfinance institution, according to a recent study by the World Bank.

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The credit union, which is a co-operative owned and controlled by members, offers financial services to anyone living or working in Surrey or the London borough of Kingston.

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