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This is a partial list of credit unions in the United States.. A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members. [1]
RTP Federal Credit Union in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Credit unions in the United States served 100 million members, comprising 43.7% of the economically active population, in 2014.
A branch of the Coastal Federal Credit Union in Raleigh, North Carolina. A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.They may offer financial services equivalent to those of commercial banks, such as share accounts (savings accounts), share draft accounts (cheque accounts), credit cards, credit, share term certificates (certificates of deposit), and online banking.
Credit unions are not-for-profit financial cooperatives. In the early stages of development of a nation's financial system, unserved and underserved populations had to rely on risky and expensive informal financial services from sources like money lenders, ROSCAs and saving at home.
The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is an American government-backed insurer of credit unions in the United States, one of two agencies that provide deposit insurance to depositors in U.S. depository institutions, the other being the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which insures commercial banks and savings institutions.
Navy Federal Credit Union (or Navy Federal) is an American global credit union headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, chartered and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).
The Credit Union National Association, commonly known as CUNA (pronounced "Cue-Nuh"), was a national trade association for both state- and federally chartered credit unions located in the United States.
This sign, displayed at all insured credit unions, informs members that their savings are insured by the NCUA. In 1970, Congress, approved, and then President Richard M. Nixon signed, Public Law 91-206 [2], creating the National Credit Union Administration as an independent federal financial regulator.