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Credit Union | |
Industry | Financial services |
Founded | 1950 |
Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario [1] |
Key people | Joel Lalonde, President & CEO Tanya Gracie, Chair of the Board of Directors Melissa Mackenzie, Chief Financial Officer |
Products | Checking Accounts Savings Accounts Insurance Mortgages Investment Bank Asset-Based Lending Consumer finance |
Revenue | |
Total assets | |
Website | https://www.yourcu.com/Personal/ |
Your Credit Union (YourCU.com) is a credit union in Ontario, Canada mainly serving members across the Ottawa-Carleton, [2] Cornwall, [3] and rural Eastern Ontario regions. It is incorporated under the Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires Act, 1994, and is a member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario [4] and of Central 1 Credit Union.
A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, controlled by its members and operated on the principle of people helping people, providing its members credit at competitive rates as well as other financial services.
Eastern Ontario is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River. It shares water boundaries with Quebec to the north and New York State to the east and south, as well as a small land boundary with the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region of Quebec to the east.
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YourCU has six branches: three in Ottawa and three in Cornwall. The Credit Union's headquarters are located at 14 Chamberlain Ave, Ottawa, Ontario.
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec; the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). As of 2016, Ottawa had a city population of 934,243 and a metropolitan population of 1,323,783 making it the fourth-largest city and the fifth-largest CMA in Canada. In June 2019, the City of Ottawa estimated it had surpassed a population of 1 million.
Your Credit Union became an open bond financial institution in 2009, allowing anyone to become a member. As at September 30, 2018, there were 12,354 members [5] of the Credit Union with over C$326 million [6] in assets.
As a condition of membership, each member is required under the by-laws to maintain a minimum of one share of the Credit Union, at a value of $5 per share. Members under the age of 18 are not required to purchase membership shares. The shares are redeemable at their paid-up amount when the member withdraws from membership. All members are eligible for exercising their right to vote for a democratically elected Board of Directors at the annual general meeting.
Your Credit Union comprises five groups: the Education Group, the Municipal Group, the Ottawa Citizen Group, the United Counties Education Group, and the Howard Smith Group. [7]
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Servus Credit Union is a member-owned, community-based financial institution based in Edmonton, Alberta, and in 2015 became the second largest credit union in Canada and the largest credit union in Alberta. Servus has around 380,000 members who are served by close to 2,400 employees from 102 locations in 59 communities across Alberta and as of 2016 has $13.2 billion in assets under its administration.
SafeAmerica Credit Union is a 450 million dollar, privately insured, state chartered 35,000 member, natural person credit union operating from four public and two company branches in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The headquarters are in Pleasanton, California.
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Del-One is a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Dover, Delaware and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). Del-One is the second largest credit union in Delaware in assets. As of January 2011, Del-One had $272 million in assets, serving over 40,000 members, and 7 branches. Member deposits up to $500,000 in Del-One are insured by $250,000 through the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, and an additional $250,000 through Excess Share Insurance.
Alliant Credit Union is a member-owned financial cooperative headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Alliant provides exclusive benefits to employees, retirees, and members of qualifying organizations and their family members; any member of the Foster Care to Success; and individuals who live or work in a qualifying community and their family members. Founded in 1935, Alliant is the eighth largest credit union by asset size in the United States with $9.7 billion USD in assets, and serves over 385,000 members worldwide.
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