Credit Union in Raleigh

• SECU Launches Firm to Manage Foreclosed Properties

  By David Morrison  |  February 27, 2013

  The second-largest credit union in the nation has opened a firm to help it manage real estate on its books in the wake of the Great Recession.

• SECU Launches Life Insurance Company

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  January 18, 2013

  A $25 million capital investment from SECU members will provide the initial funding for the organization, SECU said.

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  SECU Foundation in $2 Million Match for Hospital Home

  By Marc Rapport  |  January 14, 2013

  The SECU Foundation has announced a $2 million challenge grant to build the new SECU Family House at a Wilmington, N.C., hospital.

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  8 Life Stage-Appropriate Credit Union Programs

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  December 28, 2012

  These life stage-appropriate programs target their demographic with incentives, from treasure chest prizes to loan discounts to local merchant coupons.

• Examiners Moved Out From the Shadows

  By Heather Anderson  |  December 19, 2012

  The list is long on 2012 news and actions emanating from the NCUA: CUSO loan participations rules, an easier op-in process for low income credit union designation, a 6.1% increase in the agency’s budget for the next fiscal year and the October departure of Gigi Hyland.

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  Credit Unions Stay Nonpartisan to Register Voters

  By Eileen Courter  |  November 14, 2012

  If a credit union offers voter registration and the law doesn’t allow the registrars to hand out literature from a candidate who’s a good friend of credit unions, for example, why bother?

• SECU Hosts Chinese Bank Visitors in Raleigh

  By Peter Strozniak  |  November 12, 2012

  Representatives were from four state-owned commercial banks, interested in learning about not-for-profit cooperative financial institutions.

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  College Savings Plan Hits $1 Billion in North Carolina

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 17, 2012

  Twenty-five dollars may not seem like a lot of money, but those small investments over the years have helped the North Carolina’s National College Savings Program’s NC 529 Plans grow to more than $1 billion.

• Free Checking More Prevalent at Credit Unions: Bankrate

  By Marc Rapport  |  August 13, 2012

  Survey finds free checking with no minimum balance 72% of largest credit unions compared with 45% of banks.

• SECU Helps North Carolina Students Through $25 Million Student Loan Purchase

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  June 4, 2012

  Credit union will buy up to $25 million in federally guaranteed student loans from state agency in program that gives defaulters another chance.