The $554 million NMTW Community Credit Union in Lowell, Mass.,has announced it will change its name to Align Credit Union inSeptember.

Northern Massachusetts Telephone Workers CU was founded in 1922and expanded with a community charter in 2005 that allows it toserve anyone who lives, works or goes to school in communities ineastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.

“First and foremost, our name is truly the only thing that ischanging and we are not being bought out or merging with anotherinstitution,” said Ken Del Rossi, NMTW President and CEO. “I amextremely proud of our telephone worker heritage but I am equallyexcited for this change and what it means for our future.”