The trend of state leagues consolidating continues as credit unionsin Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island vote this month todetermine whether to merge their trade associations.

Throughout 2014, the boards of the Massachusetts Credit UnionLeague, the New Hampshire Credit Union League and Credit UnionAssociation of Rhode Island have been working on a merger frameworkto officially consolidate the three organizations, Paul Gentile, president/CEO of the three trade groups,said.

“The merged league will be called the Cooperative Credit UnionAssociation,” he said. “We believe there are great synergies andgreat opportunity by bringing these three associations together andnow is the right time to so.”