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What Is Old – and New – About Credit Union Mergers?

Filene Research Institute digs into some of the less well-known aspects of credit union consolidation.

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Figure 1: New credit unions and credit union exits, 1950 to 2018. Source: Filene Research Institute

Consolidation in the credit union system is no longer simply a trend – it’s a truism. The numbers are so familiar as to risk cliché: From a peak of more than 23,000 in 1969, the number of credit unions dropped to around 5,600 in 2018 – a decrease of 76% – even as the number of members continued to grow alongside system assets. Most of this consolidation was the result of voluntarily mergers, but the vast majority of credit unions that were “merged away” were small, totaling less than 10% of the total credit union system assets. There were over 10,000 credit unions with less than $1 million in assets in 1979 and about 250 in 2018.

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