PORTLAND, Ore. - In what would be the largest natural person credit union merger ever, the $1.4 billion Portland Teachers Credit Union and the $650 million Oregon Community Credit Union are discussing a potential merger. As of press time, nothing definitive had been completed. At this point the two boards...

SAN DIEGO - California Coast Credit Union has created a $100,000 relief fund for members who lost their homes in the recent southern California wildfires. "The tragedy of these devastating wildfires has touched all of us in San Diego in some way," said CCCU President/CEO Jim McPheters. "We are here...

VANCOUVER, Wash. - A slim majority of 414 votes out of the almost 10,000 cast was enough to move the $600 million Columbia Credit Union from being a state chartered credit union to being a state chartered mutual thrift bank. The credit union has 59,000 members. Columbia is the 22nd...

TAMPA, Fla. - After clearing regulatory hurdles from the Office of Thrift Supervision in June, the industry's first nationally-chartered trust company recently received the final nod from another regulator to officially open for business. MEMBERS Trust Co., the newly-formed national trust cooperative providing trust services to credit union members, officially...