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Best Philadelphia Credit Unions

The list of Best Philadelphia Credit Unions is formulated from the 57 different CUs that have made this City of Brotherly Love their home. The largest is the Police & Fire Federal Credit Union 160,579 members and the smallest being the University House Federal Credit Union with only 55 members. The PFCU is the second [...]

Banks and Credit Unions

Financial institutions like banks and credit unions typically provide the same kinds of product and services. In both financial institutions, you can open a checking account, buy a certificate of deposit and get a loan, among others. Though these two financial institutions share many common similarities, the way each is set up is quite different. [...]

Best Credit Unions

The best credit unions are judged by their membership and total assets. The top three of both lists are the same. Number one is the Navy Federal Credit Union from Merrifield, Virginia with $36.4 billion in assets, 3,194,292 members, and a loan to share ratio of 110.16%. In second place is the State Employees Credit [...]

Best Pennsylvania Credit Unions

The Best Pennsylvania Credit Unions are hard to choose with over 200 of them operating in this state. The winner of the Peoples Paper Award for 2009 was the Philadelphia Federal Credit Union. This CU has been operating since 1951. Today they have over 100,000 members with an excess of $750 million in assets. To [...]

Federally Insured Credit Unions

Many credit unions are federally insured credit unions. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the federal agency that administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF). The NCUSIF, like the FDIC’s Deposit Insurance Fund, is a federal insurance fund backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. As of November [...]