Credit Unions - A Changing Environment

Introduction

Credit unions are recognised as non-profit organisations with the principal activities of accepting shares and deposits from members, providing savings facilities and making loans available to their members at reasonable rates of interest. They are considered to be the people's bank of choice and in the past have assisted those who may have found it difficult to get a loan from the larger banking institutions indeed this is a valuable service they still provide today. The larger credit unions are steadily expanding their range of activities from the fundamental facilitation of savings and loans and into the mainstream financial services sector.