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Jamaica. GSB Co-operative Credit Union (previously known as GSB Clerks Co-operative Credit Union), one of the top ten credit unions in Jamaica, was founded in 1944 and registered in 1946. It is open to two groups: public-sector employees (and their families) and members of registered professional groups (and their families).
Canada has a strong co-operative financial services sector, which consists of credit unions (caisses populaires in Quebec and other French speaking regions). At the end of 2001, Canada's credit union sector consisted of 681 credit unions and 914 caisses populaires , with more than 3,600 locations and 4,100 automated teller machines. [45]
A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution. They may offer financial services equivalent to those of commercial banks, such as share accounts ( savings accounts ), share draft accounts ( cheque accounts ), credit cards, credit, share term certificates ( certificates of deposit ), and online banking.
G. GSB Co-operative Credit Union. Categories: Banks of Jamaica. Credit unions by country. Cooperatives in Jamaica. Cooperative banking in North America.
The Co-operative Group has 22 independent consumer co-operatives as corporate members or customer owners, including: Central England Co-operative. Channel Islands Co-operative Society. Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society. East of England Co-operative Society. Heart of England Co-operative Society.
The Co-op Credit Union is a not-for-profit member-owned financial co-operative, based in Manchester and operating throughout the United Kingdom. Thousands of its members all over the UK have access to affordable loans and savings products as well as member offers and financial wellbeing support. Membership is free.
Susu (informal loan club) A susu or sou-sou or osusu or asue (also known as a merry-go-round, [1] Partner, or Pawdna in Jamaica; [2] sol in Haiti; [3], san in Dominican Republic, [4] and Njangi in Cameroon [5]) is a form of rotating savings and credit association, a type of informal savings club arrangement between a small group of people who ...
The first working credit union models sprang up in Germany in the 1850s and 1860s, and by the end of the 19th Century had taken root in much of Europe. They drew inspiration from cooperative successes in other sectors, such as retail and agricultural marketing (see history of the cooperative movement ).