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The Federal Credit Union Act is an Act of Congress [1] enacted in 1934. The purpose of the law was to make credit available and promote thrift through a national system of nonprofit , cooperative credit unions .
The Bureau of Federal Credit Unions was a federal agency in the United States that supervised and chartered federal credit unions from 1934 until 1970. The Bureau was created through the Federal Credit Union Act as part of the New Deal. It was self-financing and did not receive appropriations from general Treasury funds. [1]
Despite opposition from the banking industry, the Federal Credit Union Act was signed into law in 1934 as part of the New Deal, allowing the creation of federally chartered credit unions in the United States. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) was formed and by 1937, 6400 credit unions with 1.5 million members were active in 45 states ...
The NCUSIF has the full backing of the U.S. government in case an insured credit union fails. ... Each credit union must have a defined membership per the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934 ...
As of March 2020, the largest American credit union was Navy Federal Credit Union, serving U.S. Department of Defense employees, contractors, and families of servicepeople, with over $125 billion in assets and over 9.1 million members. [5] Total credit union assets in the U.S. reached $1 trillion as of March 2012. [6]
The National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF) is the federal fund created by the United States Congress in 1970 to insure members' deposits in federally insured credit unions. On July 22, 2010, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law and included permanently establishing NCUA's standard ...
Senator Morris Sheppard and Congressman Wright Patman are considered the fathers of the Federal Credit Union Act of 1934. Sheppard was the act's author. The bill had stalled in the United States House of Representatives, considerably shortening the time the United States Senate had to pass the final version. Rather than sending the bill to a ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Federal Credit Union Act; ... Johnson–O'Malley Act; Jones–Connally Act 1934;