Media Releases & News

Media releases and news about credit unions in New Zealand published by New Zealand Association of Credit Unions.


No ‘Dumb’ Debt for Credit Union Members as Christmas Comes Early

30/11/11 Christmas is coming early for almost 25,000 credit union members throughout New Zealand, as their Christmas savings accounts reach maturity this week.

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Credit Unions Time To Shine

7/11/11 Henry Lynch, CEO of NZACU discusses the role of credit unions.
Henry Lynch CEO NZACU


Bank Transfer Day Spreads to New Zealand

5/11/11 Henry Lynch discusses credit unions with Bernard Hickey of interest.co.nz


Bank Transfer Day Reveals the Credit Union Secret

3/11/11 A viral camaign initiated via Facebook is sweeping the US, and is poised to give huge international profile to one of the financial world's best kept secrets: credit unions...

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Cooperative Values On the Rise

18/10/11 Member-owned financial cooperatives, like credit unions, are seeing a huge upswing in popularity globally as growing numbers of people express a genuine desire for socially responsible choices in terms of who they deal with.

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Financial-Literacy

NZACU Supporting Financial Literacy Summit 

21/06/11 The New Zealand Association of Credit Unions (NZACU) that represents 21 of the 27 active New Zealand credit unions, is committed to its support of financial literacy and is proud to be sponsoring the upcoming Financial Literacy Summit being held today in Wellington.

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Credit Unions rate above banks in overall customer experience

05/04/11 According to recent independent research undertaken by international market intelligence company brandmanagement Group, New Zealand Credit Unions ranked well above banks in terms of the overall customer experience when they were looking to become a customer.

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New Zealand Credit Unions celebrating community support in 2010

05/01/11 Every year credit unions and the people behind them support their local communities by vigorously pursuing their ‘people helping people’ philosophy. Their assistance and support is recognised by the credit union industry in a form of ‘People helping people award”.

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Standard & Poor’s outlook on NZACU upgraded

17/12/10  New Zealand Association of Credit Unions (NZACU) is pleased to announce that Standard & Poor’s have reaffirmed NZACU’s BB credit rating and upgraded the outlook to stable.

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