The $629 million Clearview Federal Credit Union of Pittsburgh completed a merger pact this week with the $61 million A-K Valley FCU of Lower Burrell, Pa. providing Clearview 11,000 new members and four new branches in Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties.

The merger with Clearview comes after the husband-wife management team operating A-K first signaled their intent two years ago to retire from the CU, which maintains historical and employee ties to Alcoa Corp.

Janet Horn, president/CEO of A-K, and her husband, Lanny, chief operating and chief financial officer, had notified the board in 2008 of their plans to leave the CU pending the CU finding replacements, said a Clearview spokeswoman. During the interim, A-K had considered mergers with various Pennsylvania CUs eventually picking Clearview, she said.