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“People helping People” Starts at Home

Guest blogger Randy Smith, founder, editor and publisher of news aggregator CUInsight, is wondering why credit unions don't see the Bank of America branch down the street as their competitors rather than another local credit union.

By Randall Smith, Guest Blogger | Updated on March 11, 2011

I received an interesting email after GAC from a woman at a credit union in New York. She asked a question that got me thinking of age old questions and commentary in the credit union movement.  Her question was:

“We all want to be “people helping people” so why not pull the community together and allow anyone that joins any credit union to be able to use any credit union anywhere. Banks do not consider other banks as part of their community and never will. I know the power of joining together would bring the banks to their knees and members would benefit greatly. Banks have branches all over because of their size, well we have many different credit unions everywhere so why not use our “credit union” community the same way.”

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