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Cooperative Solutions

Empowering credit unions through collaborative innovation and partnerships.

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Our History

Cooperative Solutions is rooted in the rich heritage of the Cooperative Credit Union Association serving as the business area connecting member credit unions with partners delivering the best value. By enriching cooperation, embracing innovation, and delivering tailored support, Cooperative Solutions aims to be the primary force behind the growth and prosperity of credit unions, ensuring they remain pillars of stability and community.

Why Cooperative?

Cooperative Solutions fully vets each business partner and offering, making it more cost effective and simple for everyone to work together. We maintain relationships with experts in a wide variety of aspects and disciplines specific to the unique credit union industry. Each credit union and partner may be powerful alone, but they're even better together!

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Our Vision

Careful selection of partners allow us to help credit unions in all aspects from staff benefits to member engagement and AI. We leverage these connections to offer credit unions tools and resources, often at a discount, to solve complex issues and enable success.

Our Mission

Cooperative Solutions deliver credit unions practical, cost-effective solutions that enable success, while simultaneously fostering and nurturing strategic business partnerships to adeptly meet the distinctive needs of credit unions.

 

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Our Strategic Partners

Learn more about our Strategic Partners

CUNA Strategic Services

Jointly owned by CUNA and the state credit union leagues and associations. CSS provides access to high quality products, services, and technologies delivered with a competitive advantage made possible through volume pricing and strategic program development.

CUNA Strategic Services
Employers Association of the Northeast

Comprised of experts delivering a full range of innovative resources and services that guide credit unions to support, train and retain their workforce and succeed. EANE is the go-to resource for employers seeking practical employee management solutions. Connect with experienced human resources professional that will answer your question at no charge, through the CCUA's HR Hotline.

Complimentary Human Resource Hotline: 877-662-6444

Employers Association of the Northeast
MemberClose

MemberClose simplifies the lending process for credit unions and members, boosting loan closures. Their cloud-based platform offers free access to top providers for credit reporting, appraisals, and document preparation, enhancing member service and staff retention. From credit repair to closing, the MemberClose all-in-one real estate lending process minimizes errors and processing time, benefiting both staff and members. Additionally, the new Mortgage Academy equips credit unions with the knowledge to excel in mortgage lending, fostering growth and talent retention.

MemberClose
Origence

Solutions for credit unions that assist with portfolio profitability analytics, vehicle dispositions, remarketing, and on-line member automotive research websites. CU Direct's product and services focuses on helping credit unions reach their lending goals.

Origence
Penny Finance

Penny Finance is an online financial planning platform built for women-first. Through personalized education and insights, Penny helps members get out of debt, into investing, and retirement-ready. Penny works with credit unions to implement 360º financial wellness programs that increase financial literacy and drive member engagement with credit union products and services. 

Penny Finance
TriVerity

CU Recovery is recognized as the industry’s leading expert for third-party collections of all loan types. The Loan Center minimizes the exposure to loss caused by delinquent loans.

TriVerity
TruStage

The number one provider of credit insurance products and the Fidelity Bond. TruStage offers a family of Fidelity Bonds to choose from resulting in the broadest, most flexible, and innovative coverage. In addition, Trustage has a variety of member-pay and credit union- pay credit insurance options for credit unions.

TruStage
Velera

Velera, formerly PSCU/Co-op Solutions, is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated financial technology solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help its clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services.

Velera