FirstOntario Credit Union (118,000 members, $5 billion in assets) has launched its own independent insurance brokerage. This initiative means that FirstOntario has become the first credit union in Ontario to add auto and home insuranc...
Mortgage Professionals Canada, which represents mortgage brokers and others working in the industry, released a report this past summer stating that an estimated 100,000 Canadians have been prevented from entering the real estate market du...
One in five Canadians admitted in a Manulife survey this past May that they have kept their level of debt secret from a married or common-law partner, the CBC reports. Meanwhile, one in nine people hide the price of a retail purchase fro...
A report from the CD Howe Institute supports the creation of a pooled risk savings program to protect seniors who run out of money in their old age. The report, authored by Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, recommends a broad government-led i...
On Oct. 1, it will be easier for the country’s self-employed to obtain a mortgage, thanks to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp (CMHC). The housing agency is providing a broader range of documentation options to increase exibility fo...
CU Direct in Ontario and Alberta’s Servus Credit Union (363,000 members, $15.4 billion in assets) contributed to a fundraising effort at the 2018 World Credit Union Conference held in Singapore this past July to raise money for the Busia ...
Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), the largest non-financial co-op in Canada, is committing $65,000 to the Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada’s (CDF Canada) Breaking New Ground Campaign. FCL’s donation will help sm...
FirstOntario Credit Union (118,000 members, $5 billion in assets) has expanded its partnership, allowing members to have direct access to a trust and estate consultant with Concentra Trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of Concentra Bank, Cana...
This past May, Sunshine Coast Credit Union (16,800 members, $650 million in assets) on coastal British Columbia announced a partnership to launch a new service to ensure that people in dire but temporary financial circumstances can keep a r...
This past May, the Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA) announced the recipients of the 2018 National Credit Union Awards. Handed out at the CCUA National Conference in Toronto, the awards honoured the positive impact on communities by ...
First West Credit Union (240,000 members, $11.9 billion in assets), based in Langley, BC, announced this past April that it has signed the Minerva pledge. A registered non-profit charitable organization, Minerva BC “supports women...
This past March, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that did digital work for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, obtained private data on 50 million Facebook users that was used for behaviour...