May 18th, 2020298Each year GeoVista Credit Union awards three scholarships to deserving applicants. The scholarships are in remembrance of the credit union's dedicated board members who strongly believed and supported education.
The Eddy E. Rogers Scholarship was awarded to Liberty County Graduate Katherine Holandez-Lopez. Katherine will pursue a degree in Bio-Engineering at the University of Georgia and wants to work for NASA.
The Thomas A McCorkle Scholarship was awarded to Riley Thomas Murphy, a Bryan County Graduate. Riley will study computer science at Georgia Southern University.
The Walter “Jack” Jenkinson Scholarship was awarded to...
May 18th, 2020092Credit unions across the southeast have continued to remain vigilant and proactive as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread. Credit unions take pride in caring for their members. With that in mind, CUs across the southeast have begun to think through careful plans to return to normalcy as the pandemic subsides.
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Heritage South Credit Union. Heritage South Credit Union plans to continue to operate with lobbies closed for a bit longer. The credit union is using an abundance of caution and will begin reopening lobbies only after examining whether cases decrease following the state's reopening.
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April 24th, 20201103Delta Community Credit Union (www.DeltaCommunityCU.com), Georgia’s largest credit union with more than $6.5 billion in assets, was recently recognized by MagnifyMoney for having the top-ranked mobile banking app in the nation.
In its Mobile Bank App Ratings 2020, MagnifyMoney compared nearly 20 million user ratings posted on Google Play and the Apple App Store. With more than 29,000 online reviews, Delta Community’s mobile app received an average rating of 4.86 out of five – a higher average score than the nation’s 50 largest banks and 50 largest credit unions as well as large online-only financial services providers.
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April 17th, 2020083Ralph Ray Story, former Florida Credit Union League board chairman, died on April 12.
Story also served on the Board of Directors of VyStar Credit Union for 56 years until his retirement on May 31, 2019. In 2015, Story was honored for his service by the renaming of the VyStar Service Center in Fleming Island to the Story Center.
His commitment to the credit union movement also earned him recognition from the Florida Credit Union League (23 years of service), Credit Union National Association (15 years), the Defense Credit Union Council (13 years), National Credit Union Foundation (three years) and the Armed Forces Financial Network...
April 13th, 2020055Local economies across Alabama, Florida and Georgia are about to receive an injection of support, thanks to local credit unions in partnership with the Southeastern Credit union Foundation (SECUF).
Considering the COVID-19 pandemic’s detrimental effect on local businesses, the SECUF has invited League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) credit unions in its three-state footprint to join the #CreditUnionsCareChallenge. By doing so, credit unions commit at least $25 per employee; which the employee will use to carry out a good deed in their community while supporting a local business of their choice. Employees are encouraged to follow...
March 25th, 202033115America’s credit unions have been working diligently to meet the financial needs of the states’ families and businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) is the regional trade association representing credit unions in the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. On behalf of our member credit unions, we want to share the following important information with you. The Georgia Credit Union Association – a subsidiary of LSCU representing Georgia credit unions – recently partnered with the state’s banking trade associations to spread similar information.
Here are some key...
March 16th, 2020399MagnifyMoney, a personal finance blog powered by Lending Tree, recently named Delta Community Credit Union's mobile app as 'Best Overall.'
The blog made this assertion in its article titled Mobile Banking App Ratings 2020, in which it recorded nearly 20 million app user ratings on the Google Play and Apple App Store as of December 2019. The final score for each app was based on these ratings, via a weighted average of iOS and Android ratings that factored in the number of reviews on each platform, according to the articles.
By these metrics, Delta Community Credit Union had the best mobile app of all banks and credit unions. In fact,...
March 13th, 20201228Delta Community Credit Union recently welcomed Carisa Buffington as the new branch manager at its Johns Creek location, according to a Johns Creek Herald article.
Buffington, while new to Johns Creek, has years of experience leading credit union teams in Duluth, Buford and Suwanee. She was tapped to lead the Johns Creek branch after former manager Jenn Dietzel was promoted to the credit union's residential lending team.
Delta Community has about 65,000 members in Fulton County and many of them visit the John's Creek branch regularly.
For more information, read the full Johns Creek Herald article here.
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March 12th, 2020064Georgia United Credit Union was recently named a Junior Achievement (JA) 100 Club member for the fourth consecutive year.
The JA 100 Club recognizes organizations that have 100 volunteers participate during the academic calendar year. JA partners with more than 200 organizations -- and only about 20 meet the 100 Club standards.
As of March, 106 Georgia United team members have volunteered at JA Centers, with a total number of volunteers projected to surpass 125 for the 2019-2020 academic calendar year. Georgia United is a longstanding partner and sponsor of Junior Achievement in Georgia, with focus in the Gwinnett, Atlanta, North...
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