Single Sponsor Credit Unions Can Benefit From Indirect Lending
Ideas on how your indirect lending program can reach its full potential.
Ideas on how your indirect lending program can reach its full potential.
This New Hampshire credit union looked to extend their reach to members through every possible channel. Their initial focus was on indirect auto lending and enhancing their efforts through online seminars and innovative dealer promotions.
Downriver Community FCU may be small in terms of assets but is a leading credit union in the use of the Internet in their first mortgage program. Last year Downriver experienced a 180% increase in their first mortgage originations. Despite this increase, they were able to process loans in an average of only 26 days, far fewer than the national average of 42 days. Learn more about how Downriver use
Wescom Credit Union in Pasadena, CA has 176,000 members, 68,000 of whom are Home Banking users. Some 38,000 of those users log on every month, and giving them what they want and more is a challenge that the E-commerce team work at all the time. As a result, Wescom pushes the envelope as far as it will go by providing more services online than many credit unions.
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