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Since 1934, SPIRE Credit Union has proudly served the residents of Minnesota and Wisconsin. SPIRE currently has sixteen branch locations in the Twin Cities area, including a branch in Princeton, Minnesota. SPIRE is one of the largest credit unions in Minnesota in terms of both asset size and membership, sitting at approximately $775M in assets and over 85,000 members. ==History== Times were bad back in 1934. The Great Depression was at its height; jobs and money were scarce. Banks that had survived the crash of 1929 had little cash, and they were not lending it. To save their homes and farms, people were forced to do business with loan sharks at 36% interest. It was into these historic and economic circumstances that Twin City Co-ops Credit Union (TCU), since renamed to SPIRE Federal Credit Union (SPIRE), was born in 1934. The founder, Edgar Archer, was an employee of what was then called Midland Cooperative Oil Association. Before starting at Midland, Archer had been out of work for some time, resulting in a number of unpaid bills. Now that Edgar was employed, he applied for loans all over…one by one he was turned down. Edgar did not give up - he wanted to do the right thing and pay his debts. He had been hearing about an employee credit union, so he thought, why not start one at the Midland? By February 1934, enough of his fellow workers agreed, and seven of them applied for a certificate of organization, officially incorporating on March 13, 1934. The loan maximum was set at $50, with interest at 1% monthly on the unpaid balance. Edgar Archer was the first to apply for and received a loan. * In 2014, SPIRE merged with neighboring Greater Minnesota Credit Union, adding six branches north and west of the metro. SPIRE now boasts 16 branch offices throughout the Twin Cities metro and beyond. That same year, SPIRE changed its charter and dropped the Federal from its name, becoming state-chartered SPIRE Credit Union. SPIRE History Video () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spire Federal Credit Union」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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