ALEXANDRIA, Va. - NCUA reported last week it approved 29 mergers in March, including an unusual number of huge credit unions acquiring much smaller ones, five involving billion-dollar credit unions. That included: Eastern Financial Florida FCU ($2.3 billion) acquiring Omni Community FCU ($50 million); Landmark CU ($1 billion) acquiring Belle City CU ($4 million); Kinecta FCU ($3.5 billion) acquiring Santa Monica School Employees CU ($9 million) Mountain America FCU ($2.1 billion) acquiring S.P. Sparks Employees FCU ($24 million) and GTE FCU acquiring Louisiana Association of Educators FCU ($1.4 million).
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Last month's mergers claimed another 17 small credit union under $5 million in assets, a total of 47 of which have been merged out of existence so far this year.
Increasing numbers of billion-dollar credit unions are turning to mergers to fuel growth, with 20 approved for mergers over the past six months. (c) 2007 The Credit Union Journal and SourceMedia, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.cujournal.com http://www.sourcemedia.com