(9/1/10) Partners Credit Union of Strum, WI and Fall Creek, WI is consolidating (merging) with Co-op Credit Union of Black River Falls, Melrose and Galesville. The consolidation will be effective October 1st, 2010 and has been approved by both boards of directors, the Office of Credit Unions (Wisconsin), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA – federal credit union regulator and insurer). Partners Credit Union members automatically become Co-op Credit Union members on October 1st. Once the transition to common data processing and other systems is complete, members of both credit unions will have access to five full-service locations, seven drive-ups in all, in western Wisconsin. The credit union will serve six counties and parts of three others. Both credit unions are federally insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
