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Big Sky Credit Union
Big Sky Credit Union (BSCU) was an Australian based credit union formed by the current or ex-employees, contractors or service providers of BHP, BP and the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and their subsidiaries, affiliated or divested companies. Big Sky became part of Australian Unity in 2012 and was merged with Australian Unity's subsidiary ''Lifeplan Australia Building Society'' which was subsequently renamed ''Big Sky Building Society''. Since 2016, Big Sky's operations, services and website has been increasingly integrated into Australian Unity. History The organisation started at the BHP Employee's Credit Co-operative in the 1970s. As part of a round of consolidation in the Australian Credit Union industry the Big Sky and BP Credit Unions merged on 1 September 2003. The operations of the BP Credit Union were effectively taken over by the management of Big Sky. In the 2006 financial year, the RACV Credit Union transferred its business to Big Sky, including all 2,364 membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMG Big Sky
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Credit Union
A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is a member-owned nonprofit financial cooperative. Credit unions generally provide services to members similar to retail banks, including deposit accounts, provision of credit, and other financial services. In several African countries, credit unions are commonly referred to as SACCOs (Savings and Credit Co-Operative Societies). Worldwide, credit union systems vary significantly in their total assets and average institution asset size, ranging from volunteer operations with a handful of members to institutions with hundreds of thousands of members and assets worth billions of US dollars. In 2018, the number of members in credit unions worldwide was 274 million, with nearly 40 million members having been added since 2016. Leading up to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, commercial banks engaged in approximately five times more subprime lending relative to credit unions and were two and a half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Automobile Club Of Victoria
The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) is a motoring club and mutual organisation. It offers various services to members, including insurance and roadside assistance. It has about 30,000 ordinary club members who have access to the lifestyle club properties and 2.1 million service members who hold any product offered by RACV. It operates two clubs for members, in the Melbourne central business district and in Healesville. The City Club was redeveloped in 2005, the Healesville Country Club in 2009. History Automobile Club of Victoria was founded at a meeting held at the Port Phillip Club Hotel on 9 December 1903 called by Syd Day, Henry James and James G. Coleman. Henry James Joseph "Harry" Maddox (1862-1937) was elected as its first President, and H.B. "Harry" James, its first secretary. At that first meeting, a proposal from Henry Sutton, the Australian motoring pioneer, was unanimously adopted: ::"that the objects of the club should be the promotion of a social or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Unity
Australian Unity is an Australian Mutual organization, mutual company having its origins in the friendly society, friendly societies movement. It was formed as the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MUIOOF) in Melbourne, Victoria, on 7 December 1840 by eight men including Thomas Strode, publisher of the Port Phillip Gazette and Augustus Greeves, inspired by Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity. In 1993, Manchester Unity merged with the Australian Natives' Association to form Australian Unity. Later mergers occurred with Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Grand United Friendly Society in 2005, Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society in 2009, and Big Sky Credit Union in 2012. Australian Unity has about 8,500 employees across healthcare, insurance and banking (in the guise of Big Sky Credit Union) divisions. In 2012, Big Sky was merged with Australian Unity to become the banking arm of Australian Unity. Ownership of Big Sky Credit Union Limited was transferre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RACV Credit Union
The RACV Credit Union was a credit union based in suburban Victoria, Australia that merged with Big Sky Credit Union in 2005. Membership of the credit union was open to staff and families of current and former employees of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and to Club Members of the organisation. The credit union was formed in 1972 The credit union had cash handling facilities at its head office within the RACV service Headquarters in Noble Park. In 1978, the credit union was part of a training program for Swinburne College. "Under college supervision, students worked as a team to produce a useful programme for the RACV Credit Union." In 2005 the RACV Credit Union's members voted to transfer their business to the Big Sky Credit Union Big Sky Credit Union (BSCU) was an Australian based credit union formed by the current or ex-employees, contractors or service providers of BHP, BP and the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and their subsidiaries, affiliated or divested compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RediATM
The rediATM network was an Australian ATM network originally operated and owned by Cuscal. On 14 August 2019, Cuscal sold the network to the Armaguard Group who subsequently closed the network by merging with their atmx network. History * 1982 – RediTeller ATM network launched to support Australian credit unions * 2008 – Cuscal and its partners began rebranding RediTeller ATMs to rediATM * 2009 – National Australia Bank joins the rediATM network, combining NAB's network of 1,700 ATMs with Cuscal's network of 1,400 ATMsPress release, 15 July 2009Expanded rediATM network/ref> * 2010 – Bank of Queensland joins the rediATM network * 2017 – Suncorp Bank joins rediATM network * 2018 – National Australia Bank announces it will discontinue using the rediATM network from 1 January 2019 *2019 – Armaguard finalises Cuscal rediATM Scheme acquisition on 14 August 2019 *2021 – Network was closed and merged with atmx Partnered financial institutions (before network closure) A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserve Bank Of Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is Australia's central bank and banknote issuing authority. It has had this role since 14 January 1960, when the ''Reserve Bank Act 1959'' removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank. The bank's main policy role is to control inflation levels within a target range of 2-3%, by controlling the unemployment rate according to the NAIRU, via controlling the official cash rate. The NAIRU was implemented in most Western nations after 1975, and has been maintained at a target of 5-6% unemployment. The average unemployment rate in Australia between the end of the second world war and the implementation of the NAIRU was consistently between 1-2%. Since the implementation of the NAIRU, the average unemployment rate in Australia has been close to 6%. The RBA also provides services to the Government of Australia and services to other central banks and official institutions. The RBA currently comprises the Payments System Board, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
