Profile: Arizona State Credit Union

Arizona State Credit Union has been serving the financial needs of Arizona families since 1951.

In the early 1920's Edward Filene recognizing the value of credit unions amongst the working class, forms the Credit Union National Extension Bureau to champion individuals seeking approval to organize credit unions around the country. He hires Roy F. Bergengren, a Massachusetts lawyer, to establish federal and state laws. Filene and Bergengren seek to promote credit unions as an alternative to traditional lenders.

During the 1940's and 1950's credit unions began spreading out in Arizona. Employee based credit unions serving large corporations, military establishments, and city and federal workers made up the majority of credit unions at the time.

Mr. B.F. Hill, Chief Clerk of the Industrial Commission of Arizona, suggested in the summer of 1951 that a credit union was needed by state employees. Clarene Slade who worked in the accounting department, worked closely with Hill's office to find support for a credit union. Slade, with the assistance from the Federal Bureau of Credit Unions, completed the necessary work and Arizona State Credit Union was born on October 31, 1951.

Today, Arizona State Credit Union is the largest state-chartered federally insured credit union in Arizona. Nationwide, nearly 9,000 credit unions serve 84 million members throughout the United States.

Mission Statement

Our Identity …
We are a non-profit financial cooperative organized to serve our member-owners.

Our Mission …
To provide our member-owners with responsive service, convenient access, consumer education, and value-added financial related products and services, in a fiscally sound manner.

Our Commitment…

To offer our member-owners opportunities to achieve economic independence, to enhance their standards of living and quality of life, with an emphasis on personal relationships, wherever they reside.

Core Values

Ethical and Legal Behavior.
We conduct business in a manner that requires integrity, trust, accountability, and mutual respect.

Adaptive to Change.
We are an ever-learning organization that pursues, with urgency, innovation and reinvention to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Member Service.
We provide our valued member-owners the highest level of service and respect – our members come first.

Operational Excellence.
We maximize performance and growth through personal education, performance standards, and planning initiatives.

Teamwork.
We work together to achieve common goals and recognize our success.

Community Service.
We dedicate resources to causes that make a difference.

Our Benefits

Our commitment and core values carry over to our benefit program at Arizona State Credit Union.  We constantly look for ways to improve our benefits and strive to offer the best products available at affordable costs to our Associates.
- Full time associates enjoy Medical, Dental, Associate Life Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability with 100% of their premiums paid by the Credit Union.
- Our Associates may pay a portion of premiums to add their spouse and/or child(ren) to Medical and Dental coverage.
- All full time associates may choose to pay the premiums for Vision, Spouse Life Insurance, Child Life Insurance and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Part time associates may pay a portion of  premiums to receive medical and vision coverage
- Paid Holidays are available from day one while vacation and sick time accrue.
- Day one opportunities are available with our 401(k) and our generous pension plans.
- Education, training and tuition assistance is available to all associates.
- Associate reward and recognition programs that include organizational wide incentive programs, on the spot awards, service awards and associate of the year.
- Executive Benefit Plans are available.

And much, much more!