United Nations Federal Credit Union Opens New Branch In UN General Assembly Building, New York

-- Underlines Service Mission, Opening During UN General Debate --

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Oct 01, 2015, 02:43 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Nations Federal Credit Union, UNFCU, today announced that it has returned to the United Nations headquarters in New York, opening a branch in the UN General Assembly Building following the complex's extensive refurbishment. The new, 4,564-square-foot facility, located in the lower level of the Visitors' Center, provides greater banking convenience for the UN community based in or visiting New York.

Welcoming Mr. Yukio Takasu, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management, to the new UNFCU General Assembly Branch.

"I am very pleased to welcome UNFCU back to our main campus," said Mr. Yukio Takasu, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management. "UNFCU is part of the family and its homecoming was much anticipated among staff."

The UNFCU General Assembly location is a full service branch that offers a wide array of savings products, consumer loans, credit cards, U.S. mortgage options, insurance products and investment services. The facility also houses conference space for seminars and has three external ATMs. UNFCU's new branch complements its existing location at 2 UN Plaza and represents an expansion of services to UN staff after a near six-year hiatus while the UN buildings underwent an extensive renovation.

"We are thrilled to expand the in-person services we can provide to our members right where they work with the opening of our centrally-located branch," said William Predmore, president/CEO of UNFCU. "We thank the United Nations for its support in helping us open the branch in time for the General Debate of the 70^th Session of the UN General Assembly. With so many of our members visiting from around the world, this presents a unique opportunity for us to offer personalized service in a convenient location."

Additionally, UNFCU serves over 30,000 members located in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. With its new branch, the innovative financial cooperative will also serve representatives of the UN's permanent missions to New York, consultants and members of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA).

For the new General Assembly branch, UNFCU follows Global Reporting Initiative and United Nations HVAC (heat, ventilating and air conditioning) guidelines in keeping with its Board-mandated social responsibility programs and award-winning green headquarters in Long Island City, New York.

About United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU)
UNFCU offers a wide array of flexible savings, loan, investment and insurance products, as well as advisory services. Headquartered in New York and with branches in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Tysons Corner, Va., UNFCU has representative offices in Geneva, Switzerland; Vienna, Austria; Nairobi, Kenya; and Rome, Italy. UNFCU was founded in 1947 by 13 UN staff members at UN headquarters in New York.

With more than $ 4.2 billion in assets and 114,000 members, UNFCU is the 27^th largest credit union in the United States out of more than 6,700 financial cooperatives. For more information, please visit its website at www.unfcu.org.

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