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What is International Credit Union (ICU) Day®?

  • ICU Day has been celebrated on the third Thursday of October since 1948 and is designed to create awareness and celebrate the ways credit unions improve the lives of their members around the world.
  • It is the one day a year the entire movement takes the time to tell their members and communities about credit unions and when people learn what a credit union is and how it works—not-for-profit, lets them keep more of their money—they tend to like it.
  • 2024 celebrates 76 years of ICU Day under the theme “One World Through Cooperative Finance” – which signifies how credit unions and cooperative financial institutions still bring people together to grow financial inclusion and make local communities stronger, even in our divided times.
  • Credit unions truly have the perfect business model to make a commitment to members and communities across the world. The global credit union movement is now more than 403 million members strong, and they are served by more than 82,000 credit unions in 98 countries.