Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CREDIT UNIONS
  
  Credit unions are cooperative organizations whose members place money in savings accounts. In the past, credit unions made only short-term consumer and home improvement loans. Recently, however, they have branched out to originating longer-term first and second mortgages and deed of trust loans. (See noninstitutional lenders)
  
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