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WOCCU Issues News Release Calling on Regulators to Designate Credit Unions as "Essential"

2020-04-13

World Council put out a news release calling on national-level authorities and regulators to ensure that credit unions are properly designated as “essential” during the COVID-19 crisis. Some jurisdictions do not currently include credit unions in the definition of essential, even though this classification has been extended to banks.

Read WOCCU's entire news release here.