International cooperation has been particularly felt since the days when Alphonse Desjardins began the activity on development of credit union movement in North America. Today in the UK there are about 700 credit unions with assets exceeding 200 million pounds. Cooperation between credit unions, how they would not have been named, took place always, from the moment when the movement moved outside one credit union. Credit unions of the open type are still controlled by their members, but at the same time provide services to people who are not its members (external customers). The economic basis of credit unions - finances of a household. The main objective of the credit union - to ensure financial stability of a household, to ensure the priority of their shareholders' financial interests. The main advantage of credit unions consists in transparency, controllability, governance for shareholders. In 1908. the spread of credit unions has reached the United States. In 1935 President Roosevelt signed the state Charter on credit unions, which became a law.
Cooperation between credit unions, how they would not have been named, took place always, from the moment when the movement moved outside one credit union. Credit unions of the open type are still controlled by their members, but at the same time provide services to people who are not its members (external customers). Today in the UK there are about 700 credit unions with assets exceeding 200 million pounds.