Status Update: Orange County credit unions hit lending records in 2017’s third quarter

The credit union business is humming in Orange County with more than 102,000 new members joining local institutions as of the third quarter of 2017, according to a report by the Ontario-based California Credit Union League.
A record high 1.38 million people were “member-owners” of 20 locally based credit unions, the report says. Membership has doubled from 690,000 since the early 2000s. Data for the report was drawn from the National Credit Union Administration as of S