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Maps Credit Union

“Can a regional educators' credit union successfully modernize member experience and payments infrastructure while growing beyond its original education-sector charter to serve the broader Willamette Valley?”

Founded1935
HQSalem, Oregon, United States
Founders20 teachers from the Salem School District and Willamette University
IndustryBank / Community
The story

Founded in 1935 as a teachers' credit union serving Salem-area educators, Maps Credit Union expanded its charter in 2008 to serve all Willamette Valley residents. The credit union has grown to ~78,000 members and $798 million in assets, progressively modernizing its payments and data infrastructure through partnerships with CUSOs like PSCU and data aggregators like MX. Its embedded finance stack reflects a traditional community credit union model — self-operated lending and deposits, outsourced card processing, and third-party insurance and merchant services integrations.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
1935
Founded as Salem Public School Teachers Credit Union by 20 teachers from the Salem School District and Willamette University.· banking
2008
Expanded charter from educators/school employees to all Willamette Valley residents.· pivot
2023
Partnered with PSCU for debit and credit card processing, becoming an Owner of the cooperative CUSO.· card
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by Maps Credit Union
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
3 layers disclosed in Maps Credit Union’s embedded-finance stack
Card issuing
PSCU
Lending
in the full report
Open banking
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
9 more providers across 2 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.