As the 2014 business year draws  to a close, CU*NorthWest is announcing that it will post one of its most successful years with respect to new members processed on its CU*BASE^® core processing platform and new markets opened.

With the conversion of Family First FCU, in Great Falls, Montana, on September, 15, CU*NorthWest will have added 30,360 members among the five new credit unions converted this year.

The nine-year-old data processing CUSO brought on its first Montana members from Bitterroot Community FCU and Ravalli County FCU in May.    Tongass FCU brought the first Alaska members to the CUSO in February.   Also joining the CU*NorthWest family in 2014 business year was IBEW and United Workers out of Portland, Oregon.

CU*NorthWest now serves over 100,600 members from 30 credit unions across six states:  Washington, Oregon, Colorado, California, Montana and Alaska.