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As of October 2011 the largest American credit union was Navy Federal Credit Union serving U.S. Department of Defense employees contractors and families of servicepeople with over $45 billion USD in assets and over 3.4 million members. The main benefit of credit unions is the transparency accountability governance for shareholders. U.S. credit unions can be chartered by either the federal government ("federal credit unions") or by a state. In addition to the savings and loan operations credit unions of the U.S. provide some other services in the interests of its members:
1) direct debiting of funds from their accounts as payment for goods and services;
2) The issuance of credit and debit card payment systems of VISA American Express and their own cards but with a limited range of action;
3) advice on financial and tax planning;
4) provision of guarantees for the obligations of a shareholder to third parties; act as agents for insurance contracts. In addition to the savings and loan operations credit unions of the U.S. provide some other services in the interests of its members:
1) direct debiting of funds from their accounts as payment for goods and services;
2) The issuance of credit and debit card payment systems of VISA American Express and their own cards but with a limited range of action;
3) advice on financial and tax planning;
4) provision of guarantees for the obligations of a shareholder to third parties; act as agents for insurance contracts. Modern credit union history dates to 1852 when Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch consolidated the learning from two pilot projects one in Eilenburg and the other in Delitzsch in Germany into what are generally recognized as the first credit unions in the world.