SaskCentral maintains partnerships and business arrangements with a number of co-operative organizations. These relationships provide Saskatchewan credit unions with required services and also enable SaskCentral to achieve efficiencies by dealing with key service suppliers on behalf of the entire Saskatchewan credit union system.
Concentra Financial – A longstanding member of the Canadian co-operative financial community, Concentra Financial provides financial intermediation and trust solutions to credit unions from coast-to-coast. Concentra helps credit unions achieve their business goals and deliver a full line of competitive, high-quality financial services to their members in the following two areas:
Financial Solutions – Corporate financial solutions and financial management consulting from Concentra support successful day-to-day credit union operations, excess liquidity management and investments, effective risk management while enhancing opportunities for credit unions’ growth and diversification. As a partner with credit unions, Concentra seeks to expand the scale and selection of financial solutions offered to credit unions’
business and consumer members.
Trust Solutions – From estate planning and administration to the delivery of registered pans and specialized corporate trusts, credit unions can assist both consumer and business members through trust solutions provided by Concentra Trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of Concentra Financial.
Founded on partnership and thriving on co-operation, Concentra Financial exists to work with Canada’s credit unions, centrals and strategic partners to enhance the success of the credit union system and its members.
Credit Union Central of Canada (CUCC) is the national voice and trade association for the Canadian credit union system. With guidance from provincial members, CUCC speaks on behalf of all members and provides services through their partners to ensure best practices are available to all credit unions.
Credential Group is the national wealth management provider founded by the Canadian credit union system. It provides credit unions and independent investment firms an integrated range of products and services to meet the financial needs of Canadians.
Celero Solutions Inc. is a joint venture between four Canadian prairie co-operative organizations, including SaskCentral. Celero delivers reliable, innovative and cost effective information technology solutions to prairie credit unions in the areas of switching, telecommunications and banking.
CUMIS Group Limited (CUMIS) partners with credit unions to deliver competitive insurance and financial solutions. CUMIS’ principal companies are CUMIS Life Insurance Company and CUMIS General Insurance Company. CUMIS is jointly owned by Co-operators Life Insurance Company and Central 1 Credit Union.
CUSOURCE Credit Union Knowledge Network (CUSOURCE Knowledge Network) is the national learning and people development facility for the Canadian credit union system, providing credit unions across the country with credit union-specific learning and development options, transcript tracking and people management tools including job profiles and competencies.
The Co-operators Group Limited is a group of wholly Canadian-owned companies focused on insurance. Its member-owners are co-operatives, credit unions and like-minded organizations, representing a variety of sectors and regions across the country.
Credit Union Payment Services (CUPS) provides payment services and related products to credit unions, corporate clients and others in the financial services industry.
Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P. (NEI) is a joint venture between Desjardins and Canadian credit unions. It manufactures a wide range of conventional and corporate class funds from Northwest Funds® and the largest sustainable investing funds family from Ethical Funds®. NEI also manufactures proprietary packaged solutions for Credential Financial Inc.