Ever get confused about the types of accounts you should be opening for your children and not know where to start? If so, no worries, we've got you covered! We will provide a comprehensive walkthrough on selecting the right bank accounts for your children, tailored by age and savings goals, to cultivate their money management skills from the start. This essential read is your roadmap to fostering financial literacy in your family.
Stay in the know with Advantage Insight
Our Advantage Insights Blog gives our members the opportunity to learn more about Piedmont Advantage's community involvement and engagement activities, products and services and financial education offerings. By staying in the know, you're more in control of your finances and future financial successes.
Youth Savings Challenges For Your Kids and Teens
Ask your children, Are you ready to choose your first savings adventure? Intrigued, of course, their responses will be yes! Use our age-appropriate, savings challenge activities that will help your children set and reach realistic savings goals. Now, are you up to this unique family-fun savings adventure?
Cash App Or Cash Trap: The Dark Side Of Peer-to-Peer Fraud
Can you imagine getting scammed and not being able to get your money back? If you use Peer-to-Peer payment services, like Venmo, PayPal, Zelle and Cash App, be cautious. Money transfer services like these have made it easy to send money to our friends, but it also has become the perfect tool for fraudsters to steal your hard-earned cash.
Congratulations, Sandi Richardson
Congratulations to Sandi Richardson, our Risk Management Operations Manager, for graduating from the Carolinas Credit Union League’s Leadership Development Institute.
This leadership program is recognized industry wide for credit union professionals who aspire to gain new insights, abilities and strategies to lead with excellence within their organizations.
Share Certificates: Acorns to Oak Trees
Just as an acorn grows into an oak tree, your savings also can grow steadily and securely with the right investment strategy. One such strategy is investing in share certificates. Let's delve into the analogy of an acorn and an oak tree.
Unwrap a Worry-Free Holiday Season in 2024
Holidays are meant to be the most wonderful time of the year, but overspending may lead to a feeling of financial regret. Whether you are familiar with this feeling or would like to avoid it, we have a powerful tool that can help. Let’s walk through a journey together and explore the magic of Piedmont Advantage’s Christmas Club Account.
PACU Foundation gifts $24,000 in 2023
Piedmont Advantage Credit Union announced today that the PACU Foundation gifted on Giving Tuesday a total of $24,000 to six charities to increase their capacity to help North Carolina residents in times of financial hardship.
The PACU Foundation’s ability to contribute these funds is due to the generosity and volunteer efforts of employees and members of Piedmont Advantage Credit Union.
Hang Up! It's a scam.
Your phone rings and you see Piedmont Advantage Credit Union on your caller ID. You answer. The caller says he’s from PACU and that there is a problem with your account that needs immediate attention. He proceeds to ask for personal information, like your PIN or account password. What should you do?
Hang up! It's a scam.
Jobana Semones becomes CU Times’ Rising Stars Luminaries Finalist
PACU's Community Development Executive Jobana Semones was selected by Credit Union Times as a Rising Stars Luminaries finalist.
Jobana is one of 10 finalists chosen in the Rising Stars category from across the nation for demonstrating “outstanding abilities to deliver change..."
Celebrating International Credit Union Day: Q&A - Meet Sandi
Yesterday was International Credit Union Day. If you have been following our blog, you know that we have been posting a new blog everyday in celebration. We wanted to extend the excitement all week!
Thank you, Bonnie, Perry, Sandi and Michelle, so much for your participation.