{"id":6614,"date":"2021-03-17T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/?p=6614"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:18:29","slug":"sound-credit-union-and-fluke-employees-federal-credit-union-complete-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/blog\/sound-credit-union-and-fluke-employees-federal-credit-union-complete-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Credit Union and Fluke Employees\u2019 Federal Credit Union Complete Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"co-flex_row co-flex_row__blue co-flex_row__last co-flex_row__long-form-text\" >\n\t<div class=\"co-flex_row--row co-row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form--block co-long_form--block__nomedia prow items-start \">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form--text pcol-md:12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-long_form--content\"><p><strong><span class=\"s1\">TACOMA, WA \u2013 July 1, 2020 <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/\">Sound Credit Union<\/a> (Sound) completed its merger with Fluke Employees\u2019 Federal Credit Union on June 30, 2020. The merger was finalized with the completion of the FEFCU member accounts being integrated into Sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The integration was the final step in bringing our organizations together<\/em>,\u201d said Don Clark, Sound\u2019s President and CEO. \u201c<em>We are excited to welcome the FEFCU members to Sound and look forward to building strong relationships with them<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nFEFCU members now have access to Sound\u2019s full suite of products and services, as well as access to all 28 full-service branches located throughout the Puget Sound.<br \/>\nThe merger process started in early 2020 with the Board of Directors from each credit union unanimously approving a merger agreement between the two organizations. The next steps included approvals from state and federal regulators, followed by approval from the FEFCU members in May 2020.<\/p>\n<h2>About Sound Credit Union<\/h2>\n<p>A Northwest original since 1940, Sound is one of Washington State\u2019s largest credit unions, driven by the purpose of standing with members, employees and the community through all waves of life. Sound provides authentic and trusted financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/support\/\">support<\/a> and services with full-service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/branches\/\">branches<\/a> around the Puget Sound.<\/p>\n<h3>Media Contact<\/h3>\n<p>Jennifer Reed, VP\/Public Relations, Sound Credit Union<br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:253.552.2928\">253.552.2928<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jreed@soundcu.com\">jreed@soundcu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More details available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/blog\/sound-credit-union-and-fluke-employees-federal-credit-union-complete-merger\/\">www.soundcu.com\/merger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound Credit Union completed its merger with Fluke Employees\u2019 Federal Credit Union on June 30, 2020. The merger was finalized&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/blog\/sound-credit-union-and-fluke-employees-federal-credit-union-complete-merger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15488,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6614\/revisions\/15488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundcu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}