T-Shirt Design Contest: Winning Member Gets $100 🤑
Combine your design skills with your love for Bowater Credit Union to create the perfect Member Appreciation Day T-shirt! This Member Appreciation Day we'll be giving away hundreds of t-shirts as a "thank you" gift for our members. We want your help designing a shirt...
Mobile Wallet Offers Touch-Free Payments
What is Mobile Wallet? It's a virtual wallet - an App on your phone that stores your Debit Card and Credit Card information right on your phone. When you pay at the register, instead of getting your debit card out of your wallet, inserting or swimping, and touching...
Resources for Members During Coronavirus Pandemic
Updated 3/31/2021. Part of our Credit Union Mission includes educating members to make better financial decisions. We are here for you and here to serve you always, including during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Please follow the links below for useful resources for...
Milton Palmer wins 2020 $500 Pot O’ Gold
Congratulations to this year's $500 Pot O' Gold winner, Milton Palmer! Milton and his wife, Mary Lou, have been loyal members for many years. When told about their prize they exclaimed that they've won smaller prizes at our Annual Meeting over the years, but never a...
CFPB Resources for Members During COVID-19 Pandemic
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) has recently released several resources to help consumers take steps to protect their finances during the COVID-19 pandemic, including how to avoid financial scams and submit complaints to the Bureau. “During this...
March 23 Annual Meeting Cancelled
Bowater Credit Union’s Annual Meeting, which was scheduled for March 23, has been cancelled. With the continued reduction in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation on the size of public gatherings, the Board has determined the cancellation to be...
COVID-19 Response & Managing your accounts while practicing social distancing
Bowater Credit Union's Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) ResponseUpdated 2/1/2021 As the coronavirus threat continues to evolve, we are taking proactive precautions to maintain service while keeping employees and members safe. Our Operations Bowater Credit Union's top...
Pay your loan online & other new services in myBRANCH
Whether you are on your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, you'll enjoy these convenient options found inside the Self-Service Tab, under Member Requests in myBRANCH: Make a Loan Payment from any account anywhere. ...
Could you manage your money if you can’t leave the house? Or can’t get to a branch?
Sudden snow can make traveling to a branch unsafe. So how do you make a deposit or get cash? Current concerns over the Coronavirus remind us to stay home when we're sick. How can you pay your bills or make a deposit? Severe weather can damage your home, which means...
Member Received Call That Appeared to be from the Credit Union, But It Was Not
We have had multiple members report receiving a phone call that appeared on the caller ID to be from 423-336-7268, which is the credit union's main number. The caller claimed to be from the credit union and claimed to be issuing the member a new debit card due to...
Why Credit Unions Are Better
If you owned a business, you would do everything you could to create and drive income to grow that business and make it stronger, right? Well, your Credit Union is a business and you are an Owner! So, when you actively use the Credit Union’s products and services, you are investing in your own business, making it stronger for you and all of its other Member-Owners..
Credit Score Tips
Your credit score is calculated from 5 major categories: Payment history: 35%, Amounts owed: 30%, Length of credit history: 15%, New credit: 10%, Types of credit used: 10%
Here are some ways to improve your score in all categories: Payment History
Pay your bills on time. Delinquent payments and collections can have a major negative impact on your FICO score…