Business View Magazine | January 2021

246 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2021 I n February 2019, Triangle Credit Union’s senior management team got together to identify the institution’s core values. They broke into two teams to work on their ideas before meeting back to discuss their findings. What they found surprised them. “The values ended up being the same for both teams,” says Triangle’s President and CEO, Scott MacKnight. “Community, Diversity and Service.” After introducing these values to their employees, MacKnight was surprised at their response as well. He shares, “What came back was, ‘this is what we have already been AT A GLANCE TRIANGLE CREDIT UNION WHAT: Full-service credit union in Southern New Hampshire WHERE: Headquartered in Nashua, NH with 10 branches throughout the state WEBSITE: www.trianglecu.org it Union Community, diversity, service working on’. It was cool to hear that all we did was capture what our culture is, and our values, and I think that was really an eye opener. And a pretty proud moment – that everyone was on the same page. That there was an alignment.” New Hampshire-based Triangle Credit Union was founded on Sept. 16, 1939 for the employees of Nashua Gummed and Coated Paper Company (now Nashua Corporation), a large paper company out of Nashua, NH. They started with 180 members and $2,105 in assets and have grown ever since. Today, the credit union has 10 branches, over 57,000 members, and $817 million in assets. MacKnight acknowledges, “The basis of the credit union was all about serving the members. Some things have changed but the spirit is still there, the stewardship is still there.” Triangle offers a full range of services and products, including online banking, mobile banking, savings, checking, telephone banking, auto loans, mortgages, and commercial lending and business services. Membership is open to anyone residing in the Hillsborough, Merrimack, Belknap, Rockingham and Cheshire counties of New Hampshire, as well as the Franklin, Worcester, Middlesex, and Essex counties of Massachusetts.