large state credit union
State Employees' Credit Union (NC)
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A very large North Carolina not-for-profit, member-owned credit union serving state employees, retirees, and families with statewide branches and lending. SECU scores near the top of large credit unions because its public-employee constituency, branch access, and cooperative form keep more value with members despite scale and ordinary account-data monitoring.
Why this matters: SECU is an important calibration point: a very large institution can still retain more cooperative legitimacy than a shareholder bank.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Surveillance Capture.
Strengths
- Ownership7/10
- Extraction7/10
- Governance6/10
Penalties
- Surveillance Capture-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims9
- Direct axis claims9
- Coverage9/12
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. Linked evidence
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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6 / 10 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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7 / 10 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. Linked evidence
|
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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4 / 7 |
The linked evidence gives a bounded factual basis for this placement. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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6 / 7 |
The linked evidence gives a bounded factual basis for this placement. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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5 / 7 |
The linked evidence gives a bounded factual basis for this placement. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial
recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of
customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
|
-1 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) provides digital financial services that necessarily involve account-data processing, fraud monitoring, and transaction surveillance, even without evidence of unusual biometric or AI behavior scanning. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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2 / 3 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC)'s not-for-profit credit-union structure gives members a stronger claim on rates, fees, and service value than ordinary shareholder-bank customers. Linked evidence
|
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
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1 / 3 |
State Employees' Credit Union (NC) makes at least some public institutional, fee, or annual-report information available, giving members more cost and governance visibility than opaque fintech products. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 75/100
9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/12 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 19/20
9 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
9 direct claims across 12 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 8/10
9/12 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1State Employees' Credit Union (NC) publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
2State Employees' Credit Union (NC) operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
3State Employees' Credit Union (NC) describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
4State Employees' Credit Union (NC) offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
5State Employees' Credit Union (NC) offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
6State Employees' Credit Union (NC) has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
7State Employees' Credit Union (NC)'s not-for-profit credit-union structure gives members a stronger claim on rates, fees, and service value than ordinary shareholder-bank customers.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
8State Employees' Credit Union (NC) makes at least some public institutional, fee, or annual-report information available, giving members more cost and governance visibility than opaque fintech products.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
9State Employees' Credit Union (NC) provides digital financial services that necessarily involve account-data processing, fraud monitoring, and transaction surveillance, even without evidence of unusual biometric or AI behavior scanning.
- State Employees' Credit UnionGeneral web source · 58%
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