aid: connect-first-credit-union
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/connect-first-credit-union/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: connectFirst Credit Union
kind: company
description: >-
  connectFirst Credit Union is a member-owned, cooperative (Schedule-equivalent
  provincial credit union) financial institution headquartered in Calgary,
  Alberta, formed on May 3, 2021 by amalgamating four Alberta credit unions
  (First Calgary Financial, Chinook Financial, Mountain View Financial, and
  Legacy Financial). At its peak it held over CAD $6 billion in assets under
  administration and served more than 128,000 members across 41 branches in
  Central and Southern Alberta, offering retail, commercial, agricultural, and
  dealer-services banking. Members voted in November 2023 to merge with Servus
  Credit Union; the legal amalgamation closed May 1, 2024 as "Connect First and
  Servus Credit Union Ltd." (~CAD $29.3B assets, 600,000+ members), and the
  unified brand realigned to Servus Credit Union in January 2025 — the
  connectfirstcu.com domain now 301-redirects to servus.ca. Its open-finance
  posture is honest and typical of a Canadian credit union: no first-party
  public developer portal or downloadable OpenAPI, digital banking delivered via
  the Celero Xpress platform (powered by ebankIT) with core/banking-tech through
  the Central 1 / Celero cooperative ecosystem, and third-party consumer data
  access available only through aggregators (Plaid coverage confirmed). Canada's
  federal Consumer-Driven Banking framework (Budget 2024 / FCAC-overseen) is
  legislated but not yet operational, so no mandated open-banking API exists.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Financial Services
- Banking
- Canada
- Credit Union
- Alberta
- Cooperative
- Data Aggregation
created: '2026-07-23'
modified: '2026-07-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/connect-first-credit-union-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/connect-first-credit-union-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/connect-first-credit-union-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/connect-first-credit-union-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/connect-first-credit-union-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/connect-first-credit-union-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.connectfirstcu.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://connectfirstcu.com/en/news/news-and-announcments
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/connect-first-credit-union
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://servus.ca/privacy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com