Digital Federal Credit Union

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Digital Federal Credit Union (DCU) is a credit union based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. It has over 250,000 members and is the largest credit union in New England.

DCU has branches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Georgia and Colorado, although it has members in all 50 U.S. states.

DCU was chartered in 1979 for employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Its field of membership is now open to essentially everyone, with over 600 different sponsors, including the companies that acquired pieces of DEC (Hewlett-Packard, Intel Corporation, Seagate Technology, Cabletron Systems), a host of smaller companies, several communities in Massachusetts and Georgia, and several organizations open to anyone willing to pay membership dues.

Initially, all DCU branches were located in DEC facilities, but as the number of DEC employees and buildings declined, DCU began in 1997 to open free-standing branches. In 2004, HP evicted DCU from its remaining former DEC buildings, leaving just one branch in a former DEC building (the Intel facility in Hudson, Massachusetts); that branch closed the following year.