Whois & Analysis for bethpagefcu.com

Bethpage Federal Credit Union is a federally chartered credit union headquartered in Bethpage, Long Island, New York.

As of January 2017, Bethpage FCU is the largest credit union in New York state and 16th largest in the nation with approximately $7.2 billion in assets, 309,000 members, and 38 publicly accessible branches throughout Nassau and Suffolk counties.

A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services, based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts so paid plus other agreed charges.

The card issuer (usually a bank) creates a revolving account and grants a line of credit to the cardholder, from which the cardholder can borrow money for payment to a merchant or as a cash advance.

A mortgage loan, also referred to as a mortgage, is used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate; or alternatively by existing property owners to raise funds for any purpose, while putting a lien on the property being mortgaged.

The loan is "secured" on the borrower's property.

This means that a legal mechanism is put in place which allows the lender to take possession and sell the secured property ("foreclosure" or "repossession") to pay off the loan in the event that the borrower defaults on the loan or otherwise fails to abide by its terms.

The word mortgage is derived from a "Law French" term used by English lawyers in the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge", and refers to the pledge ending (dying) when either the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure.

A transaction account, checking account, current account or demand deposit account is a deposit account held at a bank or other financial institution.

It is available to the account owner "on demand" and is available for frequent and immediate access by the account owner or to others as the account owner may direct.

Access may be in a variety of ways, such as cash withdrawals, use of cheques and debit by electronic transfer.

In economic terms, the funds held in a transaction account are regarded as liquid funds and in accounting terms they are considered as cash.

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

Lending activities can be performed either directly or indirectly through capital markets.

Due to their importance in the financial stability of a country, banks are highly regulated in most countries.

Most nations have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities.

In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, known as the Basel Accords.