Credit Union 1 is a not-for-profit credit union based in Anchorage, Alaska.

Its service area spans the entire state, and anyone who lives or works in Alaska is eligible to join.

As of December 31, 2016, the credit union had $992M in assets, over 85,000 members, and 14 branches throughout Alaska.

Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait.

To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas–the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States.

Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.

Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance.

Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.

In finance, a loan is the lending of money from one individual, organization or entity to another individual, organization or entity.

A loan is a debt provided by an entity (organization or individual) to another entity at an interest rate, and evidenced by a promissory note which specifies, among other things, the principal amount of money borrowed, the interest rate the lender is charging, and date of repayment.

A loan entails the reallocation of the subject asset(s) for a period of time, between the and the .

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.

Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments.

It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk.

Finance can also be defined as the science of money management.

Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return.

Finance can be broken into three different sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.