Canada · Financial institution
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (Vancity) is a financial co-operative incorporated in British Columbia, with its head office in Vancouver. It was founded in 1946 and is owned by its members. It provides retail and business banking, commercial mortgage lending and investment services, and its subsidiaries include Vancity Community Investment Bank, a federally chartered Schedule 1 bank. First Credit Union merged into Vancity on 1 December 2025 and now operates as FCU Community Financial, a division of Vancity.
Licences and registrations
Matched by LEI on the 22 tracked registers
None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registers.
- The tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- CTZNCA8VXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under CTZNCA8V directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- 1 branch code
- BIC first registered
- 1997-06-07
- Last updated
- 2022-02-14
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Member-owned
Institution type
Credit union / building society
Trades as Vancity
- Standing
- First Credit Union completed a business combination with Vancity on 1 December 2025 under Section 16 of the Credit Union Incorporation Act. It now operates as FCU Community Financial, a division of Vancity.
- Ownership
- Vancity is a financial co-operative owned by about 588,000 members, and it reports no controlling shareholder.
- Head office
- 183 Terminal Avenue, V6A 4G2 Vancouver, Canada
Business lines
According to its 2025 annual report, its main lines of business are retail and business banking (deposit taking and lending), commercial mortgage lending, and investment advice and services.
Online
- Websites & references
- vancity.com ↗
news.vancity.com ↗ news and media releases
annualreport.vancity.com ↗ annual report site
support.vancity.com ↗ member help centre (Learning Hub) - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗ · TikTok ↗
Sources · 14 pages consulted
- annualreport.vancity.com/_doc/Vancity-2025-Annual-Report.pdf
- annualreport.vancity.com/?cu_m_banner=true
- news.vancity.com/news/vancity-reports-strong-2025-performance-asset-levels-reach-a-record-41-billion
- news.vancity.com/news/vancity-credit-union-members-elect-three-board-directors-2
- news.vancity.com/vancity-at-glance
- news.vancity.com/news/vancity-and-first-credit-union-complete-merger
- news.vancity.com/news/vancity-ceo-wellington-holbrook-elected-to-central-1-credit-unions-board-of-director
- news.vancity.com/news/vancity-announces-new-appointments-of-chief-financial-officer-and-chief-legal-office
- cdn.vancity.com/v1/media/edge/images/vancouverci5821-vancity9f0e-prod943f-e9a1/media/Project/public-sites
- support.vancity.com/how-do-i-make-a-wire-transfer/
- firstcreditunion.ca/
- fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/new-neuf/nr/2026-09-24-4-eng
- vancity.com/AboutVancity/News/MediaReleases/InterimCEOAnnouncement/
- fintechfutures.com/job-cuts-new-hires/canada-s-vancity-names-wellington-holbrook-as-president-and-ceo
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Wellington Holbrook President and CEO
- Chair
- Rita Parikh Chair, Board of Directors
- Chief financial officer
- Frances Yip Chief Financial Officer
- Executive
- Dave Perri Chief Risk Officer
- Executive
- Angela Yadav Chief Legal Officer
Supervisors & regulators
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Canada
- BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) Prudential supervisorConduct
- Canada
- Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) AML supervisor
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
-
Merger / acquisition
First Credit Union merged into Vancity and began operating as FCU Community Financial, a division of Vancity.
news.vancity.com ↗ -
Licence
The BC Financial Services Authority gave regulatory consent to the proposed merger of Vancity and First Credit Union.
firstcreditunion.ca ↗ -
Leadership
Chief Member Impact and Experience Officer Johnathan Fowlie left Vancity, and his responsibilities were divided between two other executives.
annualreport.vancity.com ↗ -
Other
Vancity corrected vote-counting errors on board remuneration motions at its May 2025 AGM after an independent audit by MNP.
annualreport.vancity.com ↗ -
Leadership
The board appointed Wellington Holbrook as President and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Nez Aquino.
fintechfutures.com ↗ -
Leadership
CEO Christine Bergeron stepped down, and the board appointed Nez Aquino as interim President and CEO.
vancity.com ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, incidents, leadership changes, mergers and licence changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- CTZNCA8VXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- CTZNBank
- CACountry · Canada
- 8VLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300UM4UKZYVOLCQ72
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Profile
- Type
- Financial institutionClassified as a financial institution in Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, with no licence on a tracked register. This includes banks that neither the ECB nor the FSB lists, as well as brokers, fund managers, insurers and market infrastructure.
- Regulation
- Not on a tracked registerNo licence or registration was found for this entity on the registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
- Register licences
- None matched by LEI in the 22 tracked registersThe tracked registers cover payment, e-money, crypto and money-service firms in 37 countries. Bank licences from national supervisors are not tracked.
- Country · region
- Canada · North America
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
No licence or registration was found for this entity on the 22 registers the directory tracks, or on the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks are licensed by national supervisors whose registers are not tracked yet. This does not mean that the institution is unregulated.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
GLEIF’s relationship records name no parent for this LEI, and no group page is published for it.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 183 TERMINAL AVE VANCOUVER V6A 4G2 CANADA
- Operational address
- 183 TERMINAL AVENUE VANCOUVER VANCOUVER V6A 4G2 CANADA
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>CTZNCA8VXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300UM4UKZYVOLCQ72</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>CTZNCA8VXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300UM4UKZYVOLCQ72</LEI>
<Nm>VANCOUVER CITY SAVINGS CREDIT UNION</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>VANCOUVER</TwnNm>
<Ctry>CA</Ctry>
<AdrLine>183 TERMINAL AVE VANCOUVER V6A 4G2</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
Network
Branches and correspondent banking
One branch BIC connects to the head office. The bank publishes 1 account at other banks.
- Own offices
- Correspondent banks: it holds accounts there
Hover over a branch, account or group to see its details
Correspondent accounts
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
1 account at other banks, in 1 currency, for incoming wire payments (intermediary bank), as the bank publishes them: cdn.vancity.com ↗ dated 1 Feb 2022
| Currency | Correspondent | BIC | Account | Directory check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGD | Commerzbank AG Germany | COBADEFFXXX | 400872029400SGD | Matches the Swift directory |
This is the SGD incoming wire instruction form (Form_0988, dated 1 February 2022), and its one row is extracted. It may be stale. Vancity publishes a separate form for each currency on its wire transfers page, but those pages on www.vancity.com could not be fetched. The accounts for other currencies (for example USD, EUR and GBP) were therefore not extracted. Each correspondent BIC is checked against the Swift directory: a BIC missing from it, or registered to a differently named bank, may be a typo or out of date. Confirm settlement instructions with the bank before relying on them.
Branch codes
| BIC | Branch | City | Address | LEI | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTZNCA8V001 | VANCITY | Vancouver | 401-815 WEST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER VANCOUVER V6C 1B4 CANADA | — | 2021-02-25 |
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Sources & method
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