First Community Cooperative (Ficco) Balingasag Mis. Or. Branch
First Community Cooperative (Ficco) Balingasag Mis. Or. Branch
First Community Cooperative (Ficco) Balingasag Mis. Or. Branch
(FICCO)
COMPANY PROFILE
The "Ateneo Credit Union" was the First credit union organized in the Province of Misamis
Oriental or even in the entire Mindanao; (2) from a school credit union confined within the
Ateneo campus, it has grown to a Community Cooperative open to and serving a membership of
various people in Cagayan de Oro City.
Encouraged and inspired by Rev. Fr. William F. Masterson, S.J., the Ateneo Credit Union was
organized by 15 pioneers. The incorporators, mostly faculty and other personnel of the then
Ateneo de Cagayan, now Xavier University started with total deposits of P 26.30.
The First Community Credit Cooperative, Inc. has a membership numbering more than 2,000
scattered all over the city including teachers, market, vendors, businessmen, drivers, farmers,
bank employees, soldiers, executives, various laborers and professionals. Its assets totaled
approximately P 3 million pesos at the end of 1980. This achievement has been recognized by
the government (MLGCD) by awarding it "The Most Outstanding Community Credit
Cooperative in Region 10" for 1977 and 1978.
Twenty-six years have been a long and rough road since the pioneers/organizers fixed their
vision towards the horizon which inspired them to organizer the credit union - a Christian
concern for one another through self-help and mutual-help in a credit union way. All through the
26 years this concern for one another has been growing and expressed by the owner-members in
terms of money saved, of money borrowed and money paid back.
Most important, however, are the efforts of its members, through the years, their willingness to
risk their hard-earned money by sheer faith and trust in one another and their leaders, to serve
and be served through hard work and sacrifice, and through participation in decision-making
which enabled them to build a strong democratically-based business organization with a social
dimension. Its motto - "Not for Profit, Not for Charity, but for Service".
Several significant events could be traced from the records and recollections of some pioneers.
We would like to highlight those events as a tribute, especially to the BUILDERS of the First
Community Cooperative, Inc. (formerly the Ateneo Credit Union).
PREPARATION OF QUESTIONS
A. Background procedure
B. Background info of
o Cost of interest
o Financial instrument
o Profit per annum
2. Loan applications must be properly accomplished. Members must secure all the requirements needed
before the application is accepted.
Since FICCO have different types of loans according to the needs of its members, some of its
loan requirements differ depending on the type of loan being requested, viz:
One-year bank statement or bank certificate for members who wished to use PDC’s as security.
SHARES AND DEPOSIT
Shares
Common Shares
(Share Capital or Fixed Deposit)
Preferred Shares
Deposits
Time Deposit
AMOUNT INTEREST/ANNUM
1,000 – 50,000 2.10%
50,001 – 100,000 2.20%
100,001 – 300,000 2.30%
300,001 – 500,000 2.40%
500,001 - ABOVE 3.00%
BENEFITS FOR A RECOGNIZED MEMBER
The member shall make a monthly contribution of FORTY Pesos (PhP40.00) to KOOPAMILYA
(previously FICCO MBA) or P 480.00 annual, for protection against loss due to death or total and
permanent disability. The Life Insurance Benefit covers the member and the member’s legal dependents.
If married, the member’s legal dependents include:
the member’s legal spouse (entry age not more than 63 ½, exit age 70 years old)
three (3) single and biological and/or legally adopted children at least two (2) weeks old but not
more than twenty-one (21) years old
and three (3) biological children over twenty-one (21) years old, single, who are disabled and
incapacitated to work.(to wait for addendum or MOA)
If single and without biological children, the member’s legal dependents include:
the member’s biological parents less than sixty (60) and when both parents are already dead,
one of his/her younger brother or sister who is still single and not more than 21 years old or more
than 21 years old but disabled and incapacitated will be his/her dependent.
If a member is single (unmarried) but with children, the member’s legal dependents are:
three (3) single and biological and/or legally adopted children at least two (2) weeks old but not
more than twenty-one (21) years old
and three (3) biological children over twenty-one (21) years old, single, who are disabled and
incapacitated to work (to wait for addendum or MOA).
LENGTH OF MEMBERSHIP
CAUSE OF DEATH OR TOTAL AND PERMANENT
MEMBER
LEGAL
DISABILITY (TPD) DEPENDENTS
Due to Natural Death or Pre-existing Condition 2,500.00 None
THREE (3) MONTHS OR LESS
Due to Accident 20,000.00 5,000.00
Research Study of
Presented to
By:
Dexter P. Estopa
Klein T. Tomon
Myra L. Adajar