# LIFE
NASHVILLE, TN · NCUA charter 67689 · asset band <$50M · latest filing 2021-09 · stopped filing after 2021-09 (departed; for a credit union that is almost always a merger)
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Who the members are: state charter, organized 1958. 3,922 members of 14,000 potential (28.0% of the field); checking penetration 46% (share draft accounts per 100 members); loans per 100 members 44.

**Verdict on the desk:** this could be *ordinary*. Composite score 4 of 18 (one point per flag across 17 flags, capital below 7% counted twice).

## What the filing shows

| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Total assets | $41.2M |
| Members | 3,922 (-1.2% YoY) |
| Full-time staff | 8 |
| Net worth | $3.8M |
| Net worth ratio | 9.2% (p24 of band) |
| ROA (annualized) | -0.32% (p16 of band) |
| Total delinquency | 1.20% (p72 of band) |
| Net charge-offs (annualized) | 0.33% (p76 of band) |
| Loans / shares | 71% (p82 of band) |
| Cash / assets | 30.1% |
| Borrowings / assets | 0.00% |
| Net interest margin | 2.87% (p68 of band) |
| Operating expense / assets | 4.86% (p91 of band) |
| Vehicles % of loans | 36% (p23 of band) |
| Indirect vehicle % of vehicle (all-channel basis before 2022) | 0% |
| Third-party paper % of net worth | 0% (p46 of band) |
| Vehicle delinquency | 0.90% (p72 of band) |
| Vehicle NCO | 0.96% (p92 of band) |
| Repossessed % of vehicle book | 0.00% (p47 of band) |
| Real estate % of loans | 41% |
| Credit cards % of loans | 5% |
| Unsecured % of loans | 13% |
| Commercial % of net worth | 0% |
| Core shares % of member funds | 52% |
| Certificates % of member funds | 7% |
| Average share balance | $5,679 |
| Participations bought / yr | $0 |
| Participations sold / yr | $0 |
| Participations outstanding | – |
| Loans outstanding per 100 members | 44% |
| Loans granted per 100 members, annualized | 10% |
| Average loan balance | $15,258 |
| Loans granted, annualized | $12.6M |

## Flags firing in the latest filing

- **losing money** (`earn_negative`)
- **expense trap** (`earn_opex`)
- **margin squeeze** (`earn_nim_squeeze`)
- **delinquency 2x band** (`aq_dq_high`)

## Warning timeline

| Quarter | Score | Flags that first fired | Flags that cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03 | 1 | expense trap |  |
| 2016-06 | 1 |  |  |
| 2016-09 | 1 |  |  |
| 2016-12 | 1 |  |  |
| 2017-03 | 1 |  |  |
| 2017-06 | 2 | net worth falling |  |
| 2017-09 | 1 |  | net worth falling |
| 2017-12 | 1 |  |  |
| 2018-03 | 2 | delinquency 2x band |  |
| 2018-06 | 2 |  |  |
| 2018-09 | 3 | losing money, loans>95% of shares | delinquency 2x band |
| 2018-12 | 2 |  | loans>95% of shares |
| 2019-03 | 1 |  | losing money |
| 2019-06 | 2 | loans>95% of shares |  |
| 2019-09 | 2 |  |  |
| 2019-12 | 1 |  | loans>95% of shares |
| 2020-03 | 4 | net worth falling, losing money, delinquency 2x band, delinquency rising | expense trap |
| 2020-06 | 5 | expense trap, margin squeeze, loan book shrinking | delinquency 2x band, delinquency rising |
| 2020-09 | 4 |  | loan book shrinking |
| 2020-12 | 4 | loan book shrinking | expense trap |
| 2021-03 | 5 | thin capital |  |
| 2021-06 | 2 |  | net worth falling, loan book shrinking, thin capital |
| 2021-09 | 4 | expense trap, delinquency 2x band |  |

## In the news (Google News, unfiltered, newest first; check the city)

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## How to verify

- Page: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/#cu=67689 (every cell opens its formula and NCUA account codes; the News tab is the same search)
- Latest row, JSON: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/data/summary.json · history: https://getbookiq.com/cu-intel/data/h/41.json (key "67689", columns cycle, assets, loans, shares, networth, nwr, roa, total_dq_pct, total_nco_pct, vehicle, veh_pct_loans, indirect, ind_pct_veh, ind_veh, ind_re, ind_comm, ind_other, ind_pct_loans, loans_n, granted_n_ytd, granted_ann, loan_pen, granted_pen, avg_loan_bal, loans_per_fte, veh_part, tp_pct_nw, veh_dq_pct, veh_nco_pct, repo_pct_veh, members_yoy, ltos, cash_pct, borrow_pct, nim_pct, opex_pct, risk_score, members, fte, cash_total, invest_sec, allowance_eff, int_income_ytd, int_exp_ytd, provision_eff_ytd, nonint_income_ytd, nonint_exp_ytd, net_income_ytd, n_flags, re_pct_loans, cc_pct_loans, comm_pct_loans, cert_pct_shares, core_pct_shares, part_buy_ann, part_sell_ann, pot_members, sh_draft_n, chk_pen, fom_pen, flags)
- Participation history: https://getbookiq.com/participation-desk/#cu=67689
- Field definitions: https://getbookiq.com/dictionary/#cu-ltos and the rest of the credit union dictionary
- Source: NCUA 5300 call report bulk files. Income fields are annualized by cycle month (Mar x4, Jun x2, Sep x4/3, Dec x1). Percentiles are within the asset band in the same quarter.

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