FILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Business research and consulting services to assist credit unions with identifying, researching, testing, developing, managing and marketing new consumer-oriented products, services, and business models to perform financial services; arranging business forums for credit unions to utilize their cooperative legal structure and collaborate on mutually beneficial research and innovation projects

Charitable foundation services, namely, providing and providing financial assistance and funding for academic and policy-based financial research relating to cooperative consumer finance and changing economic, legal and social environments; think tank services, namely, providing new ideas and concepts in the fields of consumer finance