Merger Enablement Upcoming merger with Ecusta Credit Union creates a short term sales window for integration services, data migration, and IT consolidation. Opportunities include core banking alignment, cybersecurity hardening, vendor risk management, and post merger IT optimization to minimize member disruption.

Community Partnerships With 24,000 members across multiple North Carolina counties and active local partnerships, there is potential to expand small business lending, merchant services, payroll solutions, and targeted marketing services to local employers and community programs such as Going Pro in Sports.

Member Experience As a not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative, there is opportunity to upsell digital banking features, enhanced member experience tools, mobile payments, P2P transfers, and data-driven member insights to improve engagement, retention, and loyalty.

Education Partnerships Education partnerships with Haywood Community College point to an openness for workforce development tech, such as LMS platforms, apprenticeship program management, and onboarding tools that could be expanded to other local employers and credit union staff.

Mid Market IT The revenue size positions Champion as a mid-market opportunity for core banking modernization, cloud security and hosting, disaster recovery, CRM and marketing automation, as well as integrated analytics to drive member growth and operational efficiency.