Smart move.....credit unions ar SO much better than banks!
… until you have to do any sort of international wire transfer and you realize that the CUs rely on the banks for that. The banks still hold all the cards that matter.
Seriously, if anybody knows of a credit union that does its own international wires, I'd love to hear about it. Most of the time they flat-out lie to you and say "sure we do"… the only way to know for sure is to actually send a transfer and ask the recipient's bank for the origination records.