Before you read the numbers.
The filing discloses a promotional rate alongside the ongoing rate. The figure shown here is the go-to rate that applies once the promotional period ends, because that is the rate that governs for the life of the account.
Disclosed rates and fees
Every figure below was read from this issuer's filed agreement. Anything the filing does not state is left out of this table rather than shown as zero.
| Purchase APR | 17.65% (variable) |
|---|---|
| Introductory APR | 0% for 12 months |
| Annual fee | $0 |
| Late payment fee | up to $25 |
| Foreign transaction fee | None |
| Cash advance fee | None |
| Balance transfer fee | None |
| Minimum interest charge | $0 |
| Network | Visa |
Analysis
On the record for Lux Signature Visa Application & Agreement 02 2026: a 17.65% purchase APR, no annual fee and a 12-month 0% opening period, filed by Whatcom Educational Credit Union. Against the 4,587 filings on this site, that rate lands around the 22nd percentile.
On the face of the filing
Whatcom Educational Credit Union submitted the terms for Lux Signature Visa Application & Agreement 02 2026 to the CFPB's agreement database; this is what they contain. The filing runs 12 pages, and It is issued on the Visa network.
The disclosure covers a purchase rate, an annual fee line, a late payment maximum and a foreign transaction fee. No figure appears for a cash advance rate, a balance transfer rate and a penalty rate.
Zero percent, and then what
This agreement opens at 0% for 12 months, the only period in the document where carrying a balance is free.
Roughly 458 of the 4,587 filings indexed here disclose a zero-percent introductory rate, so this is a real feature of the document but not a rare one.
Behind the promotion sits a 17.65% purchase rate. On $1,000 that is in the region of $193 a year once the window closes.
The promotional window is therefore worth something on the order of $193 on $1,000, measured against the same balance priced at the standard rate for the same period.
Where the purchase APR sits
The purchase APR of 17.65% places this agreement around the 22nd percentile of the set — it is on the cheaper side of the median.
This is disclosed as a variable rate. The number above is a snapshot: it tracks an index, so it changes without the agreement being amended.
To be precise about which number this is: the filing identifies it as the rate that takes over after the introductory period, not the introductory rate.
The cost of carrying a balance
At the disclosed purchase APR, $2,500 revolving for a full year costs something like $482 in interest.
A typical filing in this index would charge about $615 on that balance; this one is roughly $132 a year below it.
That maths assumes a static balance and nothing else — no payments, no additional purchases, no fees folded in.
What a missed payment costs
$25 is the disclosed ceiling on a late payment fee, placing it near the 32nd percentile of the set.
The fee structure
The annual fee is $0. Roughly 75% of filings here that state a fee state zero, so the absence of one is unremarkable in this market.
Foreign transactions carry no fee. Only about 22% of the filings here that disclose a foreign transaction fee set it at zero, so this is a genuine point of difference.
The no-interest path
The filing sets the minimum interest charge at zero — small balances are not rounded up to a floor.
Against the rest of Whatcom Educational Credit Union's filings
Whatcom Educational Credit Union has 6 agreements indexed on this site. The issuer's own range is 10.74%–17.65%. At 17.65%, this agreement is dearer than 1 of its siblings.
What the filing does not tell you
The disclosure parsed here does not state a grace period and penalty pricing. Those gaps are gaps in what could be read from the filing, and the PDF may well address them in prose the rate table does not capture.
More broadly, a CFPB agreement filing is a legal and pricing document. It does not describe rewards, benefits, sign-up offers, eligibility or approval criteria, and nothing of that kind has been inferred on this page. Where a card has features of that sort, they live outside this document entirely.
The document itself
This summary stands or falls on the linked PDF — 12 pages. Agreements are amended over time, and the filing reflects the terms as submitted rather than as they stand today.
In short
At 17.65% the purchase rate is close to ordinary for this corpus; nothing in the rate table sets this filing far apart from its peers. The absence of an annual fee means the rate is the only thing that can make this card expensive.
The source document
This page is a reading of one document: the cardholder agreement Whatcom Educational Credit Union filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Where the two disagree, the filing is correct and this page is wrong.
Applications are handled by Whatcom Educational Credit Union, not by us. We do not take applications and cannot say whether you would be approved.
Other cards from Whatcom Educational Credit Union
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Hive Signature Visa Application & Agreement 02
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 17.65%
- Annual fee
- $0
- Intro APR
- 0%
- Foreign tx fee
- None
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Edge Traditional Visa Application & Agreement 02
Agreement filed with the CFPB
- Purchase APR
- 10.74%
- Annual fee
- $0
- Intro APR
- 0%
Where this card sits
Groups this agreement qualifies for, by its own disclosed terms:
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