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23 June 2026
Webinar
Beyond Scores and Point Solutions: What Separated the Credit Unions That Safely Grew Loans 9X Faster from Everyone Else
Speakers
Moderator:
Patrick McElhenie, Chief Growth Officer, Scienaptic AI
Panelists:
Chad Wilcox, Senior Vice President of Lending, Credit Union of Colorado
Chris Walsh, FVP Consumer Lending, Product Management, FourLeaf Federal CU
Howard Heinrich, Senior Vice President, Consumer Lending, CoVantage Credit Union
Credit unions that moved beyond bureau scores and isolated point solutions grew loans nine times faster than the industry median over the trailing twelve months, without a corresponding increase in credit risk. That gap did not come from better individual tools. It came from connecting fraud intelligence, underwriting, and pricing into a single decisioning layer where every signal informs the next and which learns from each decision.
Most lending stacks are still built the other way: capable components running in sequence, with no shared intelligence between them. This session examines what the shift to an integrated decisioning layer involves, what the data shows about the gap it creates, and what a credit union needs to evaluate about its current infrastructure to understand where it stands.
Key Takeaways:
How connecting fraud, underwriting, and pricing into a shared intelligence layer produces compounding improvements that structurally separate it from point solutions, regardless of how capable each individual model is on its own.
A practical framework for identifying your current system's blind spots, what those blind spots cost at different asset sizes, and what a move toward integrated decisioning requires in time and organizational effort.
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23 June 2026
Webinar
Beyond Scores and Point Solutions: What Separated the Credit Unions That Safely Grew Loans 9X Faster from Everyone Else
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Moderator:
Patrick McElhenie, Chief Growth Officer, Scienaptic AI
Panelists:
Chad Wilcox, Senior Vice President of Lending, Credit Union of Colorado
Chris Walsh, FVP Consumer Lending, Product Management, FourLeaf Federal CU
Howard Heinrich, Senior Vice President, Consumer Lending, CoVantage Credit Union
Credit unions that moved beyond bureau scores and isolated point solutions grew loans nine times faster than the industry median over the trailing twelve months, without a corresponding increase in credit risk. That gap did not come from better individual tools. It came from connecting fraud intelligence, underwriting, and pricing into a single decisioning layer where every signal informs the next and which learns from each decision.
Most lending stacks are still built the other way: capable components running in sequence, with no shared intelligence between them. This session examines what the shift to an integrated decisioning layer involves, what the data shows about the gap it creates, and what a credit union needs to evaluate about its current infrastructure to understand where it stands.
Key Takeaways:
How connecting fraud, underwriting, and pricing into a shared intelligence layer produces compounding improvements that structurally separate it from point solutions, regardless of how capable each individual model is on its own.
A practical framework for identifying your current system's blind spots, what those blind spots cost at different asset sizes, and what a move toward integrated decisioning requires in time and organizational effort.