IncredibleBank

IncredibleBank accelerates growth with Alloy’s Identity and Fraud Prevention Platform
 

IncredibleBank automates 90% of account openings with Alloy

At a glance

Industry
Banking
Company Size
250+
Established
1967
Headquartered
Wausau, Wisconsin

Asset size: $2B

IncredibleBank, a leader in customer-centric banking, strives to deliver seamless financial experiences. As one of the leading digital-focused community banks in the U.S., IncredibleBank always aims to enable secure, efficient, and memorable banking experiences for its customers. 

As IncredibleBank’s digital channels grew, its highly manual application review process could not keep pace. The bank sought to find a technology partner that could transform its digital onboarding process, automating more decisions to free up operational resources. Ultimately, it chose Alloy’s enterprise Identity and Fraud Prevention Platform to improve decisioning on new applications, while preventing fraud, ensuring compliance, and streamlining the customer onboarding experience.

90%
of account openings automated
90%
reduction in manual reviews
88%
reduction in application review time

The Challenge: IncredibleBank’s account opening process was manual and inefficient

IncredibleBank’s initial digital account opening platform relied on a single data source for identity verification, providing only raw data that required manual review by employees. This process was time-consuming and subjective, leading to inconsistencies across the customer portfolio.

Before implementing Alloy, decision-making on applications averaged two days. During periods of increased application volume driven by marketing efforts, new product launches, or fraud attacks, decision times could extend up to five days, necessitating additional employee resources.

IncredibleBank recognized that delays in providing quick responses to potential customers could drive them to seek other options.

“Before Alloy, our account opening platform leveraged a single data source and was 100% manual. Our application volume varied month-to-month, from a few hundred to a few thousand applications, requiring significant back-end resources during spikes. This led to more subjectivity, thus necessitating back-end audits of all applications.”

Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

Additionally, relying on a single data source did not provide a holistic assessment of each customer’s risk.

“We needed to move beyond using credit bureau information for decisioning. We wanted to check applicants’ digital footprints, such as the age of their email or the association of their phone number with the applicant, as indicators of fraud. However, we lacked the means to validate these indicators before partnering with Alloy. This capability was a main focus when seeking a new fraud platform to grow our digital operations.” - Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

The Solution: IncredibleBank partnered with Alloy for enhanced fraud risk assessment and automation

IncredibleBank partnered with Alloy to automate its digital account opening process and deliver a comprehensive assessment of customer fraud risk. After evaluating several platforms, IncredibleBank selected Alloy for its robust automation, user-friendly interface, and proven success in mitigating fraud.

“The move to Alloy was strategic, improving our onboarding customer experience and driving business growth without added risk. We needed a platform to automate KYC, KYB, and fraud at originations at an enterprise level. Alloy met those requirements and allowed us to leverage its platform across various business units.”

Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

From a technical perspective, Alloy's Identity and Fraud Prevention Platform provided all the necessary functionalities. Additionally, the expertise and support from the Alloy team significantly enhanced the value of the partnership.

“When evaluating Alloy, the product itself met all our criteria - and more. The X-factor for Alloy is the team’s expertise and knowledge beyond the tech. This expertise makes the investment so worthwhile, giving us access to a level of fraud knowledge we couldn’t achieve on our own.”

Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

The Outcome: IncredibleBank automates 90% of applications, enabling the bank to onboard customers faster and allocate more resources to growth initiatives.

IncredibleBank automated 90% of applications, enabling faster customer onboarding and reallocating resources to growth initiatives. Alloy’s platform integrated multiple data sources to provide a comprehensive view of each application and significantly improve auto-decision rates. 

Enhanced customer onboarding

With Alloy, IncredibleBank reduced new account approval times by 88%, delivering a faster and more seamless experience for customers.

“Our old process had a 2-5 day decision time on applications. With Alloy, everything is instant.” - Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

Improved fraud prevention, detection, and mitigation

Alloy’s real-time risk assessments combine five different data sources, creating a holistic risk profile for each applicant. This enables IncredibleBank to identify and mitigate fraudulent applications more effectively.

“We backtested on a subset of previous applications that we evaluated before implementing Alloy. Alloy flagged some of those applications as potentially fraudulent. We reviewed and adjusted those accounts to protect ourselves from future problems.”

Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

Increased operation efficiency

By automating the digital onboarding process, IncredibleBank reallocated the responsibilities of a full-time employee from application reviews to sales-focused tasks.

“Without Alloy, we would have needed an additional full-time employee to manage fraud processes. We prefer to automate wherever automation is possible, allowing us to upskill employees to higher-value tasks. Now, the person managing our onboarding fraud process spends less than a quarter of their time on reviews, and 75% on sales and business growth. Alloy’s automation capabilities drastically increases our scalability.”

Phil Suckow, VP of Innovation

Looking ahead

IncredibleBank is so pleased with how Alloy has transformed its digital onboarding operations that it is now deploying Alloy in-branch. Alloy is proud to support IncredibleBank in delivering an INCREDIBLE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE SM

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