In early May, part of the Fraud.Watch team made the trip to Sandestin, Florida to join a focused, senior-level gathering of credit union leaders at Visionary Conference – the kind of substantive, unhurried conversations that communities are built for. It was our first time at the event, and it will not be our last.
The conversations at our stand were direct and remarkably consistent. Credit unions are dealing with fraud that is more coordinated, more frequent, and considerably harder to track than it was two or three years ago. The frustration is not with the tools they have; it is with what those tools cannot see: what is happening outside their own institution, across the broader ecosystem they operate in.
That theme surfaced in almost every conversation we had, across all three days. Fraud managers describing incidents that turned out to be part of a wider pattern, only discovered weeks later through informal channels. Compliance officers asking whether there is a governed, auditable way to share intelligence with peer institutions without creating new regulatory exposure. CEOs asking what it would actually take to get a network like this off the ground, and whether the appetite exists to build it together.
These are the questions Fraud.Watch was built to answer.
We are grateful to CU*South for the opportunity to be part of Visionary 2026, and to everyone who took the time to stop by and engage seriously with what we are building.
If you were at Visionary Conference and want to continue the conversation, we would be glad to hear from you.
If you weren’t but are intrigued by the idea – let’s talk.
