# How Kinecta Federal Credit Union uses Unit21

**50%** reduction in false positives

As published on [unit21.ai](https://www.unit21.ai/customers/kinecta-federal-credit-union). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Kinecta Federal Credit Union](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/kinecta-federal-credit-union.md)
- Tool: [Unit21](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/unit21.md)
- Industry: [Banking & Mortgages](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/banking-mortgages.md)
- Teams: Fraud, Enterprise Risk

## The use case: how Kinecta Federal Credit Union deploys Unit21

Kinecta replaced its legacy fraud tool with Unit21 for transaction monitoring, case management and fraud consortium data. Analysts build, validate and publish fraud rules themselves across check, ACH and wire activity in one place.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Unit21 and Kinecta Federal Credit Union, not ours.

> This consolidation dramatically improved alert quality, reducing daily alerts from 100+ to fewer than 50, with up to 40% now actionable. The team can focus its attention on true risks instead of drowning in false positives.

- **$70,000**: “preventing significant losses such as $70,000 in one weekend and $20,000 in another incident flagged by Unit21’s Fraud Consortium.”
- **40%**: “Higher alert quality, with 40% now actionable versus 20% before.”
- **$90,000**: “Over $90,000 in prevented fraud losses that otherwise would have been missed in Verafin.”

> We went from over 100 alerts a day to fewer than 50—and nearly half are now truly actionable.
>
> Jorge Cortes, VP of Enterprise Risk

Source: [unit21.ai](https://www.unit21.ai/customers/kinecta-federal-credit-union), captured 2026-10-07.

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## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 50% is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Kinecta Federal Credit Union.
- Checked: Kinecta Federal Credit Union uses Unit21. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-18.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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