FICO Launches Digital Tool Hub to Help Lenders Accelerate Credit Risk Strategy Innovation and Advance Financial Inclusion

FICO , global analytics software leader, announced the launch of the FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab, a dynamic digital platform designed to help financial institutions pilot cutting-edge scoring strategies, benchmark portfolio performance, and responsibly expand credit access.

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The FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab delivers instant insights with critical benchmarking data and interactive portfolio modeling tools that financial institutions need to accelerate revenue growth, mitigate risk, and expand credit access responsibly. Through the suite of tools, financial institutions can explore FICO’s latest scoring innovations, analyze real-world benchmarking data, and simulate the impact of alternative data strategies on portfolio outcomes. These are the only interactive tools available built on the foundation of FICO^® Scores – the most widely used and trusted credit scores in the U.S. lending ecosystem.

Among the early users of the FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab is STCU, a full-service credit union offering consumer, mortgage and business products and services to more than 300,000 members in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.

“The FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab gives us clear perspective on how our portfolio compares to national trends and helps us maintain a comprehensive view for our credit union’s performance against industry benchmarks,” said Jessica Golladay, senior vice president of credit administration at STCU-Spokane, WA. “Having this trusted data from FICO—the score we use in our portfolios—at our fingertips allows us to make more confident risk decisions in real-time. These insights are instrumental in helping our credit union thrive while expanding responsibly to better serving our members’ financial needs.”

With the FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab, risk and strategy teams can experiment with score layering, cash flow integration, simulate portfolio shifts and evaluate the benefits of upgrading to newer models such as the FICO^® Score 10 Suite. The platform simplifies complex analysis, helping institutions align risk decisions with business objectives while meeting regulatory expectations.

“From banks to fintechs – we built the FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab to support the entire credit ecosystem by providing the ability to gain control of their credit strategies while safely expanding access to credit,” said Julie May, vice president and general manager of B2B Scores at FICO. “This new arsenal of tools will put actionable data at lenders’ fingertips, enabling them to simulate portfolio changes, assess risk trade-offs, and optimize scoring strategies with precision and speed.”

The FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab features five core interactive tools designed to provide actionable insights, including:

• Average FICO^® Score by State Benchmarking Tool: Enables exploration of regional score trends by state or Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) across different FICO^® Score versions, industries, and time periods
• Serious Delinquency Rates by FICO^® Score Band: Provides access to national sample data for portfolio performance assessment and benchmarking analysis
• FICO^® Score Distribution Benchmarking Tool: Allows comparison of applicant or portfolio score distributions against large national samples
• FICO^® Score 10 Adoption Explorer Tool: Facilitates score comparison metrics and upgrade simulation to the FICO^® Score 10 Suite, including portfolio redistribution modeling
• Inclusion Opportunity Explorer: Quantifies the business potential of financial inclusion through alternative data scoring solutions for credit invisible and near-approval applicants

Central to the FICO^® Score Credit Insights Lab is FICO’s long-standing commitment to advancing credit access through responsible innovation. Advanced analytic tools such as the Inclusion Opportunity Explorer enables lenders to develop strategies for extending credit access to credit-invisible and underserved populations. Lenders can model the integration of alternative and cash flow data solutions, including FICO^® Score XD and UltraFICO^® Score, to responsibly reach new-to-credit borrowers while maintaining robust portfolio quality and supporting sustainable growth.