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Valley Strong CU AI Score

Credit union in Bakersfield, CA · NCUA charter #68712 · State charter (federally insured)

Legal name: Valley Strong

Latest filed figures, Q2 2026. Every number below comes from the credit union's own NCUA 5300 Call Report.

Total assets$4.08B
Total loans & leases$2.89B
Total shares & deposits$3.65B
Members240,100
Net worth$379M
Net worth / assets9.27%
Loans / assets70.82%
Return on assets (annualized)0.77%
Loan growth (YoY)1.00%
Member growth (YoY)−30.96%
Delinquency, all loans (60+ days)1.94%
CharterState charter (federally insured)
Asset band$1B–$5B
NCUA peer groupover $500M
Sponsor typeCommunity (inferred from the name)

AI readiness

AI Score: 3 of 5 stars, AI connected to internal credit-union data

An AI system works on the credit union's own data: a member-facing assistant answering from its accounts or knowledge base, AI analytics or personalisation on member data, machine-learning fraud detection on its transactions.

A Genesys customer story naming Valley Strong Credit Union describes the credit union using AI and cloud technology in its contact centre to serve members, with a stated goal of moving 40% of member interactions to AI-powered self-service. The evidence is vendor-published and partly forward-looking, so it supports a member-facing AI assistant on the credit union's own service channels rather than

Filed signals, from the credit union's own NCUA call report (Q2 2026): uses fintech partners, fintech auto lending, fintech mortgage lending, fintech unsecured lending, online membership application, online loan application, online account opening, online loan payments, bill payment, e-Statements, external transfers / ACH, remote deposit capture, mobile payments. These are relationships and channels, not AI as such.

The AI Score runs from one to five stars; one star, no public evidence, is never shown on a credit union. Scores and sources for every credit union: CU AI Ready Report.

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