Risk & Control Assessments
We can evaluate the design and effectiveness of compliance risks and controls within your institution’s processes and systems. These assessments can include controls related to BSA/AML, mortgage lending, TILA, RESPA, Regulation O, CRA and other consumer compliance regulations. We have experience with GRC systems, such as Archer.
Enterprise Risk Assessments
We stand ready to assess your institution’s risks in seven key categories: Credit, Interest Rate, Liquidity, Transaction, Compliance, Strategic, and Reputation. We will present this information in a visual format that will convey your specific risk position in a simple and on-going manner.
Complaint Management System
We can help you design and implement a system for effectively tracking and handling complaints using a readily customizable online database.
Regulatory Remediation
We stand ready to assist financial institutions of all sizes with remediating compliance program and performance issues as required by regulators or other entities. This can involve developing remedial action plans, designing new programs, and developing procedures to conduct transaction testing.
Enterprise Project Management Systems
Let us assist you in building an Enterprise Project Management System, a process for governance and oversight involving numerous departments over the lifecycle of a project.
CRA Evaluation Services & Exam Prep
We can help prepare and analyze your bank’s lending, investment and community outreach efforts for submission to your regulator. We can help identify any potential weaknesses and strengths in your bank relative to peer. We can present your information and data in a manner that is able to accurately convey your institution’s situation and ensure you receive full credit for your efforts.
Compliance Process Design & Implementation
Let us advise and consult on the development of new and existing processes to ensure greater compliance and to reduce overall risks and costs. We can identify technological and system solutions for greater intergration and automation of compliance functions. Compliance Management System builds.
AML/BSA System Validation & Testing
We develop and test system and model functionality specifications relative to output for accuracy and effectiveness. We assist in establishing reasonable thresholds and testing of alerts and parameters for quality assurance. We can help with vendor selection and developing a program road map.
Online Management System Builds
If you have an area in your enterprise in need of additional attention, let us develop for you a rapidly deployed, online database to help you manage it.
Comparative File Reviews
We conduct file-by-file reviews on loans and applications to validate statistical analyses and to ensure no prohibited discriminatory practices or unfair treatment exist in the lending process.
Internal Audit Compliance Support
Let us assist in the design and implementation of compliance and AML/BSA related audits and reviews either as additional staff or as an independent third-party review.
Fair Lending
Let us conduct interviews with key lending officers, review your program and documents, and analyze lending data for patterns to gage your institution’s compliance with Fair Lending regulations, including ECOA, FHA, FCRA and others.