The financial services specialists at Baker Tilly have a deep understanding what concerns banking executives most. You can rely on our industry insight to help you in five critical areas: Growing the business, operating efficiently, managing risk, complying with laws and regulations, and curing or selling distressed assets. Combining diverse banking experience with specialized tools and techniques, we deliver measurable and sustainable value to you.

Grow the business. 

• Growth and retention services to identify and analyze strategic alternatives, conduct customer needs and buyer values studies, improve sales channel productivity, and enhance product development and pricing.
• Merger and acquisition services for portfolios or whole institutions.

Operate efficiently.

• Expense management through the benchmark of process efficiency, design and implement process reengineering, create shared services capabilities, and implement non-salary cost reductions.
• Human capital services enabling people to be effective and efficient in executing their roles.
• Measurement and management services for profitability reporting, funds transfer pricing, capital attribution, cost allocations, and process effectiveness.
• Information technology services including selection, implementation, optimization, and project management.

Manage risk.

• Credit and operational risk services assess risk exposure, redesign risk processes and policies, define risk appetite, redesign risk rating methods, monitor risk profile changes, and perform risk compliance audits.
• Other risk related services include enhancements to risk governance capabilities, capital adequacy practices, asset/liability management, and reputation risk policies and practices.

Comply with laws and regulations.

• Pre-exam services to review compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and/or Bank Secrecy Act requirements, perform loan reviews, assist with specific internal audit activities, and reviewing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Post exam services provide guidance in responding to Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) or definitive orders.
• Forensic accounting analysis and litigation support.

Cure or sell distressed assets.

• Review loan files, devise troubled loan strategic decision framework, perform receivership role, appraise property/collateral, provide staff to help collections and recovery, sell foreclosed assets, and provide servicing for the asset base.

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