Our Services
Regulatory Compliance
Our experts assist clients with successfully managing compliance risk. Whether consulting on specific regulatory requirements, review of your compliance program, or targeted assessments, we tailor engagements to meet your needs.
Internal Audit
Our experienced internal audit consultants are prepared to assist you with full outsourcing of the internal audit function or targeted audits of operational or compliance risk areas. We can also assist you with audit function development, internal audit charter development, a firm-wide risk assessment, and development of a risk-based internal audit plan.
Fair & Responsible Lending
Our fair lending team can support your fair lending needs by providing advisory, consulting, and audit services to address and recommend solutions for fair lending risk management and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) data integrity.
Commercial Loan Review
Our commercial loan review services are designed to assist clients with objectively identifying and quantifying portfolio risk and assessing the adequacy of processes for monitoring and addressing credit quality.
Consumer Loan Review
We help our clients identify and better understand the risk inherent in mortgage loan originations and acquisitions as well as other consumer loan products.
Litigation Support
We provide litigation support and expert witness testimony on a variety of issues surrounding lending, servicing, and regulatory compliance.
Our Clients
We partner with all the following types of clients:
Industry Insights
Articles
Health Check of Your Fair Lending Program
In Western Banker, Karen Cullen, addresses how strong compliance programs effectively navigate the challenging environment of fair lending compliance. In this informative article, she describes how the key ingredient to success is establishing a connection between risk assessment and performance analysis.
Read MoreMortgage Women Magazine – Back to School
In the September 2019 issue of Mortgage Women Magazine, Chris Ortigara addresses how women are taking their careers to the next level with a CMB® (Certified Mortgage Banker) designation. She shares not only her own experience, but the experiences of three other very successful women including Jennifer Roe Whip, Christy Moss, and Leora Ruzin. … Read more »
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How to Maintain Fair and Responsible Servicing Practices
The cover story of the July-August issue of ABA Bank Compliance magazine, How to Maintain Fair and Responsible Servicing Practices, was co-authored by Liza Warner and Karen Cullen. In this article, the authors address how compliance officers can guide their organizations in successfully navigating an evolving compliance landscape by identifying and mitigating compliance risk in… Read more »
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We Are Change Leaders
The cover story of the 2019 May-June issue of ABA Bank Compliance was written by Liza Warner. The article is about adapting and advancing in the evolving financial services landscape. She covers the role that compliance officers play in supporting banks’ strategic goals through change management and provides a framework for how compliance professionals can… Read more »
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Understand Where Your Data and Programs Meet to Control Risk
In the April 19, 2019 issue of Compliance Action, Karen Cullen addresses lessons learned from past fair lending consent orders. In her article, she discusses that adequate fair lending risk management requires not only awareness of potential fair lending risk, but an understanding of how that risk is affected by the institution’s programs and how… Read more »
Read MorePast Speaking Engagements
- Chicagoland Compliance Association Event at Northern Trust
- Financial Service Centers of America (FISCA) Money Trends Conference
- RegList On The Ocean
- Illinois Mortgage Bankers Association (IMBA) Mortgage Market Update
- Arch MI Executive Roundtable
