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Asset/Liability Management
Model Validation & MRM
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Transform ALCO into a strategic profit center with independent ALM advice & modeling.

The industry's most complete ALM solution puts you in control of managing your balance sheet. DCG’s strategy-driven ALM outsourcing options provide you with the consultative advice, tools, and expert resources your institution needs to excel.

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Bring data to life to optimize your strategy.

Make key balance sheet decisions with confidence, using robust data analytics and assumptions support. From best-in-class core deposit studies to data-driven software solutions for deposit analysis, liquidity risk modeling, credit stress, and loan portfolio prepayment/pricing analytics, DCG’s suite of decision-support tools will change how you strategize.

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Make model validation a strategic asset.

Ensuring confidence in your financial and operating risk management models requires attention to details, not short-cuts. DCG consultants’ knowledge and experience across a broad array of financial and operational risk models spans IRR, liquidity, ALM, BSA/AML, fraud, CECL, credit, and more. We deliver rigorous validations that enhance model efficacy and help clients meet and exceed regulatory expectations. Our team’s unmatched technical and business expertise can turn your model validations into a strategic asset.  

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Develop a sustainable MRM and effective challenge process.

No matter where you are in your model risk management journey, our team of experienced practitioners will help you develop, implement, and optimize your MRM process. Our goal is to help you ensure appropriate organizational governance and attain regulatory compliance with a sustainable, effective, and dynamic approach to model risk management.

Changing the Conversation for Strategic Advantage.  

Independent advice and solutions for banks & credit unions.

For over 40 years, Darling Consulting Group's only business has been to help banks and credit unions think differently. With a  transformed, data-driven perspective, our clients can manage their entire balance sheet effectively and rely on their risk management models with confidence. Every year, over 650 institutions – ranging from de novo to $100B – seek DCG's independent counsel honed from broad-based expertise in asset/liability management and enterprise risk management modeling. 

DCG brings clarity to the complex. Banks and credit unions work with us because of our ability to refocus their most important conversations. Our team has the data, the longevity, and the independent perspective to help institutions develop the right game plans to capture strategic advantage.​

Featured Insights

Upcoming Speaking

DCG Webinars 

2/11/26

StoneCastle

Joe Kennerson

Virtual

2/12/26

FMS

Mark Haberland

Virtual

2/15/26

American Bankers Association

Exhibitor

Orlando, FL

2/11/26

Speakers: Joe Kennerson, Billy Guthrie, and Jeff Croteau

2/19/26

2/25/26

Speakers: Jeff Zuendt (R&T Deposit Solutions), Kevin Bannerton (R&T Deposit Solutions), Justin Bakst, and Jeff Croteau

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Our clients tell us that we are “different”…

and that being different makes all the difference.

Changing the Conversation for Strategic Advantage.  

39th Annual

Balance Sheet & Model Risk Management Conference 
June 5-6, Boston, MA

39th Annual

Balance Sheet & Model Risk Management Conference 
June 5-6, Boston, MA

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2026 DCG Annual Report

Changing the Conversation
for Strategic Advantage.  

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You can still catch the replay of the webinar that kicked off 2026! Based on one of DCG's most popular conference sessions, Ask the Consultants. Watch here

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Why Fed Cuts May Not Lower Deposit Costs Quickly

In a new article from Bank Director, Matt Pieniazek, President & CEO of Darling Consulting Group, comments on the impact of interest rate cuts on deposit costs. Read here

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2026 DCG Annual Report
 

This Annual Report brings together forward-looking perspectives from across DCG on the issues we believe will matter most in the year ahead. Read here

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