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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.  

The Boston Globe named DCG a "Top Place to Work" every year since 2015
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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 

3/4/25

Bank CEO Network

Matt Pieniazek and Patrick Ward

Kansas City, MO

3/5/25

CeFPro

Mike Guglielmo

New York, NY

3/11/25

ICBA

Exhibitor

Nashville, TN

2/26/25

Speakers: Kevin Bannerton EVP, Chief Product Officer R&T Deposit Solutions, Eric Poulin, and BiIly Guthrie

3/5/25

Speakers: Joe Kennerson and Billy Guthrie

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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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41st Annual DCG Conference

June 2-3, 2025  |  Boston, MA

Changing the Conversation
for Strategic Advantage.  

The Boston Globe Named DCG a "Top Place to Work" every year since 2015

The DCG team is proud to be named a Boston Globe Top Place to Work for the 10th consecutive year. Learn more about working at DCG.

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FHLBank Atlanta Podcast: News You Can Use

DCG Managing Director Joe Kennerson joins this month's FHLBank Atlanta podcast to share his latest thoughts on 2025 strategies.  Listen here

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Ongoing Performance Monitoring for CECL

Interested in addressing a top CECL validation finding and boosting decision-making confidence? Learn more and request your institution's sample report. 

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