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Our Expert Strategic Advisors have guided more than three hundred financial institutions over the past 20 years to get the market intelligence they need to make better strategic decisions and grow their market share.

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To stay relevant within your market, you need to know what your market wants and create a plan that meets those needs. But what if you don’t have the resources, tools, or time to analyze your local market? You are left reacting to what competitors are doing instead of proactively creating winning strategies.

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We understand how difficult it is to create a proactive strategy without up-to-date information on your market. Making the wrong decision because you didn’t have the right information will cost you time, money, and clients. Our expert advisors have guided more than three hundred banks and credit unions over the past 45 years get actionable, local market intelligence to create successful strategies and outgrow the competition.

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Account Projections Overview (9:14)

Learn how this screen allows you to model the growth, pricing, income and expense of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

Forecasting Overview (13:42)

Forecasting: Applying Manual Edits and Growth Models to the Balance Sheet

https://youtu.be/NrWRbnM65MU

Forecast Editing Tools (11:49)

The Quick Edit feature provides great power with several shortcut and calculation aides

Forecasting Webinar (57:32)

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Forecasting Growth

Pricing Models Overview (11:20)

Learn how to link Interest Rates to the Yield Curve with spreads, floors & ceilings. 

Pricing Model Examples

Pricing Models Webinar (1:17:45)

View this 77-minute session to learn about the essential components of pricing models, creating assumptions, and the application of pricing models in rate shock and budgeting.

Building Pricing Models

Prepayment Utility (28:30)

Learn how Compass captures the financial instution’s specific prepayment experience and allows both simple and complex
prepayment modeling at the account or category level.

Prepayment Converter for Securities: PSAs & CPRs

Rounding Out Your Assumptions Webinar (1:05:49)

View this 65-minute session to learn how Optionality is addressed in Compass through the Put/Call Feature and Prepayment Modeling. Understand the application of Decay and Alternate Discount Rates on Non-maturing Deposits (NMD). Review the input and functionality of Taxes and Dividends within the model.

Assumption Documentation Guide

Assumption Recap

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This 26-minute webinar reviews best practice techniques for creating your annual budget and locking your budget for the new year.

https://youtu.be/02BH_rAVtN0

Compass Best Practice Techniques Handout

Suspend Auto Reforecasting During Budget Approval (10:45)

Learn how to suspend auto reforecasting to get your month-end download complete during budget approval times.

https://youtu.be/Ogyrp_nSMFM

Locking the Budget (6:33)

Learn how to use the Lock Budget feature to transfer the projections into the Budget Tab.

https://youtu.be/13_yuOAYe-8

Year-End Shift (8:21)

This tutorial reviews the process referred to as shifting the database which is necessary to accommodate projected data for a new 12-month period by moving the prior year’s actual data and storing it as history

https://youtu.be/5wqkHnVGELk