Founded in 1999, A.G. Newcomb, a management consulting firm based in Columbia, MD, works with community banks in the development and the execution of their strategic vision. Our team of banking experts has a wide breadth of financial and strategic consulting expertise on such corporate initiatives as:

•  Strategic planning; business plans
•  Consumer & business banking strategies
•  Branch acquisitions / divestitures—Valuation, negotiation, merger integration
•  Capital plans; financial forecasts
•  Strategic market positioning-- product assessments; online banking strategies; market assessments
•  Organization assessments

Founded in 1994, American Technology Services, Inc. is a leading provider of high quality, reliable IT services for financial institutions. We have broad experience in network infrastructure, end-user support, web-based development, managed hosting, and web-related technologies.

Our professional consultants have over twenty years of financial institution IT expertise. We routinely work with various teller, platform, and loan applications programs, ATM vendors, back-office systems, and other specialized equipment and software. Contact us today!

BFS is a national firm, headquartered in Princeton, N.J., with 11 Regional Offices and 17 Regional Partners. BFS works exclusively with community and regional banks to create, manage, finance (with BOLI), and service Non-Qualified Supplemental Benefit plans for Top Executives and Directors/Trustees.

Through BFS’s Principals, Regional Partners, and staff, we have extensive experience in the financial services, accounting, qualified & non-qualified benefits, and banking industries. Our exclusive focus on non-qualified benefits for bankers and BOLI financing of these plans, makes BFS uniquely qualified to provide meaningful benefits to attract, retain and reward the key drivers of the success of a community/regional bank, while positively impacting the bank’s bottom-line.

Credit Risk Management, established in 1989, provides US community and regional banks with superior credit risk management products and processes. These are integrated across the entire credit function to promote a sound and consistent credit culture. CRM clients get practical and strategic advice and personal service from experienced bankers who have walked in their shoes. This results in superior lending, risk management and compliance practices that complement the Bank’s credit philosophy. Our team of over 40 associates offers our clients, collectively, over 500 years of credit experience (most as lenders and/or credit officers) and 130 years of documentation, training, regulatory and/or legal experience.

Credit Risk Management has over 175 regional and community banks as clients. We currently support over 90 customized Online Credit Manuals and over 75 CRM toolbar clients. We provide recurring, periodic loan reviews for over 75 client institutions. CRM has performed over 30 independent assessments of loan portfolio quality and loss reserve adequacy as part of merger, acquisitions, or recapitalization due diligence.

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP (CPAs and Advisors) has been serving financial institutions for nearly eighty years and is the largest CPA firm based in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern U.S., ranking among the nation’s top 15 in size in the country. Our Financial Institution Services Group presently serves more than 150 banks across the Mid-Atlantic and Southern U.S., including community, regional and U.S. Top 10 banks. We have 20 partners with an average of 25 years’ experience serving financial institutions and more than 125 professionals dedicated to your industry. We provide external audit, SEC reporting, internal audit, tax compliance and consulting, IT reviews and consulting, Sarbanes-Oxley assistance, FDICIA assistance, merger due diligence, risk assessments, compliance services and FDIC assisted transaction services.