Case Studies

Aligning Fair Lending Testing with Why Consumers Withdraw their Mortgage Applications

Banks and non-depository mortgage companies engage ADI to evaluate Fair Lending risk relative to consumer outcomes from their underwriting activities. We endeavor to align our solutions with the reasons consumers withdraw prior to an approval/denial decision based on the merits.   In the past several years, the proportion of non-approved HMDA-reported applications that were denied based on review of an applicant’s credit [...]

February 9th, 2021|

Optimizing a Community Bank’s AML Alert Monitoring System

ADI was engaged by a community bank client to help refine its AML transaction monitoring system, with the goal of improving effectiveness and efficiency in generating alerts of suspicious activity. ADI executed a multi-phase analysis plan to develop, test and implement changes to the system that enhanced the performance of the AML monitoring system, satisfying [...]

June 20th, 2017|

Redesigning a Bank’s BSA/AML Customer Risk Scoring Model and Enhanced Due Diligence Strategy

ADI was engaged by a community bank to overhaul its BSA/AML customer risk-scoring model and provide tools so that it could more effectively manage its Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) program for high-risk customers. Assessing the Challenge BSA/AML risk is dynamic and must be continuously managed. It is critical that risk ratings accurately reflect current risks, [...]

February 22nd, 2016|

Enhancing a Fair Lending Risk Assessment With BISG

ADI compliance consultants innovate to overcome the challenge of missing ethnicity and race data in a Fair Lending risk assessment. Assessing the Challenge Through the course of a Fair Lending risk analysis, ADI identified an issue with the client’s data that potentially affected the calculation of regression models to assess risk. ADI’s client, a high [...]

April 9th, 2015|

Evaluating the CRA Performance of a Midwestern Mortgage Lender

ADI helps a mortgage lender assess its CRA lending performance in the Midwest. Assessing the Challenge A large bank headquartered in the Midwest engaged ADI to evaluate its CRA lending performance in both its full- and limited-scope assessment areas. In a previous CRA performance evaluation, the bank received an overall CRA rating of Satisfactory, but with a [...]

April 8th, 2015|

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