Outsourced

ALM SOLUTIONS

We’ll Do Your Interest Rate Risk Analysis

You Manage Your Credit Union!

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Outsourced

ALM SOLUTIONS

High-Quality Service, Extensive Client Support at a cost-effective price

Independent ALM Modeling Process

VALIDATION REVIEWS

Expert, comprehensive, review of your complete ALM process including best practice, value added solutions

Comprehensive

ALM TRAINING

We offer comprehensive ALM training to clients and their boards and ALCO’s at no additional cost.

CREDIT UNION ASSET & LIABILITY ANALYSIS & PLANNING

Mark H. Smith, Inc. helps credit unions of all sizes manage their balance sheet and optimize earnings with our outsourced solutions. These proven solutions include Asset and Liability Management, Interest Rate Risk Management, and Liquidity Risk Management tools. Additional areas of expertise include CECL, Interactive Peer Analysis, Comprehensive Interactive Loan and Deposit Analytics, and other supporting ALM services. MHSI strives to promote credit union success by giving personalized service, improving understanding through training, supporting the credit union’s financial stability, and assisting with regulatory compliance. Founded in 1984 with an ongoing commitment to responsive client support and competitive costs, we currently serve over 400 credit unions nationally.

Upcoming Webinars

Mark H Smith Webinar ALM Model Validation Reviews

Essential Income Simulation Training for Credit Union Leaders and Boards

Wed., May 29, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
Are you a Credit Union Leader or Board Member looking to strengthen your knowledge of interest rate risk?
Join our essential training on income simulation and learn how this method helps estimate interest rate risk and how it can help you manage your credit union’s balance sheet.
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PARTICIPANTS WILL:

  • Gain an understanding of interest rate risk and why its management is essential
  • Review the basic concepts and assumptions about the loan, investment, and member deposit behaviors
  • Receive an introduction to the Income Simulation methodology to estimating interest rate risk as market rates change
  • Explore the results of various interest rate scenarios and how changing rates impact net interest income and net income
  • Discuss basic thoughts about setting Interest Rate Risk Policy limits
Mark H Smith Webinar ALM Model Validation Reviews

Basic Net Economic Value (NEV) Training for Credit Unions and How to Reduce its Volatility

Wed., June 19, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
Monitoring & managing ALM interest rate risk is more important than ever in our current environment. This webinar will focus on the Net Economic Value (NEV) approach for estimating interest rate risk & how rising interest rates and other balance sheet changes can have a significant impact on the economic value of net worth.

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PARTICIPANTS WILL:

  • Explore Net Economic Value (NEV) and the key assumptions driving the NEV results
  • Discuss the principle of Opportunity Cost and its relationship to Market Value
  • Demonstrate how rising interest rates & other balance sheet changes can affect Net Economic Value
  • Explore how the NEV analysis helps drive smart choices in balance sheet management
  • Examine NEV as an approach to IRR analysis, understand its primary advantage, and learn how to set realistic NEV policy limits
  • Review regulator approach to NEV
  • Share ideas on setting realistic NEV policy limits and experiences with regulator suggestions

For additional webinars and links to past webinars, please see the resources page and click on upcoming webinars or webinar archives.

Our Services

Mark H Smith ALMPro Classic

ALMPro Classic

Our ALMPro® Classic service estimates interest rate risk (IRR) and liquidity risk for credit unions with less complex balance sheets while providing a fully comprehensive ALM solution.

Mark H Smith ALMPro Plus

ALMPro Plus

Our ALMPro Plus service provides an amplified IRR and Liquidity Risk analysis and includes an Executive Summary. This level is suitable for credit unions with more complex balance sheets.

Mark H Smith ALMPro Premier

ALMPro Premier

Our ALMPro Premier service provides instrument level analytics and paramount modeling to analyze IRR and Liquidity Risk. This level is appropriate for credit unions with complex balance sheets who want more in-depth analysis or increased customization.

Mark H Smith Interactive Peer Analysis

Interactive Peer Analysis

Our interactive peer analysis tool allows you to customize historical financial statement, performance, interest rate, and trend comparisons to your specific asset size and geographic peers.

Mark H Smith Deposit Analysis

Deposit Analysis

A comprehensive Deposit Analysis from Mark H. Smith, Inc. employs an account level study of a credit unions non-maturity deposits over time to provide institution-specific rate sensitivities, cu historical responses to market rate changes, and decay and average life of deposits.

Mark H Smith Budgeting Support

Budgeting Support

Our Budgeting Service is available as an add-on for ALMPro clients. A senior analyst works with the CU to develop a budgeted balance sheet and the model will generate budget interest income and interest expense. The completed balance sheet and income statement budget are then completed.

Mark H Smith ALM Model Validation

ALM Model Validation

Our comprehensive IRR Model and Management Process Validation Review performs an in-depth appraisal of your IRR/ALM model as well as your entire IRR management process. The goal for us is to add value to your ALM program by leveraging our extensive experience and best-practice advice.

CECL Analysis

CECL Analysis

CECL is a new standard for Allowance for Loan and Lease Loss (ALLL) and will be effective January 1, 2021. In spite of the future effective date, credit unions need to start preparing their data now. MHSI will have a CECL solution for small to medium sized credit unions starting the 1st quarter 2018.

Still not sure which service is right for you?

At Mark H. Smith we understand this can be a very complicated process. Let us help you solve your issues, and guide you to the best solution. Our goal is to simplify and make things easier for you and your credit union, by saving time and increasing your knowledge. Let us help.

We do more for you!

How are we different?

Mark H Smith Commitment to Credit Unions

Commitment
to Credit
Unions

Mark H. Smith, Inc. has been helping credit unions for over thirty years. Not only have we been an advocate for small to medium-sized credit unions and IRR/ALM analysis, we also take a step further and train these same leaders on how to use this information for better management decisions.

Mark H Smith Highly Skilled Staff of Credit Union Experts

Teach & Train
as Part of our
Service

Our highly skilled staff of credit union experts put teaching and training our clients at the top of their priorities. We want you to succeed and know with the right information you can. We are happy to review your report, train your ALCO, or attend a board meeting. We also have many other ways to speed up the learning curve such as webinars and other online resources.

Mark H Smith Expertise that is Accommodating and Service Oriented

Expertise that is
Accommodating and
Service Oriented

In spite of being highly trained, the staff at Mark H. Smith, Inc. is here to help and be accommodating if at all possible. We want to make things easier for you and serve you with a friendly contact and a quality product with people you can rely on.