Practical Governance Solutions • Compliance Leadership • Risk Management • Industry Education
The Duane Group provides fractional regulatory risk, compliance, and operational governance advisory for community financial institutions, credit unions, fintech-bank partners, and small financial service providers.
We help leadership teams translate regulatory expectations into practical execution, strengthen compliance management systems, and prepare for examinations, audits, growth, and change.
Community banks and credit unions are managing rising regulatory complexity, staffing constraints, BSA and cybersecurity expectations, AI and RegTech adoption, vendor oversight pressure, and margin discipline. Many cannot justify full-time specialized risk leadership, but still need board-ready governance, exam-ready documentation, and practical remediation support.
The Duane Group helps institutions close that gap with senior-level, flexible advisory support built around operational execution.
Service Lines
Evaluate the strength, structure, and maturity of your ERM program against regulatory expectations and operational realities.
Identify where AI and automation are being used, classify risk, and uncover governance gaps before they become audit, examination, vendor oversight, or regulatory problems.
Evaluate compliance, AI, AML, KYC, fraud, workflow, and third-party technology vendors before purchase, renewal, implementation, or examination review.
Support institutions before, during, or after regulatory scrutiny with practical corrective action planning and documentation.
Turn financial and regulatory data into board-level insight, peer context, and early risk indicators.
Provide experienced governance and compliance support for institutions that need leadership capacity without a full-time hire.
Strengthen vendor governance with clear inventories, criticality classifications, due diligence, and remediation planning.
Equip directors and executives to understand emerging risk, regulatory expectations, AI governance, and their oversight responsibilities.
Advisory Framework
Review governance structure, risk inventory, reporting, policies, controls, and regulatory exposure.
Identify the issues that carry the highest operational, supervisory, board, or remediation risk.
Build practical governance, CMS, ERM, AI oversight, vendor due diligence, and reporting solutions.
Support corrective action, board reporting, committee workflows, documentation, and training.
Provide fractional support, quarterly monitoring, annual refreshes, AI/vendor governance updates, and exam readiness planning.
Who We Serve
Governance, ERM, compliance, board reporting, exam readiness, remediation, and strategic risk support.
Practical risk oversight, policy review, vendor governance, operational resilience, and executive education.
Operational governance, third-party risk, compliance expectations, and documentation support.
Compliance strategy, vendor oversight, risk assessment, and governance infrastructure for growing teams.
Positioning
The Duane Group is positioned for organizations that need more than generic consulting but do not need large-firm overhead. We operate between internal staff, regulators, auditors, and executive leadership to help turn risk and compliance expectations into action.
Start here
Share a few details about your institution, current governance priorities, and the regulatory risk, compliance, vendor oversight, remediation, or board education support you need.
Email: info@theduanegroup.org
Complete the inquiry form and The Duane Group will follow up to discuss your needs, priorities, timing, and next steps.
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