Why TDG?
The Duane Group (TDG) offers practical risk and compliance governance for community banks, credit unions, fin-tech partners, and small financial service providers. Exam and board-ready without the large-firm enterprise overhead.
We help leadership teams understand and translate regulatory expectations into practical solutions while strengthening compliance management systems. We provide you with the tools so you're prepared for examinations and regulatory changes.
Community banks and credit unions face regulatory complexity, staffing constraints, BSA/AML obligations, cybersecurity expectations, AI governance, RegTech adoption, vendor oversight, and continued pressure on margins. Many cannot justify full-time specialized risk leadership, yet still need board-ready governance, examination and audit support, sustainable risk frameworks, and practical remediation guidance.
TDG provides senior-level, flexible advisory support grounded in decades of hands-on experience across financial institutions and major consulting engagements. Our approach is tailored to your organization’s priorities, risk profile, and operating environment. We do not simply deliver a finished product — we equip your team with the tools, knowledge, and processes to maintain and scale the work, with ongoing support available as your needs evolve.
Enterprise Risk Frameworks, Compliance Risk Management, and Strategic Advisory
Evaluate the strength, structure, and maturity of your program against regulatory expectations and operational realities.
Provide experienced governance and compliance support for institutions that need leadership capacity without a full-time hire.
Equip directors and executives to understand emerging risk, regulatory expectations, AI governance, and their oversight responsibilities.
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.
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.
Strengthen vendor governance with clear inventories, criticality classifications, due diligence, and remediation planning.
Advisory Framework
Review governance structure, risk inventory, reporting, policies, controls, and regulatory exposure.
Identify areas of concern with highest operational, supervisory, board, or remediation risk levels.
Build practical solutions to address the root cause(s).
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
TDG is positioned for organizations that need more than generic, one-size-fits-all consulting but do not need (or want) the large-firm overhead. We operate between internal staff, regulators, auditors, and executive leadership to educate institutions - turning risk and compliance expectations into scalable self-managed programs.
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