Associate Members

For 20 years, banks and financial institutions in Pennsylvania have relied on Accume Partners for internal audit, regulatory compliance and risk management services. As the level of regulatory and business complexity has surged, so has the need for specialized knowledge and focus. We have organized our firm to achieve that goal providing our clients with deep knowledge, expertise and approaches in the following areas:
" Internal Audit
" Regulatory Compliance
" Enterprise Risk Management
" Technology Risk Management

Through these key areas of focus, we are able to stay in front of change, bring balanced perspectives and the specialized knowledge demanded by today's banks and financial institutions.

Throughout the years, Accume Partners has served over 600 financial institutions. We have been active supporters and annual sponsors of PACB events and we welcome the opportunity to continue working with PACB members. Call us at 888.696.1515 or visit us at www.accumepartners.com.

All Covered is the leading provider of IT Compliance and Cybersecurity services to community banks. We assist our customers in maintaining regulatory compliance and mitigating cyber threats, enabling them to implement competitive products and services to grow their business.

With more than 35 years of experience serving financial institutions, Allied Solutions uses our tremendous depth of knowledge in financial services to identify and address emerging issues. We offer more than 100 products and services, and we're constantly searching for ways to expand both the depth and breadth of our offerings to better serve our industry. From technology-driven tools to consumer-centric services, our solutions are rooted in proven expertise, resourcefulness and accountability to help each of our customers grow, protect, and evolve their business.

The Baker Group is one of the nation's largest independently owned securities firm specializing in asset/liability and investment portfolio management for community financial institutions. We've helped our clients improve decision making, manage interest rate risk, and maximize investment portfolio performance since 1979. Our proven approach of total resource integration for community financial institutions utilizes software and products developed by Baker's Software Solutions combined with the firm's investment experience and advice.

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a nationally recognized, full-service accounting and advisory firm whose specialized professionals connect with clients and their businesses through refreshing candor and clear industry insight. With approximately 2,700 employees across the United States, Baker Tilly is ranked as one of the 15 largest accounting and advisory firms in the country. The banking industry continues to face changing regulations and public scrutiny. For a financial services company balancing compliance and risk management with profitable growth, Baker Tilly's specialized professionals deliver tailored advice and deep industry insight to help the organization reach its business goals. We are active in industry associations, speak on current business topics, and write timely and relevant articles - providing a unique understanding of the industry and its challenges - and how they will affect your organization. From staff accountant to managing partner, we focus on understanding you needs. Through knowledge sharing and open discussion, you will experience the value of working with a team of professional that focuses on you and your success.

Bank Equipment Consulting, Inc. and its affiliated company, BankGuard Security Systems provide bank equipment, ATM machines, security and maintenance service in the tri-state area. Bank Equipment Consulting, Inc. provides and services equipment manufactured by Hamilton Safe, NCR ATMs, FENCO Cabinets and many other quality manufacturers. Our goal is to provide quality service on a daily basis for our financial institutions.

BBN offers a reliable source for correspondent services. Our mission is to assist in the growth and prosperity of community based depository institutions. As a result, we are committed to providing high quality, leading-edge products and services. BBN provides credit, operational, risk control and advisory services to investor and non-investor depository institutions. A realtionship with BBN offers the opportunity for cost savings, revenue enhancement, improved competitiveness, and scalable growth in a high quality, secure, responsive, consistent and reliable manner. BBN- Empowering community financial institutions through products, information and solutions.

With four offices across Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Reading, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), BDO's Financial Institutions professionals are always nearby. We have been providing audit and tax services to financial institutions ranging in size from de novo banks to multi-billion dollar institutions for decades. Our comprehensive suite of integrated services for publicly held and private institutions and our proactive approach to addressing issues before they become problems are just two of the many reasons our clients have selected BDO. Our hands-on partners and experienced professionals provide accounting services with one focus in mind: your bank's success. For non-audit clients, we provide a broad range of advisory services including internal audit, compliance, risk advisory and other accounting services.

Berkley FinSecure, a member company of W.R. Berkley Corporation, is dedicated to providing customized, comprehensive insurance solutions and outstanding personalized service to financial institutions. We offer bond, management liability coverages and all standard property-casualty lines as well as specialty products catering to mortgage lenders and trust managers.

Our Berkley Crime unit provides crime related insurance products to commercial organizations, financial institutions and government entities.

We are a member company of W.R. Berkley Corporation, one of the nation's premier commercial lines property/casualty insurance providers. We underwrite on behalf of W.R. Berkley Corporation member companies each of which carry A.M. Best and S&P ratings of A+, A.M. Best Financial Size Category XV.

Bank Financial Services Group is a national firm (10 regional offices) that is the industries' leading BOLI expert. BFS Group's national expertise has helped banks all over the country increase their bottom line earnings, increase shareholder value and fund meaningful benefits for all their employees. Through our principals, regional partners and staff, we have extensive experience in the financial services and banking industries. Our exclusive focus on community banks makes Bank Financial Services Group uniquely qualified to design, implement, and manage all BOLI investments to help drive the bank's bottom line earnings.

BKD National Financial Services Group, a division of BKD, LLP, CPAs and advisors, has 180 professionals who provide consulting and compliance services to 1,200 financial institutions. BKD services include regulatory compliance, including Dodd-Frank requirements, internal audit, tax, loan review, extended financial statement audits, enterprise risk management, SEC reporting, IT risk assessment, strategic planning, merger and acquisitions, and profitability enhancement.

The Financial Institutions Group (FIG) is part of Boenning & Scattergood's capital markets organization. FIG personnel have expertise in multiple business verticals including sales and trading, research, investment banking, fixed income and asset management. Our experienced professionals work together to serve the needs of our financial institution clients. FIG leverages Boenning & Scattergood's substantial resources to provide clients with an unparalleled level of service as well as the creative ideas to help them successfully transact and grow their business.

Banc Consulting Partners, LLC, DBA as BOLI Consulting Partners, LLC in PA is an industry leader in the design, implementation, and administration of Bank-Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation. Led by a team of seasoned consultants with extensive experience in the BOLI, benefits, and banking arena; BCP is uniquely positioned and steadfastly committed to providing comprehensive consultation and service to the community bank marketplace. BCP's diagnostic approach, client-centric philosophy, and underlying focus in aligning institutional objectives in a manner that fosters trusted and meaningful relationships has helped hundreds of institutions across the country attract and retain quality leadership while optimizing earnings to offset the ever increasing cost of employee benefit obligations.

Bundlefi delivers a simplified search mechanism for conumsers looking to connect with a financial institution that suits their needs. Bundlefi is a game changer for community based financial institutions who often struggle to be heard above the roar of the mega banks.

With the industry landscape changing daily, adaptation, efficiency, and unwavering support are as important now as they have been in recent memory. To rise to meet these challenges, financial institutions - more than ever - need attorneys who understand their businesses and commit to working hand-in-hand with them to tackle their problems.

In every instance, the Burns White Banking and Financial Services Practice Group takes a business approach to serving its clients. With a substantial and enduring commitment to understanding our clients' businesses, we strategically focus all efforts toward achieving their goals in every case.

Our attorneys possess significant civil and commercial litigation experience in state/federal courts and in private venues representing a broad range of financial institutions. This includes matters for alleged breaches of contract, disputes among partnerships and other business interests, alleged breaches of fiduciary duties, alleged conspiracy claims, claims brought pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and other types of statutory and common law claims. In addition, we have also initiated and defended motions for temporary restraining orders, motions for preliminary and permanent injunction, and other emergency motions on behalf of various entities. Our work includes single plaintiff and putative class action cases.

Further, we represent financial institutions in all aspects of commercial financing, from structuring through documentation and closing. We handle loan workout, restructuring and collections, and loss mitigation, if necessary. Our attorneys counsel and assist institutions to cost-effectively resolve these problems and achieve the best return available. We assist with financial and managerial issues to help resolve situations quickly and effectively; to assess value; to propose solutions, structure to negotiate, and enter into the best and most cost-effective transaction available - to avoid and/or cure default. Moreover, we counsel our clients to implement the resulting operating plans.

We look forward to working with you. As a strategic partner for your business, we roll up our sleeves to help so you can roll yours down.

CEIS Review is an independently owned consulting firm founded in 1989 by proven commercial lenders that specializes in commercial loan portfolio consulting.

Our core services are Loan Review, loan portfolio Stress Testing, Loan Loss Reserve Methodology Validation or Refinement, portfolio acquisition review (Due Diligence), SBA Portfolio Review, Credit Risk Management Process Review, Structured Finance Review, and commercial loan policy consulting.

CEIS Review has provided consulting services to more than 200 banks domestically and abroad, thus solidifying ourselves as a proven and trusted resource within the banking community. To learn more about CEIS please visit our website www.ceisreview.com or call 888-967-7380.

Are you asking the following questions about your check printing
relationship…you should be!
• Are we are receiving fair, marketplace pricing on our check printing?
• Are we being afforded the discounts and incentives that our peers
of similar size enjoy?
• How much savings and fee income are we leaving on the table?
Answering these questions and acting on them could save the bank money
on its check printing contract. Savings of at least 40% are common!
Today bankers have more demands on their time than ever before and the
bank’s check printing relationship may not be at the top of the list. That
is OK, because Contract Management Consulting LLC (CMC) is here to
answer the questions above, move the check printing contract hassle off
your list and take the lead in helping the bank maximize its check printing
relationship, savings and revenue.
CMC works as an impartial third party to negotiate with check printers on
behalf of your bank. Jim Schartman, CMC’s Executive Vice President, brings
more than 32 years of experience with the country’s largest check printers.
Jim was described as “perhaps the most honored and successful salesperson
in the history of the company”. CMC’s performance-based fee structure,
their first-hand knowledge of the check printing business, contracts and
constructing top performing programs maximizes negotiations and
provides the best possible financial package for the bank. CMC is only
compensated when they save the bank money. Their depth of knowledge
and experience in the check printing business makes all the difference.
If you want a proven way to get answers, savings and results for your
banks check printing relationship, you need to connect with Contract
Management Consulting LLC.

Clarke Consulting specializes in financial management, strategic planning, and board/management education. Clarke Consulting has experience and expertise in the facilitation of management and board meetings and retreats, whether educational, strategic or ALM related.

CLA is a professional services firm delivering integrated advisory, outsourcing, and public accounting capabilities to help clients succeed professionally and personally. Additionally, CLA provides strategic solutions for community banks. From accessing capital, identifying and mitigating risk, and adapting to new regulations, our experienced team guides clients through challenging times and helps position them for future success.

COCC is an award-winning client-owned financial technology company servicing financial institutions throughout the Northeastern United States. Launched in 1967, COCC was founded by its clients with a focus on the technology needs of community banks. This unique cooperative structure sets COCC apart from the competition and is one of the driving forces behind our success. COCC is the fastest growing financial data processing company in the United States and recognized as a leader in delivering innovation and quality service financial institutions demand and deserve.