CCG Catalyst

Bank Information Technology

CCG Catalyst

Bank Information Technology

Bank Information Technology

Information technology should improve results. CCG Catalyst helps banks make sure it does. We look at IT issues strategically, in the broader context of our clients’ business. Our experts provide an objective, independent perspective to help banks realize the full potential of their IT resources, investments and assets.

What We Do

A bank’s ability to achieve its annual performance goals is directly linked to the technology infrastructure that has been created.

Information technology is critical to the overall operation and financial success of a bank because it directly affects services and ultimately impacts the customer.

We bring a full range of IT capabilities to a variety of IT business situations, including:

IT strategy development: Information technology helps banks transform themselves and grow their business. We help clients identify the optimal future state of IT, aligned with business needs, and then work to develop a blueprint for implementation.

IT performance improvement: Under-performing IT hurts business performance. We work with banks to reduce costs, develop outsourcing and offshoring strategies that meet their needs, redesign their organization, and ensure a cost-effective application portfolio that supports innovation to deliver breakthrough IT performance improvements.

IT M&A: IT synergies are key to successful mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs, but too often they are overlooked early in the deal. We help banks plan and manage the changes in their systems to accommodate these changes in business structure.

IT project effectiveness: We helps clients maximize the business results from major IT initiatives, including turnaround programs. We help executives evaluate the case for investment, set up projects for success, and ensure they capture value when implementing new systems and programs.

We partner with our clients in every level of assistance in:

Technology Strategic Planning: We look at markets and trends, competition and customers, at the bank and its resources – then use what we learn to ensure that the future direction can be successfully implemented.

Technology Assessment: We analyze the bank’s infrastructure, applications, processes, service provider relationships, and technology-related staff and management. This includes a review of the bank’s planned and ongoing technology projects and the relative priority, return on investment expectation, and timing of each initiative.

Core Vendor Evaluation: Changing core vendors is a major undertaking and should only be undertaken if your current business strategy is not being supported by your bank core solution. We advise your bank on what is the right solution which can make the difference between employing technology effectively and profitably. We take this seriously, if we provide the wrong advice we are placing the bank’s capital, time, and reputation unnecessarily at risk.

Core Contract Negotiations: We negotiate the complete “contract” not just price, but the terms and service levels are equally important. None of these exist in a vacuum, nor can they be taken out of the context of the contract as a whole.

Core Conversion: The conversion to a new core and related ancillary systems is one of the largest projects that any bank will undertake. The success of a system conversion is dependent on the coordination of a multitude of business functions and activities, both internally and externally, which should be addressed in a conversion plan.

IT / Technology Governance: We will examine the leadership and organization structure and processes to ensure the bank’s IT sustains and extends the bank’s strategies and objectives

Risk and Regulatory Compliance: In addition to financial, reputational and strategic risks, compliance risks pose a major threat to financial institutions. CCG Catalyst can help develop a mature and effective risk assessment and management process.

System Evaluations: Non-core or ancillary systems play a vital role in the delivery of services to a bank. CCG Catalyst provides evaluation services for all ancillary services including:

  • EFT
  • Lending
  • Mobile Banking
  • Online Banking
  • Platform
  • Teller
  • Treasury
  • Wire Transfer

Vendor Management: We will review or setup a vendor management process for your bank.

Virtual CIO assistance: CCG catalyst can provide part-time, interim or temporary CIO needs to your bank.

Client Engagements

New relationship and contract negotiations

Our client turned to CCG Catalyst for support to execute a major deal upon realizing the inefficiency of its legacy core and ancillary systems, which contributed to an unsatisfactory risk analysis. To facilitate the process, CCG Catalyst led the negotiations for price, terms, SLAs and related financial analysis. The resulting IT solutions were aligned with the business and corporate strategy.

IT Strategy

Developed IT strategy roadmap (Technology Roadmap) to close IT gaps in supporting the business for a community bank

Defined Strategy

Defined a technology strategy and transformation roadmap, redesigned IT organization to reduce CIO span and improved performance of lagging IT capabilities for a regional bank

Technology Roadmap

Our client with dozens of brick-and-mortar branches, was looking for growth opportunities. The bank’s’ historic growth model—opening new branches—had become a secondary priority. Given that customers were seeking channels such as mobile banking, e-banking, deposit taking ATMs, etc. the bank needed to evolve its go-to-market approach doing so required developing its technology-enabled capabilities. We redesigned the IT organization, built strategic sourcing capabilities, reduced IT resource gap, identified and reduced IT risks and increased collaboration and internal trust.

Aligning a new core platform

A multi-bank holding company saw significant benefits in creating a “shared services” environment by creating an integrated technology solution. However, none of their legacy core and ancillary solutions could cover the combined bank’s needs. CCG Catalyst with the client evaluated the solutions, architecture and migration options and identified a strategy to generate a significant dollar benefit. The result ended with one common platform with like products and services for all banks.

IT merger integration

Technology is crucial to successful merger integration. However it is often identified as a root cause of failed M&A due to poor platform and organization integration, inefficient due diligence and failure of IT to enable business synergies. These same areas, however, are also key targets for significant opportunities. In a “Merger of Equals” CCG Catalyst helped our client determine which technology infrastructure would be the ongoing platform going forward. We took the emotion out of the decision and it was based on which platform supported the combined bank’s strategy as well as provided the financial synergy.

More Services

Bank Business Case

Bank Business Case: Evaluation

Bank Business Case: In-House Vs. SaaS

Bank Business Case: Strategic Direction/Opportunity

Bank Core Contract Negotiations

Bank Core Conversion

Bank Core Vendor Evaluation

Bank Credit Risk

Bank Examination Assistance

Bank Fraud Review

Bank Information Technology

Bank IT M&A

Bank IT Performance Improvement

Bank IT Project Effectiveness

Bank IT Strategy

Bank Loan Review

Bank M&A Due Diligence

Bank Market Risk

Bank Merger & Acquisition Planning

Bank Merger Integration

Bank Mergers & Acquisitions

Bank Operational Risk

Bank Optimization

Bank Organization

Bank Retail Assessment

Bank Risk Advisory

Bank Risk Management

Bank Sales & Channel Effectiveness

Bank Strategy

Bank Strategy Assessment

Bank Strategy Planning

Bank Strategy Product Planning

Bank Technology Assessment

Bank Technology Governance

Bank Technology Strategic Planning

Bank Vendor Management

Bank Vendor Management Program Reviews

Line of Bank Business & Product Assessment

Payments

Project Catalyst

Service Operations

Virtual Bank CIO Assistance

Our Team

A collaborative perspective guides CCG Catalyst relationships both internally and with clients. We take a long-term view in our relationships. We strive to build bonds founded on respect, caring, honesty, mutual support, and investment. We work together in a manner that is team-oriented, constructive, and challenging.

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Director of Digital Strategy

Tony Lazare, Digital Technology Manager


Tony Lazare is the Digital Technology Manager. He has 20 years of extensive experience overseeing all aspects of an IT department, including web development, internal development, database management and reporting, quality assurance, and release management. Tony is a dedicated leader with outstanding technical and management skills and a proven track record of success developing and executing IT.

Tiana Brown, Principal


Tiana Brown is one of the Principals at CCG Catalyst. She has more than 10 years of experience in client services, financial services, operations, and consumer and mortgage lending. Her financial services expertise is comprised of both internal and external engagements. She has strategically coached clients at the organizational, leadership and operational level.

As Principal, Tiana’s subject matter includes internal operations, business processes, as well as risk associated with payment and consumer lending processes and structure. Her consulting skills and her depth of knowledge of financial services affords her the ability to guide and work with banks and fintechs to execute strategic plans that result in successful and sustainable outcomes.

John Peckham, Principal


As a Principal at CCG Catalyst, John Peckham has over 25 years as a trusted advisor to the financial services industry. John is a proven senior level executive, with demonstrated success directing business transformation and delivering impactful results within the digital, technology and fintech space.

As bank consulting leader, John has guided clients in banking, fintech, insurance, credit, as well as, both established and start-ups in creating, building, deploying, and excelling at technology based “disruption” of the established financial services industry

Before joining CCG, John held executive and board-level positions in a variety of companies. His banking experience ranges from community to top 100 banking institutions and has held several leadership positions in his tenure.

Kate Drew, Director of Research


Kate Drew is the Director of Research at CCG Catalyst. Her decade of professional experience includes leading data-driven research projects, creating fintech industry thought leadership, and managing editorial content for publications including Business Insider Intelligence and The Value Line Investment Survey.

At CCG, Kate spearheads client-facing research projects on fintech topics including open banking, digital channels, payments, lending, blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital wealth management, and others. She leverages quantitative data as well as conducts field study based on desk research, conference and event findings, and interviews with prominent industry leaders at fintechs, banks, and other financial and nonfinancial institutions. Her research brings voices into data and provides perspectives informed by real experience inside of financial services companies.

Miranda Jenkins, Chief Operating Officer


Miranda Jenkins is the Chief Operating Officer (COO). As a financial professional with more than 10 years of experience, she has assisted and lead strategic planning, analysis, operational management, and technology development work in private equity and hedge funds in the US, Europe, and Asia. She has handled operations of various funds including cash management, hiring, staffing, strategic goal setting, budgeting, technology development, and planning and implementation.

As COO, Miranda works with colleagues across the firm to execute on the overall vision and is responsible for the daily operation of the company. Her uniquely comprehensive background affords her to advise CCG Catalyst and its clients on operational and strategic initiatives.

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