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Canary Reports

Now Available:  4th Quarter 2018
All banks can receive a free canary report based on the bank's quarterly call report. Olson Research uses a bank's publicly available call report and benchmarks the bank's ratios to all other banks. The report flags the ratios which fall outside of the regulatory preference; and displays the high, low and mean along with the number of banks outside of the regulatory preference. Bank certificate number and free registration required to access report.
NOTE: You may be presented with a brief questionnaire prior to seeing your data.

Peer and Industry Report

Now Available: 4th Quarter 2018

Review the exclusive source for peer information regarding interest rate risk measures for community banks.

The Best Bank Ever of Idaho

Our president, Brad Olson, recently returned from training Bank Examiners in Idaho using our BANKdynamics simulation.  The session was lively and spawned a new #2 team in our overall national rankings. Read more including quotes from players on our Manage Your Bank blog.

FASB Announces: Fair Value Standard No. 159

The new Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities, attempts to reduce complexity and improve relevance of financial statements. Many bank industry experts share our president's viewpoint: Fair Value is no way to assess a bank's books.

Manage your bank, not your model

Follow our blog of comments and insights about asset/liability modeling and management for community banks from our president, Brad Olson, and other top analysts.

Asset/Liability Management: What Is A/L Benchmarks?

A/L Benchmarks is an asset/liability management model used by hundreds of community bankers across the country. Bankers can provide all the necessary data to accurately reflect the complexity of their bank's portfolios resulting in a dynamic shock analysis of earnings and equity at risk. Learn more about A/L Benchmarks product features.

Education: Bank Simulation

BANKdynamics is a web-based bank simulation module used to teach about financial analysis and bank management. Learn more about how BANKdynamics works.