Frost Bank · Financial Services · Austin, TX · 18 weeks
Call report preparation automated from 3 weeks to 2 days
A $4.2B regional bank spent three weeks each quarter on manual call report preparation, relying on four senior analysts. We redesigned the metric layer for ALCO, credit risk, and call report workflows to automate the process. This cut report prep time drastically and resolved all MRA issues found in the next regulatory exam.
Challenge
The bank spent three weeks every quarter manually preparing call reports, tying up four senior analysts. This manual work led to inconsistent results each quarter. A recent regulatory exam flagged four data quality issues in the call reports. The bank had six months to fix these problems before the next exam.
Outcome
We cut call report prep from three weeks to two days by streamlining data collection and automating calculations. This dropped annual compliance labor costs by $680K. When regulators reviewed the reports, they found no MRAs. We freed up four senior analysts to focus on strategic finance work instead of report assembly.
Results
- $680K Annual compliance labor saved
- 3 wks to 2 days Call report preparation cycle
- 0 MRAs in subsequent exam
- Month 1 New analyst fully productive
Our last exam turned up four MRAs, and we had another one scheduled in six months. Thinklytics helped us clean the data and automate the process, so this time we ended up with zero MRAs. The analysts who used to spend time on call reports are now able to focus on higher-value tasks.