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YCUP touts new CU strategic planning tool

Your Credit Union Partner has joined forces with the credit union consulting firm Mark H. Smith to provide clients interactive peer analysis, other benefits

Your Credit Union Partner (YCUP) today announced collaboration with the credit union consulting firm Mark H. Smith, Inc.(MHSI) designed to bring the firm’s Interactive Online Peer Analysis Tool to YCUP clients.

“I’ve been a fan of Mark H. Smith’s Asset & Liability Management (ALM) tools for a long time,” said YCUP Principal Scott Butterfield. “Today, we’re excited to partner with MHSI to include its interactive Peer Analysis Tool as part of our strategic planning process, allowing us to expand the peer analysis we provide to our clients, including a drill-down to look at Low Income Designated [LID] credit unions.”

More than half of YCUP’s clients are LID credit unions, CDFI certified, or both, and range in assets from $8 million to $1.2 billion. MHSI’s Interactive Online Peer Analysis Tool utilizes comprehensive call report data and allows for customized queries to provide valuable industry insights.

YCUP has conducted more than 35 Strategic Planning sessions at credit unions across the country in2018 – 200 during the past eight years.

“We have enjoyed working and collaborating with Your Credit Union Partner,” echoed Cynthia R. Walker, CEO at Mark H. Smith, Inc. “With more than 30 years of dedicated credit union support through a suite of outsourced services such as ALM/IRR Analysis and consulting, Balance Sheet Management, Loan and Deposit Analysis, and CECL Solutions, Mark H. Smith, Inc. is pleased to join with an organization that shares our commitment to providing affordable and valuable solutions to help credit unions succeed.”

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