Murrow Consulting Group

MCG specializes in strategy, business enablement, risk management, regulatory compliance, and advanced analytics. Our team of seasoned professionals, with decades of experience in top financial institutions and regulatory bodies, provides clients with unparalleled knowledge and practical expertise.

Our Values

Innovation and Forward-Thinking
Client-Centric Approach
Strategic Vision
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MCG is dedicated to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, constantly innovating and creating new ways for clients to enhance their business operations and improve their financial performance through advanced analytics and AI.

MCG prioritizes resolving clients’ and teaming partners' most pressing challenges, focusing on their success and satisfaction. The firm partners with senior executives to transform businesses through Digital, Fintech, Regtech, Insurtech, and Analytics solutions.

MCG is committed to developing and implementing long-term strategies that drive progress, including the implementation of MVPs, digital infrastructure, and secure enterprise data foundations. The firm values foresight and the ability to navigate future challenges effectively.

Our Values

Innovation and Forward-Thinking
scott-graham-5fNmWej4tAA-unsplash

MCG is dedicated to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, constantly innovating and creating new ways for clients to enhance their business operations and improve their financial performance through advanced analytics and AI.

Client-Centric Approach

MCG prioritizes resolving clients’ and teaming partners' most pressing challenges, focusing on their success and satisfaction. The firm partners with senior executives to transform businesses through Digital, Fintech, Regtech, Insurtech, and Analytics solutions.

Strategic Vision

MCG is committed to developing and implementing long-term strategies that drive progress, including the implementation of MVPs, digital infrastructure, and secure enterprise data foundations. The firm values foresight and the ability to navigate future challenges effectively.

Brian Murrow
Brian Murrow
Managing Partner and Founder

Brian Murrow has over 30 years of experience in financial services, specializing in digital transformation, AI, and regulatory compliance, and leading high-impact projects for clients and regulators.

Edmund V. Tribue
Edmund V Tribue ​
Banking Sector Lead

Edmund Tribue has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, specializing in consumer and small business lending, credit risk management, fraud management, and regulatory compliance, with extensive expertise in operational efficiency and decision support platforms.

Sonthe Nguyen
Sonthe Nguyen
Capital Markets Lead

Sonthe Nguyen is a seasoned mortgage executive with 15 years of experience in financial, credit, and operational risk management, specializing in pricing, margin management, whole loan trading, secondary marketing, and MSR management, with a strong background in capital markets transformation and operational risk transformation.

Scott Harvey
Scott Harvey
Business Transformation Lead

Scott Harvey is an inquisitive, tenacious, and results-driven leader with over three decades of success in the banking fintech sector, known for his strategic vision and operational excellence, driving growth and elevating customer satisfaction through innovative solutions.

Bill Wood
Bill Wood
Application Integration Lead​

Bill Wood is an accomplished Application Manager in Financial Services with extensive experience in banking operations, finance, risk, compliance, and transformation, leading large complex transformational programs with both in-house and vendor solutions.

Alfred Reed
Alfred Reed
Payment Modernization Lead​

Alfred Reed is a transformation leader with a mix of strategy, innovation, and enterprise program experience, consistently delivering results in emerging domains such as digitization, payments, and product development, with a broad and versatile background across multiple industries.

Anindya Chakraborty​
Anindya Chakraborty​
Risk Analytics Lead​

Anindya Chakraborty has over 25 years of industry experience heading Portfolio Management and Analytics for major financial institutions, specializing in credit and market risk, capital markets, and portfolio management, with a notable track record in managing mortgage assets and financial modeling.

Rudina Bardhi
Rudina Bardhi
Data Governance Lead​

Rudina Bardhi is a results-driven professional with over 18 years of experience in banking, treasury management services, and data governance, excelling in implementing data governance frameworks, ensuring compliance, and enhancing data quality, with expertise in metadata management, policy development, and operational governance.

Glenn H. Hursh
Glenn H. Hursh
Operational Risk Lead

Glenn Hursh is a Managing Director at MCG with over 30 years of experience in digital transformation and data infrastructure for the financial services sector, specializing in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), enterprise risk management, operational risk, internal audit, and regulatory compliance, with a deep understanding of risk governance and internal controls.

Robert Lejarre​
Robert Lejarre​
Cybersecurity Lead

Robert Lejarre is a dynamic leader in Cybersecurity Governance, Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance with over 15 years of experience in protecting corporate assets against evolving threats, specializing in cybersecurity strategic planning, program development, data protection, privacy, and implementing innovative risk management practices.

Dori Samia
Dori Samia
Operations & Transformation Lead

Dori Samia is a strategic business and thought leader with nearly 30 years of experience in operations and transformation, known for building global teams and generating positive client outcomes through impactful business results, specializing in global operations redesign, business and IT transformation, program design, and operational resiliency.

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Case Studies

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Commercial Card Analytics

A national bank effectively addressed fraud risk and improved customer engagement in its commercial card business by implementing advanced data analytics and machine learning to analyze merchant card usage, resulting in enhanced fraud detection, increased customer loyalty, and boosted revenue.

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Predictive lending, Cross-Sell/Up-Sell:

A large national bank boosted its lending revenue by developing a data-driven solution that utilized machine learning to analyze historical and external data, identifying deposit clients with high borrowing propensity and optimizing communication channels for loan and mortgage offers, resulting in increased revenue, improved customer retention, and enhanced bank reputation.

Predictive lending, Attrition Forecasting
Predictive lending, Attrition Forecasting

A major bank improved borrower retention by developing predictive lending models that utilized machine learning to analyze personal, financial, and behavioral data, identifying borrowers likely to refinance with other lenders and optimizing retention strategies, resulting in reduced attrition, increased customer satisfaction, and enhanced market share.

Deposit Attrition, Business Banking:
Deposit Attrition, Business Banking:

A bank increased its deposit retention rate by developing a data-driven solution that utilized advanced analytics to segment customers, created personalized offers, and leveraged multiple communication channels, resulting in higher customer satisfaction and additional revenue.

Wealth Management – Attrition, Segmentation
Wealth Management, Attrition, & Segmentation:

A bank grew its wealth management business by implementing a data-driven solution that utilized analytics and machine learning to segment customers based on financial health and life events, providing personalized solutions and communication strategies, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, loyalty, and increased market share and revenue.

liquidity management
Liquidity Management

A bank enhanced its liquidity management by developing an advanced analytics and machine learning system to accurately predict daily cash flow and optimize liquidity management, resulting in improved cash flow forecast accuracy, increased return on excess cash, and enhanced operational efficiency and compliance.

Payout Process Transformation​
Payout Process Transformation​

A leading insurance provider improved its payout process by implementing a cloud-based platform that transformed 86% of checks to digital, reduced fraud and errors by 92%, and achieved an annualized ROI of over 500%, while enhancing customer satisfaction by 30% and completing the transformation in less than 6 weeks.

Enhancing Fraud Detection and Enforcement for a US Financial Regulatory Agency
Enhancing Fraud Detection and Enforcement for a US Financial Regulatory Agency

A US financial regulatory agency enhanced fraud detection and enforcement by implementing a new Enterprise Data Warehouse platform that leveraged advanced analytics and machine learning to process and analyze data from over 6 billion records, resulting in a 20% increase in enforcement actions, improved data accuracy, and enhanced agency reputation.

Case Study: Post M&A Operational Alignment​
Post M&A Operational Alignment​

A large FinTech company addressed post-M&A challenges by implementing enhanced SDLC methodologies, consolidating key business functions, and realigning staff, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational costs, a 75% reduction in case backlog, and a 98% customer renewal rate, all while achieving substantial improvements in operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Case Study: Strategic Roadmap for a Global Bank​
Strategic Roadmap for a Global Bank​

A global bank overcame challenges in a competitive financial sector by partnering to develop a strategic roadmap for data and analytics transformation, leading to improved customer satisfaction and retention, increased revenue and profitability, enhanced operational efficiency, and better decision-making through a 360-degree view of the customer journey and optimized processes.

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MCG's team possess deep industry expertise, enabling us to craft actionable strategies, implement them effectively, and achieve tangible results.