Cornerstone complements our comprehensive consulting services with industry-renowned studies and reports, online newsletters, and a variety of carefully researched articles. We strive to bring together the knowledge and experiences of all our clients to help them broaden their exposure to industry trends and increase performance. Here are a few examples:
The Cornerstone Report: Benchmarks and Best Practices for Mid-Size Banks
Compiled data from a recent survey of 67 banks with assets of $1 billion - $40 billion. The Cornerstone Report: Benchmarks and Best Practices for Mid-Size Banks 2007 provides an in-depth exploration of industry best practices, staffing and process benchmarks, and technology utilization and deployment for mid-size banks.
The Cornerstone Report: Benchmarks and Best Practices for Credit Unions
The Cornerstone Report: Benchmarks and Best Practices for Credit Unions provides more than 250 benchmarks and over 100 best practices from a survey of 60 credit unions with assets of $350 million and up. The report, aimed at helping credit unions achieve high performance and operational execution, identifies trends that will impact credit unions today and in the future.
Cornerstone Advisors, through more than a decade of working with financial institutions, has developed a comprehensive database of benchmarking statistics for mid-size banks ($1 billion - $40 billion in assets). With data collected from nearly 100 banks in this target range, we developed the Cornerstone Scorecard, a document that provides a bank with comparison spending, staffing, and performance statistics in 12 key areas. The Cornerstone Scorecard is an essential tool for your senior management team, identifying the dollar value benefit of achieving peer median performance in underperforming areas.
The Cornerstone team founded critically acclaimed GonzoBanker, an electronic compilation of "observations, ruminations, predictions and random thoughts on financial services." The weekly GonzoBanker newsletter, which was labeled "hip and flip" by American Banker, is frequently used as source material for industry reporters and reprinted by financial institutions, vendors and trade groups.
Cornerstone is Strategic Technology Partner to the Credit Union Executives Society for its CUES Technology Edge online information resource. Cornerstone executives regularly contribute research, studies and expertise on emerging technology topics to the credit union community through CUES Technology Edge.