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Practical Solutions for Community Banks and Credit Unions

Optimize how your financial institution grows, manages risk, and profits.

Data-informed marketing. Credit risk management tools. Funding and investing solutions. Whatever you need, OptimaFI helps your community financial institution achieve sustainable profitability growth.

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“In a nutshell, the time savings and sharper insights OptimaFI gives us provide more focused information to help us make better strategic decisions.”

Cindy Cheng

SVP & CCO
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“I give OptimaFI high marks. They use our language and speak to the metrics we compare ourselves to. It's the easiest way to find out what other banks are doing in one or two clicks.”

Jon Drake

Senior Executive VP & CFO
Peoples Bank

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“You can trust that OptimaFI is looking at trends far beyond your organization to give you a good strategic roadmap.”

Dawn Simon

Executive VP & Chief Experience Officer​
WEOKIE Federal Credit Union

“Reports that once took 20 minutes each to produce now take about 5 seconds. This is where OptimaFI shines, creating major efficiencies and time savings in portfolio reporting, research, and more.”

Matt Wright

VP & Loan Review Officer
Lincoln County Bancorp, Inc.

It’s hard to find time for progress when every quarter feels reactionary.

Keep your institution growing, profitable, and compliant, with adaptable growth, credit risk management, and balance sheet management solutions that support your team year-round.

Growth

Need to drive measurable deposit and loan growth?

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Credit Risk

Facing examiner pressure or resource-heavy loan reviews?

Jump to Credit Risk Solutions

Balance Sheet

Need to optimize balance sheet funding or investing?

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Grow deposits and loans - Household Penetration

Growth Solutions

Turn core data into deeper relationships and defensible results.

Tired of paying for uncertain growth strategies? OptimaFI marketing campaigns help you grow loans and deposits, long-term household retention, and products per household — and you only pay for actual, realized results at the end of the campaign. This pay-for-results model gives you a risk-free way to:

  • Grow deposits and loans through marketing campaigns
  • Activate new customers faster with smarter onboarding
  • Deepen relationships using cross-sell insights
  • Tie account growth to marketing and deliver defensible ROI analysis
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Risk Grade Distribution Comparison

Credit Risk Solutions

Strengthen oversight, reduce surprises, and stay exam-ready.

OptimaFI is a software-enabled alternative to CPA firms who don't understand your business — whether you need to identify emerging risks, streamline documentation, or maintain examiner-ready reports. From CECL modeling to stress testing, you get quick, easy, and cost-effective solutions to:

  • Get automated or full-service loan reviews
  • Detect portfolio risks earlier and with more precision
  • Forecast credit gains and losses confidently
  • Simplify CECL and regulatory preparation
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Long-Term Trend

Balance Sheet Solutions

Turn liquidity pressure and reporting demands into clear, manageable decisions.

Finance leaders need a faster, more reliable way to raise funding, invest excess cash, and keep boards and examiners confident. OptimaFI gives you direct, peer-to-peer access, Call Report insights, and benchmark data that reveals early trends and supports better balance-sheet decisions, so you can:

  • Raise or invest deposits directly, without broker fees
  • Use flexible options, like callable CDs, to manage yield
  • Produce clear reports for ALCO, boards, and regulators
  • Benchmark against peers to support pricing/funding strategy
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We've sat in your seat, from boardroom to branch.

We understand your world and the results that truly matter. With 200+ years of combined banking experience, we're committed to delivering practical solutions for community banks and credit unions.

Software ready to use in minutes, not months

Solve an immediate growth, liquidity, or compliance challenge without complex setup.

Consulting & advisory services by former bankers

Get hands-on support and specialized guidance from experts who’ve been in your seat.

Integrated partnership programs

Align growth, finance, and credit functions under a coordinated strategy.

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Why 2,500+ community banks and credit unions choose OptimaFI.

Our team has lived your challenges and built solutions to solve them, backed by trusted data, sound controls, and decades of banking experience.

200+ yrs

combined experience across former CFOs, CCOs, CMOs, and credit leaders

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independently audited

12B+

normative data points powering peer benchmarking and performance insight

Top community banks and credit unions trust us to drive sustainable profitability growth.

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Experience adds up — and we’ve delivered measurable results for over 40 years.

Why choose OptimaFI? Because, behind every partnership lies decades of experience, billions in growth, and the trust of thousands of U.S. institutions.

$250B+

deposit funding enabled
in the last 20 years

$27B+

deposits and loans
generated

40

years serving community
banks and credit unions

2,500+

community banks and credit
unions in our network

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All community bankers need to answer four fundamental strategic questions when it comes to relationship banking: What type of customer do I want to serve? How do I engage those customers, bring them onboard and capture their wallet? How do I manage the evolving risk associated with that relationship? How do I understand and manage the profitability of those relationships across various accounts in dynamic economic cycles?

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Tues, June 16-18, 2026
Texas Bankers Association 23rd Annual CFO Conference

The constant change in the community bank CFO’s environment — regulatory, legislative and accounting — is creating very real challenges and burdens. In the shifting landscape of the financial services industry, CFOs are confronted daily by situations that call for a range of expertise. This conference will help you stay current on the issues affecting you by covering the most relevant topics needed to succeed in this rapidly changing environment.

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We’ll help you optimize both sides of the balance sheet.

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