Ally Financial headquartered in Detroit offers online banking, via full service auto finance operations, and boasts a complementary auto-focused insurance business, a growing wealth management and brokerage platform, and a trusted corporate finance business offering capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.
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BankStride
Score 9.1 out of 10
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BankStride is a digital banking solution for loan exception tracking, secure document collection, loan covenants monitoring, loan portfolio management, pipeline management, construction loan management, credit risk reporting, and loan tickler tracking. By automating and streamlining loan exceptions and loan monitoring activities, Bankstride helps commercial banks save time and money, reduce portfolio risk, and close more loans. Features: COMMERCIAL LOAN…
Ally perfectly meets our needs for OKR management. My team uses it to ensure that we are making progress on our quarterly objectives and regularly check in—at minimum, once a week but often more frequently. The only misuses at my company are due to user error, notably when people incorrectly use it for task management rather than measurable goals.
BankStride has saved us a tremendous amount of time and has been a key driver of growth and productivity within our company. The platform makes it easy for borrowers to submit documents, so the number of loan exceptions across our portfolio has decreased substantially. As a result, we can quickly identify pockets of risk within our loan portfolio and take appropriate steps to address areas of concern. It also makes regulatory audits and reporting much easier
Visualizing the hierarchy and relationship between objectives and key results. The nesting and double alignment functionality are especially helpful, as they can't easily be expressed on, say, a simple worksheet or Confluence page.
Reminding the team to make regular check-ins. What gets measured gets done. This prevents the common pitfall of setting goals and not revisiting them until the end of a project (when it is too late).
Integration with external sources for automated check-ins. Why do this manually when it can happen behind the scenes?
Ally and Sigma are very different tools. However, they are both integral to my team's daily work and success. One of their common strengths is the responsiveness of their support team. I always feel that my questions are being answered in a clear and informed way. Another shared strength is the knowledge bases that these tools have built out, which is very helpful for onboarding and answering questions self-serve.
nCino does not offer the automation features that BankStride does, which is why we went with BankStride. nCino is much more expensive (and requires Salesforce) and seems to lag a bit. It's a heavy lift for banks to implement, whereas BankStride can be implemented immediately. I believe BankStride can integrate with nCino which could be helpful, but in my opinion, BankStride is a stand alone product.
