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Chase Ogden
Quantitative Consultant
Darling Consulting Group
As a consultant with DCG’s Quantitative Risk Analysis and Strategy team, Chase brings over a decade of programming and modeling expertise. Chase provides a unique perspective of the entire analytics lifecycle, having served in a variety of roles from model developer to senior leader of enterprise-wide, cross functional analytics implementations.
As a practitioner at large and mid-sized financial institutions, Chase has experience in a wide array of modeling approaches, applications, and techniques, including: asset-liability models, pricing and profitability, capital models, credit risk and allowance models, operational risk models, deposit studies, prepayment models, branch site analytics, associate goals and incentives, customer attrition models, householding algorithms, and next-most-likely product association.
Chase is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and holds Master’s degrees in International Commerce Policy and Applied Statistics from George Mason University and the University of Alabama, respectively. A teacher at heart, Chase frequents as an adjunct instructor of mathematics and statistics.

Joe Montalbano
Quantitative Consultant
Darling Consulting Group
Joe is a Quantitative Consultant at Darling Consulting Group (DCG) where he supports the company’s mission to help financial institutions manage their balance sheet risk and improve their risk-management capabilities. Joe primarily works in the realm of DFAST model validation, ensuring that clients’ models and processes are methodologically sound and aligned with regulatory expectations.
Prior to working at DCG, Joe spent a total of six years with Moody’s Analytics and SunGard Ambit Risk & Performance, where he gained extensive experience developing credit rating scorecards and DFAST stress testing models. His experience also extends to ALM risk, gap analyses, economic capital and enterprise-wide risk.
Joe earned his Bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University.
We are grateful for the trust you place in DCG for CECL advisory consulting.
We hope you join us for our next periodic webinar update. These sessions are intended to keep you abreast of key CECL topics in between our regular quarterly results meetings with you.
Topics to be covered include:
Updated Oxford economic forecasts
2025 econometric model selection results
Horizontal CECL validation insights
DCG model validation update
DCG ongoing monitoring update
This will be an opportunity for you to ask questions in advance of quarter end, as well as benefit from hearing the questions of your peers.
We invite you to share this webinar invitation with other team members who may find the discussion helpful.
We will distribute a recording of the session to all registrants.