Financial Institutions Regional In-Person Networking Events

 

Join colleagues from fellow financial institutions to exchange strategies for tackling some of today’s biggest financial industry market challenges. These unique events are meant to connect leaders from across the region, build relationships and facilitate conversation around emerging trends and how to leverage the Axiom solutions and services to positively position you for success.

Upcoming Events


Past Events


DFW Peer Networking

Join colleagues from fellow financial institutions to exchange strategies for tackling some of today’s biggest financial industry market challenges. This unique event is meant to connect leaders from across the region, build relationships and facilitate conversation around emerging trends and how to leverage the Axiom solutions and services to positively position you for success.

Objectives:

  • Understand what trends your peers are seeing in the industry and how they plan to address those challenges

Miami Peer Networking

Join colleagues from fellow financial institutions to exchange strategies for tackling some of today’s biggest financial industry market challenges. This unique event is meant to connect leaders from across the region, build relationships and facilitate conversation around emerging trends and how to leverage the Axiom solutions and services to positively position you for success.

Objectives:

  • Understand what trends your peers are seeing in the industry and how they plan to address those challenges

Relationship Profitability & Pricing

 

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Price and Manage Portfolios Based on Relationship Profitability


The Axiom™ Relationship Profitability and Pricing System (RPPS) provides the framework to build and manage complex relationships, understand and leverage profitability analytics, and accurately price new business―allowing you to optimize profitability and best serve customers.

 

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Generate Comprehensive Reporting

Provide your relationship managers with reports detailing their portfolio profitability and empower management with profitability data to fuel business decisions and incentive compensation plans

Incorporate Costing Data

Apply costs at the customer account and transaction levels to ensure accurate relationship profitability calculations. Leverage cost rates by product or transaction from Axiom or utilize a third-party source

Get A Rolling Profitability View

See the current and historical profitability for each account and customer based on matched-term funds transfer pricing calculations of net interest margin, non-interest income and expense, and provision for loan loss

Compare Pricing Scenarios

Select the best pricing scenarios to support the relationship and optimize profitability; automatically generate and submit the proposal with supporting profitability calculations and metrics

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Strata’s Axiom® Financial Institutions Suite has received full Model Risk Certification 

This certification from MountainView Risk & Analytics reinforces Strata’s commitment to delivering trusted, transparent, and compliant financial planning and analytics tools for banks and credit unions.

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Who We Help

The Axiom Relationship Profitability and Pricing System (RPPS) provides a single solution serving institution leaders, relationship managers and other front-line staff.

Leadership

Institution leaders in finance and lending rely on the analytical capabilities of Axiom RPPS to:

  • Employ a consistent calculation approach for historical and projected profitability

  • Understand the risks and opportunities around top and bottom-performing relationships

  • Incent profitable growth through evaluation and compensation of front-line performance

Front-Line Staff

Relationship managers, loan officers, branch managers and other front-line staff need better visibility to your institution’s relationships and their economic impact. Axiom RPPS helps you:

  • Price new business based on empirical profitability, quickly understanding current relationship contribution, margin impact of adding products, forecasted ability to meet your hurdle rate, and which pricing scenario maximizes client satisfaction

  • Best serve each client, leveraging visibility to the full breadth of a client's relationship and associated accounts

  • Maximize portfolio profitability, identifying top and bottom performing relationships to inform relationship plans and business decisions

Fully realize the value of each account, customer, and relationship in your portfolio
 

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Funds Transfer Pricing & Profitability

 

 

In today’s competitive financial landscape, understanding the true contributors to net interest margin (NIM) is essential. Strata’s Axiom® Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) solution helps financial institutions move beyond averages and assumptions — delivering precision and transparency across customers, products, and organizational units. 

With matched-term precision, scalable modeling, and rich analytical capabilities, Axiom FTP equips finance leaders to make better, faster decisions. 

 

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Leverage Precision at the Account Level

Axiom FTP is purpose-built to calculate accurate transfer pricing rates at the instrument or account level. Whether for loans, deposits, or structured products, the solution models and applies FTP charges and credits based on key characteristics, including: 

 

Embedded options 

 

Yield curve selections and market benchmarks 

 

Expected cash flows 

 

Origination date and term 

Achieve Smarter Margin Management

FTP helps financial institutions go beyond rate-setting — it enables a deeper understanding of profitability.

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With Axiom, you can: 

  • Allocate margin accurately across lending, deposit gathering, and risk management activities 

  • Assess pricing and contribution by customer, channel, product, or officer 

  • Model the incremental impacts of rate or volume changes 

  • Drive margin transparency and accountability across the institution 

  • Inform pricing strategies, planning models, and compensation programs 

  • Calculate risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) across any dimension by allocating economic capital to ensure that risk and reward stay aligned

With drill-down capabilities to the transaction level and customizable rules, you’re always in control of your assumptions and your outcomes.

Move Beyond Just a Calculation Engine 

Axiom FTP surpasses traditional rate models. It combines powerful transfer pricing logic with a full suite of integrated profitability and analytics tools: 

  • Ranking reports by profitability or return metrics 

  • Risk/return analyses for performance optimization 

  • Funding center reports to identify internal value transfer 

  • Incremental impact analysis of new business or market changes 

  • Rate-volume analytics to understand key margin drivers 

These insights help institutions better align resources, refine product pricing, and guide leadership with confidence.

Access a Solution Designed for Financial Institutions 

Built with the unique needs of banks, credit unions, farm credit associations, and non-depository lenders in mind, Axiom FTP offers: 

  • Matched-term pricing algorithms for record-level precision 

  • Configurable FTP rules with base and adjustment rate logic 

  • Multi-threaded processing engine for high-volume scalability 

  • Robust ETL tools for automated, validated data integration 

  • Role-based security and access control for sensitive reporting 

  • Interactive dashboards with point-and-click drill-down to account detail 

From operational users to senior executives, everyone gets the insights they need — fast.

Build Insights with Seamless Integration 

As part of Strata’s unified Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform, Axiom FTP integrates natively with: 

  • Profitability analysis 

  • Budgeting and forecasting 

  • Planning models 

  • Incentive compensation frameworks 

This connected environment ensures that FTP insights flow across your financial processes, strengthening strategy, execution, and performance. 

 

 

Unlock the True Drivers of Profitability 

With Axiom FTP, your institution gains a sharper lens into margin, a more accurate allocation of value, and the tools to drive performance across every dimension. 

Turn FTP from an exercise into a competitive advantage. 

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Budgeting & PLANNING

Streamline Your Budgeting Process


Create and manage planning models that are connected to your market and operational drivers.
With Axiom Software, your budgeting process is more efficient and accurate through automated consolidation
of budgets across departments, branches, or markets

  • Evaluate the finance impact of changing assumptions

  • Leverage enterprise-ready workflows, top-down spread, role-based security, and automated report production

  • Improve budgeting accountability and accuracy

  • Integrate daily general ledger, HR, fixed assets, transaction detail, and other system data

  • Leverage Excel familiarity for business rules and reports without complex scripting

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Prepare for Potential Impacts on Your Financials


Model and monitor the impact of shifting interest rates, lending rates, and loan volumes on your financial outcomes and performance indicators. Integrate the resulting driver-based forecasts with long-term financial plans and operational budgets to arm leadership for effective strategic and tactical planning.

Change Is Inevitable. Timing Is Unpredictable. Model Your Scenarios and Mitigate Risk.

Real-time answers on the impact of changes in interest and lending rates, operating costs, and staff with dynamic, “What if” modeling

Aggregate projected changes into financial planning portfolios to map overall impact on budgets

Drill down into individual budgets and forecasts to see how changes would impact the branch or department level

Forecasting and Scenario Modeling

Next Level Financial Planning

Calculate cash flow projections at the record level, aggregating them into planning portfolios to improve accuracy in net interest margin planning and provide better focus on incremental new business. Our cash flow planning software enables data analytics, enhances data visibility, and allows you to build a cash flow forecasting model into the standard budgeting process. View loans and deposit records in portfolios—including those set to mature and reprice.

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Better Predict Your Net Interest Margin

Use your interest rate forecast, runoff of existing balances and rates, impact of new originations, and optional funds transfer pricing (FTP) rates to generate your cash flow forecast, more accurately predicting projected balances, yields, and FTP spread (if used) to inform a cash flow-based budget.

Improve Scope And Accuracy

Process fixed, adjustable, and variable records across all instrument types in our cash flow engine, adding prepayment assumptions so your future cash flows reflect a more realistic view of customer/member behavior.

Stay Nimble with What-if Scenarios

Anticipate potential market conditions by modeling “what-if” scenarios, and be ready to adjust your risk-adjusted cash flow plan and projections to reflect changes in product mix, pricing, spread and more.

Discover the Axiom Difference

Strengthen your ability to compete in a changing marketplace with industry-leading software
that solves enterprise planning challenges for financial institutions

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Axiom™ Financial Institutions Suite - Rethemed

 

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Driver-Based Financial Planning


Transform your financials—from inputs to outcomes—with our driver-based budgeting, planning, and forecasting software.

Streamline your budgeting process, seeding the budget based on growth assumptions, while improving accuracy with distributed data inputs and automated consolidation of budgets across departments, branches, or markets.

Perform dynamic "what-if" modeling to easily quantify the impact of scenarios.

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Funds Transfer Pricing and Profitability


Get visibility into the customers, segments, branches, and products that drive the greatest value for your institution. We pull all the pieces together, calculating FTP, and allocating non-interest income and expense, loan loss, and capital, with transparent measurement processes.

 

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Relationship Profitability software dashboard

Relationship Profitability and Pricing


Understand a client’s total sphere of influence. This easy-to-use tool lets you build complex relationships, precisely measure profitability for each relationship, customer, and account, and accurately price new business.

 

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Find out how Axiom can help improve your financial and organizational performance

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Tech Specs


 

System Information

  • Cloud hosting on Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft® .NET interface that leverages Microsoft® Excel®
  • Microsoft® Power BI® data visualization and analytics, optimized for Axiom
  • Full browser compatibility
  • Word Integration

Automated Data Integration

Includes a robust, highly configurable data connector that can be set up to connect to a variety of data sources in a matter of minutes - like general ledger, payroll, fixed assets, and loan and deposit systems. You can select the frequency of automatic synchronization. Our open integration ensures that you can connect to virtually any GL or instrument data source for clean, trusted data.

Security & Compliance

  • Role-based security for complete control over how your data is accessed and shared

  • SSAE-18 SOC Type II (SOC2) audited by BDO USA, LLP according to AICPA standards

  • Microsoft’s Azure HIPAA Compliance framework, which includes a BAA Contract Addendum and ISO 27001 audit controls, as well as SOX and GLB regulatory compliance

Strata Academy - StrataJazz

Learn more about the StrataJazz Administrator Certification program and upcoming sessions. 

StrataJazz Administrator Certifications are available across a range of modules. Each certification includes virtual, instructor-led training and an assessment in the form of a project and exam. Upon completion of all components, learners are granted a certification in their module. Each certification is designed to give you the tools and knowledge you need to successfully work as an administrator in StrataJazz.  

Looking for self-paced training courses? There are available for free to Strata customers within Strata Academy.  

How can I get the most out of StrataJazz Certification?

Strata recommends attending StrataJazz certification classes after you have started your implementation. Having some basic exposure to the StrataJazz platform before you attend class will improve your class experience. The implementation process includes training from your consultant that is tailored to your organization’s specific needs and builds on the fundamentals covered in certification.  

You may also choose to attend certification class after your organization has completed implementation as a refresher on key administrative tasks and workflows or as part of your onboarding as a new StrataJazz administrator.  

Unsure as to whether certification is right for you? Reach out to the Strata training team at strataacademy@stratadecision.com.  

Registration closes 7 days before the class!

Advanced Planning


 

Analytics


 

Decision Support 


 

Axiom Administrator Certification

Learn more about the Axiom Certification program and upcoming sessions. 

Axiom certification packages are designed to meet the needs of specific user roles. Each package includes a series of courses to meet the needs of that role. Axiom courses are applicable across industries and are focused on features available across the Axiom platform. These are listed within the Certification Directory below.  

In addition to offering role-based certification packages, Strata also offers stand-alone hands-on labs focused on the following topics: Advanced Spreadsheet Reporting, Axiom Intelligence – Web Reporting, and Axiom Intelligence – Visual Insights. These are listed within the Course Directory below and are purchased separately from the certification packages. 

CPE credits are available for attending Axiom courses. Credits are distributed at the course level – to learn more, review the information for individual courses.  

Looking for self-paced training courses? There are available for free to Strata customers within Strata Academy.  

How can I get the most out of Axiom Certification?

Axiom certification packages contain a series of courses. Strata recommends spacing out your attendance of these courses rather than attending all courses back to back.  

Registration closes 7 days before the class!

Axiom Certification Packages


 

Axiom Training Courses