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Building a Risk-Focused Culture: A Framework for Modern Financial Services

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According to Artisan’s risk specialist, Dan Bagus: “An enterprise risk management program should serve as the rudder of the strategic planning process for every institution – large or small—and operate in service to the specific goals and objectives of the strategic plan.”  Get the full white paper, “Building a Risk-Focused Culture: A Framework for Modern […]

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Understanding Opportunity Zone 2.0

Understanding Opportunity Zone 2.0: Key Changes and Bank Strategies

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By Barry Wides, CPA Managing Director, Artisan Advisors  The recently enacted 2025 Tax and Spending Bill introduced significant changes to housing and community development programs that affect banks. This article, the second in our series, examines the bill’s revisions to the Opportunity Zone (OZ) tax incentive—now called “OZ 2.0.”  Background: Opportunity Zone 1.0  The original

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OCC Highlights Key Areas of Focus for Bank Examiners in Spring 2025 Semi-Annual Risk Perspective

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By Barry Wides, CPA Managing Director, Artisan-Advisors  On June 30, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Semi-Annual Risk Perspective (SARP), a 20-page summary of key issues impacting the federal banking system. This report outlines several supervisory issues that may be useful for banks in anticipating areas of focus during

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Artisan Unfiltered Podcast: 2025 Outlook – Jim and Jeff Talk Economics, Interest Rates and Regulatory Events

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The first Artisan Unfiltered episode of the year is now available. “2025 Outlook: Jim and Jeff Talk Economics, Interest Rates and Regulatory Events” takes a deep dive into the outlook for each so far this year and offers a few recommendations for what bankers can do now to prepare for what the rest of the

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Artisan Unfiltered Podcast: Making Sense of CECL

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The latest episode of our Artisan Unfiltered podcast series, “Making Sense of CECL,” is now available for download. It focuses on the important and timely topic Current Expected Credit Losses, or CECL. A credit loss accounting standard that was issued by Financial Accounting Standard Board in 2016 that replaced the Allowance for Loan and Lease

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Podcast: Banking News and the Future of Regulation – Featuring IBA CEO Randy Hultgren

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“Better legislation, not more legislation.” Just one of the points Artisan Advisors’ Jim Adkins and Dave Larson raised when they sat down with IBA President and former US Congressman Randy Hultgren, to discuss the recent bank seizures, the repercussions for the banking industry and where we go from here. Listen now.  

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Artisan in the News – Recent Articles Featuring our Community Banking Experts

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Our team of experts is widely respected in the community banking industry nationwide. Read these recent articles featuring their candid thoughts and extensive knowledge of recent banking topics: Advisory firms pitch community banks on interest rate risk management services (S&P Global Market Intelligence) Bank failures raise questions about future of FDIC deposit insurance limit (S&P

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A Look into the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Collapses from the Artisan Advisors Team

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Like you, the team at Artisan Advisors is processing how a $200 billion bank with a $16 billion market cap on Wednesday can fail on Friday. SVB was followed by an unprecedented Sunday seizure of Signature Bank. Even more amazing, the FDIC closed both without buyers and billions of uninsured deposits at risk. REGULATORS WERE

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