The easement in oversight, combined with recent community bank failures, presents a timely opportunity for independent agents to provide expert risk management services and guidance to their clients in the banking sector. Independent agents can offer invaluable counsel to help protect banks from both the inherent and residual risks they face. (Photo: Shutterstock)

The financial crisis of 2008 shook the financial institutions sector. Confidence in the market and institutions plummeted. In the years that followed, the sector underwent an evolution, working to rebuild trust in the once failing system with new regulations.

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