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We know you work hard to build a life for yourselves, create nest eggs, and save toward retirement. Arvest wants to empower you to protect your hard-earned money and stay safe from imposter scams that target both personal and business accounts. 

Small businesses are the heartbeat of our communities. We love sharing stories where one “yes” makes all the difference, especially when everyone else was saying “no.”

April is financial literacy awareness month, so it’s a great time to assess your financial goals and determine whether you are using all the tools available to achieve them.

“It takes a village” is a common phrase that evokes qualities such as care, support, vulnerability, progress and unity.

Why is it important to make sure that Arvest has the most reliable and quality information on you? Because your financial safety depends on it. 

The Arvest Women of Work (WOW), one of our Associate Impact Groups, embarked on a mission to directly influence the next generation of financial decision-makers by partnering with Girl Scout Troop 1517 of the Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma Region.

Equity compensation for key employees—stock options, stock grants, and the like—has become ubiquitous at major American companies. The reasons for this development may be traced to the early 1990s.

​One of the critical and complex challenges family business owners face is establishing a succession strategy. This includes considering how to divide the business's value among heirs while retaining the business within the family.

Did you know that business bank accounts don't have the same protections that federal law affords consumers when it comes to recovering from fraudulent transactions?

Collections of federal estate and gifts taxes amount to a rounding error in the federal budget these days.

Taxes are a necessary part of life, but in the words of Judge Learned Hand, “there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.”

As society evolves, scammers evolve. Scammers are once again changing their tactics to gain access to your personal sensitive information by using FaceTime.