by - January 8, 2020 2:06 pm
Arkansas-based Monde Group broke ground Wednesday (Jan. 8) on the Esplanade District, a 41-acre mixed-use neighborhood development in North Little Rock along the Arkansas River. It is located adjacent to…
by - January 7, 2020 2:46 pm
Former Arkansas Speaker of the House and current Regional President for Centennial Bank in Jonesboro Davy Carter has been selected to serve as a Federal Reserve Bank branch director in…
by - January 6, 2020 8:24 pm
Janet R. Moore, a 40-year banking veteran, has joined Stone Bank as Chief Operations Officer. She was most recently chief operations officer and executive vice president with Citizens Bank in Batesville….
by - January 6, 2020 1:35 pm
Officials with a year-old banking option for underserved and unbanked Arkansans say they opened nearly 4,000 certified accounts thus far. Bank On Arkansas+, a special project of the Arkansas Asset Funders…
by - December 29, 2019 9:14 pm
Liberty Park Senior Living of Jonesboro LLC made the most significant residential and commercial property transfer in Craighead County between Nov. 15 through Dec. 15, according to the Craighead County…
by - December 18, 2019 1:41 pm
Springdale-based United Bank has appointed Darrin Pitts as chairman of its board of directors. Pitts has served on the board for the past seven years. Donnie Pitts, his brother, has…
by - December 17, 2019 6:52 pm
Little Rock-based Encore Bank (formerly The Capital Bank) has recruited two new executives to join its leadership team in Northwest Arkansas. Patrick Woodruff and Hunter Norton have joined the bank…
by - December 17, 2019 2:36 pm
In the third quarter of 2019, the average return on assets (ROA) for Arkansas banks was 1.49%, ranking the state’s lenders as the top performers among the seven states that…
by - December 17, 2019 9:52 am
As temperatures cooled down in November, apartment renters also saw a slight drop in lease rates, according to a new report. The average national rent decreased by 0.2% in month-over-month…
by - December 16, 2019 6:19 pm
Arvest Bank promoted Cara James to Chief Risk Officer, effective Jan. 1, 2020. James will replace Bob Kelly, who is retiring after more than 30 years with Arvest, effective Dec….
by - December 12, 2019 2:39 pm
Simmons Bank has promoted Greg Martin to executive vice president and division president for its Northwest Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma markets. The decision comes as the bank’s parent company, Simmons…
by - December 11, 2019 5:31 pm
Bank OZK will invest in the construction of a solar power plant which will provide enough renewable energy to power its new corporate headquarters and up to 40 other Arkansas…
by - December 9, 2019 9:10 am
The chief executive of Arvest Bank’s largest market is moving up the company’s leadership chain. Craig Rivaldo, president and CEO of Arvest Benton County since May 2014, is set to…
by - December 5, 2019 11:18 am
Craighead County and its seat, Jonesboro, have been on a historical sales tax collection run during the last decade, and both are poised to set all-time collection numbers as 2019…
by - December 3, 2019 3:48 pm
Year-to-date gross general tax revenue (July-November) totaled $2.763 billion, up 3.9% from the same period in 2018, with a healthy gain in sales tax revenue and payday timing helping boost…
by - December 1, 2019 9:19 am
With the holiday shopping season off and running, it’s a little too early to predict if total sales will surpass last year or expectations. Economist Mervin Jebaraj says there are…
by - November 25, 2019 2:57 pm
Change is confusing. It can be destructive and constructive, frustrating and liberating, at the same time. What’s certain is there’s no growth without change; and without growth, there is no…
by - November 20, 2019 4:55 pm
FNBC Bank, a $520-million asset community bank headquartered in Ash Flat, has announced it will break ground on a new commercial banking center in Jonesboro in 2020. The bank bought…
by - November 19, 2019 7:34 pm
John Furner, Walmart U.S. CEO, and Judith McKenna, CEO of Walmart International, executed sell orders for part of their direct Walmart shareholdings in recent days, according to filings with the…
by - November 15, 2019 12:56 pm
Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) Secretary Larry Walther announced Friday (Nov. 15) that former State Rep. Charlie Collins will join DFA as Commissioner of Revenue. Collins joins DFA…
