by - August 5, 2019 7:05 pm
The Arkansas Small Business Association is there to help Fort Smith area business, or at least the small ones, get started and continue to flourish. David Moody, deputy director of…
by - August 3, 2019 7:27 am
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the July 22 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business…
by - July 31, 2019 10:47 am
Pine Bluff-based Simmons First National Corp. on Wednesday (July 31) announced the acquisition of a Columbia, Mo.-based community bank in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $435 million. Bank officials…
by - July 29, 2019 1:47 pm
Lowell-based Central Research Inc. (CRI), a provider of management and financial service solutions for government and commercial sectors, announced Monday (July 29) the opening of a 12,000-square-foot call center in…
by - July 28, 2019 6:19 pm
Armor Bank has entered the Jonesboro market by hiring Brock Fletcher as market president and Bryan Wagner as senior vice president of commercial lending and business development. Fletcher and Wagner…
by - July 28, 2019 6:07 pm
First Financial Bank, headquartered in El Dorado, has entered into an agreement to acquire The First National Bank of Wynne and its branches in Cherry Valley, Forrest City, Harrisburg, McCrory,…
by - July 28, 2019 5:09 pm
Economist Mervin Jebaraj said that Arkansas’ record low unemployment rate is a positive, but he warned that it could still be revised like it has in previous instances. Jebaraj, director…
by - July 26, 2019 9:31 am
A panel of housing and real estate economists surveyed by Seattle-based real estate company Zillow predicted Wednesday (July 24) that the nation’s next recession will likely begin in 2020 following…
by - July 24, 2019 6:21 pm
In the midst of the Trump administration’s ongoing trade war with China and efforts to ratify the U.S-Mexico-Canada trade pact, American business investment abroad fell by $62.3 billion to $5.95…
by - July 23, 2019 5:41 pm
ABC Financial Services LLC, the longtime Sherwood-based technology and billing software firm primarily serving the health and fitness industry, has appointed a new chief executive and announced a series of…
by - July 23, 2019 10:39 am
Simmons First National Corp., which has moved its regional headquarters for central Arkansas to the former Acxiom building in Little Rock and established a foothold in the larger St. Louis…
by - July 18, 2019 7:35 pm
Bank OZK on Thursday (July 18) reported that second quarter profits fell short of year ago as a greater volume of loan repayments, the competitive environment for loans and deposits,…
by - July 18, 2019 12:30 pm
Simmons Bank named Alejandro “Alex” Carriles executive vice president and chief digital officer. Carriles’ responsibilities include direct oversight of Simmons’ digital banking strategy, customer experience through digital channels and customer…
by - July 18, 2019 11:48 am
Conway-based Home BancShares Inc. on Thursday (July 18) reported that second quarter earnings were slightly down from a year ago as company officials grumbled about the nation’s “turbulent interest rate…
by - July 18, 2019 11:13 am
Equipment finance can be traced back more than 4,000 years, when Sumerians produced leases on tablets made of clay (not Apple) for agricultural tools and animals. Today, the industry meets…
by - July 17, 2019 10:24 pm
Appearing in lights onstage at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday (July 17) made his annual appeal to ten out-of-state financial technology startups to consider setting up…
by - July 17, 2019 2:55 pm
Fayetteville-based restaurant chain Slim Chickens announced Wednesday (July 17) an equity investment from 10 Point Capital, an Atlanta-based private equity firm. Financial terms were not disclosed. The investment is expected to…
by - July 16, 2019 7:07 pm
Kevin Alpe has joined FNBC Bank as a senior vice president and commercial lender at the bank’s newest branch in Jonesboro according to Chad Hudson, FNBC regional president and chief…
by - July 15, 2019 6:45 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services missed analyst expectations for profit in the second quarter as earnings fell 11.9% while meeting expectations for revenue, which rose 6% from the same period in…
by - July 15, 2019 6:34 pm
A day nearly two years in the making arrived Monday (July 15) in Northwest Arkansas. Several hundred people gathered inside the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art…
