by - February 7, 2018 3:34 pm
Bill Holmes says 2018 will look a lot like 2017 for the state’s banking industry. “And 2017 was a good, healthy year for banks in our state,” Holmes said. Holmes,…
by - February 7, 2018 8:40 am
While planning continues for its new banking center in Northwest Arkansas, Danville-based Chambers Bank is planning to relocate its lone Benton County office to a more high-traffic area in Rogers….
by - February 6, 2018 5:56 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods will hold its annual shareholder meeting Thursday (Feb. 8) morning at its new offices on Emma Avenue in downtown Springdale – near the spot where the company…
by - February 6, 2018 5:24 pm
Casey’s General Stores has plans for a new location at 12000 U.S. 71 in Huntington, moving the Iowa-based company closer to 40 convenience store locations in Arkansas since opening its…
by - February 4, 2018 10:01 am
Stephens Inc. CEO Warren Stephens continues to expand his “This is Capitalism” video series, a digital effort he started to respond to the 2016 Presidential election cycle. Stephens said he…
by - February 4, 2018 10:00 am
Economist Mervin Jebaraj sees “moderate” growth for the U.S. economy in 2018 despite tax cuts that are purported to jump-start a stimulus for higher-than-usual growth. Jebaraj, who heads the UA…
by - February 1, 2018 11:28 am
The Federal Open Market Committee didn’t change the federal funds target rate, leaving it at a range of 1.25% to 1.5%, according to an FOMC statement. The federal funds rate,…
by - February 1, 2018 10:22 am
Conway-based insurer American Safeguard Insurance (ASI) has opened a new location in Mountain Home and promoted and appointed Jeremy Davis and Jason Smith as managing partners. ASI announced the news…
by - February 1, 2018 7:49 am
Arkansas Federal Credit Union, the state’s largest financial cooperative, has announced a donation of $101,619 to Arkansas Children’s. The donation is the first of a five-year commitment that will help…
by - January 28, 2018 8:44 pm
After the 2016 Presidential election, Stephens Inc. CEO Warren Stephens was determined to do something to turn around public opinion on “capitalism.” Citing the performance in the Democratic primaries of…
by - January 24, 2018 3:52 pm
J.B. Hunt Transport Services will pay a 24-cents per share cash dividend on Feb. 23 to stockholders of record Feb. 9. The Lowell-based carrier announced the dividend payment Wednesday (Jan….
by - January 23, 2018 9:41 am
Little Rock-based independent financial services firm Stephens Inc. has expanded its public finance presence in Texas with the hiring of Curt Shelmire as senior vice president and manager of Texas…
by - January 22, 2018 6:55 pm
Simmons First National Corp., which expanded its reach into Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado in October, closed out its 2017 financial books with strong fourth quarter results and total assets topping…
by - January 22, 2018 1:49 pm
Allan W. “Dick” Horne, a former municipal judge in Little Rock and senior partner of longstanding Little Rock law firm Dover Dixon Horne PLLC, has died. He was 85. Horne…
by - January 19, 2018 10:52 am
Janet Moore has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Batesville-chartered The Citizens Bank. Moore joined the bank in 2014 as senior vice president of operations….
by - January 18, 2018 10:30 am
Little Rock-based Bear State Financial Inc. closed out its final earnings period Thursday, (Jan. 18) as a publicly traded concern. For the period ended Dec. 31, the Arkansas community bank…
by - January 18, 2018 10:10 am
Acquisition-hungry Home Bancshares Inc. closed out the fourth quarter and 2017 with well over $14 billion in assets, aided by a blockbuster Florida merger and a year-ending surplus resulting from…
by - January 17, 2018 1:01 pm
Ray C. Dillon has been named to the Stone Bank Board of Directors. Dillon was formerly the president and chief executive officer of Deltic Timber Corporation and was an executive…
by - January 17, 2018 11:30 am
Bank of the Ozarks Chairman and CEO George Gleason told Wall Street analysts that the fast-growing Arkansas banking giant plans to continue expanding its profitable real estate specialties group and…
by - January 16, 2018 8:32 am
Bank of the Ozarks closed out another historic year with record fourth quarter and yearly earnings and a $50 million boost from the GOP’s recent tax reform package, the fast-growing…
