by - February 4, 2021 1:21 pm
Armor Bank has hired Sue Colinger as Marianna market president. This comes after the bank’s announcement last fall regarding its acquisition of the Marianna branch of Farmers and Merchants Bank….
by - February 4, 2021 9:05 am
Fayetteville brokerage AcreTrader, the online farmland investing platform, said Thursday (Feb. 4) that it quadrupled its investor pool in 2020. In a news release outlining the company’s growth, founder and…
by - February 2, 2021 6:12 pm
A bill that would index the state’s standard tax deduction to correlate to inflation was introduced Tuesday (Feb. 2) in the House Tax and Revenue Committee meeting. HB1190 was proposed…
by - February 2, 2021 9:27 am
Benton County Judge Barry Moehring announced Tuesday (Feb. 2) a partnership with Springdale-based nonprofit Excellerate Foundation to manage more than $8 million in federal rental relief that is available to…
by - January 31, 2021 1:17 pm
CARTI announced last week it closed and funded more than $51 million in refunding bonds for its flagship campus, the CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock. The refinancing is expected…
by - January 30, 2021 10:26 am
CEOs with more connections earned greater stock returns following purchases or sales of their companies’ shares, a new study shows. Researchers Tomas and Dobrina Jandik, both finance professors at the…
by - January 28, 2021 4:52 pm
The chairmen of the Joint Budget Committee and House Revenue & Tax Committee want to provide tax relief for Arkansans who may not even know they could owe it. On…
by - January 28, 2021 11:57 am
Batesville-based First Community Bank has received regulatory approval and finalized the purchase of property at 766 Harkrider Street in Conway, Arkansas, the bank announced Thursday (Jan. 28). The property, located…
by - January 28, 2021 11:40 am
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the Jan. 18 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business…
by - January 28, 2021 11:22 am
Former Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin will return to his banking roots. First Security Bank announced Thursday (Jan. 28) that Perrin, a former banker, will join the Searcy-based financial institution as…
by - January 26, 2021 1:01 pm
Net income in 2020 was $254.9 million for Simmons First National Corp., better than the $237.8 million in 2019, the Pine Bluff-based regional banking company reported Tuesday (Jan. 26). Revenue…
by - January 26, 2021 9:02 am
Natural Capital, an Arkansas-based private investment firm, said Tuesday (Jan. 26) it has hired Melissa Kempkes as vice president. She previously served at Oklahoma City-based i2E as the investment portfolio manager. According…
by - January 24, 2021 4:50 pm
Sen. Jonathan Dismang, R-Beebe, co-chair of the powerful Joint Budget Committee, has some strong opinions on the direction legislators want to prioritize for spending the state’s $6 billion annual budget…
by - January 24, 2021 4:40 pm
Tanenbaum Equity Partners (TEP), a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based commercial real estate developer Gardner Tanenbaum Holdings, recently picked up a $92 million funding agreement from Arkansas-based Centennial Bank. The funding…
by - January 21, 2021 3:56 pm
Little Rock-based Bank OZK on Thursday (Jan. 21) reported that full-year net income was $291.9 million, below the $425.9 million in 2019, with “significant” allowances for credit losses a big…
by - January 21, 2021 3:08 pm
Arvest Equipment Finance (AEF) closed more than $279 million in new production in 2020, a record total for the division of Arvest Bank. The production numbers were announced Thursday (Jan. 21)….
by - January 21, 2021 1:06 pm
Los Angeles-based fintech startup Sootchy Inc. has tapped into the Northwest Arkansas talent pool to grow the company that recently launched an app to help people save money for college….
by - January 21, 2021 11:25 am
Home Bancshares, parent company for Centennial Bank, posted strong fourth quarter earnings as the Conway-based financial institution recorded its third straight record quarter despite the coronavirus pandemic. Net income was…
by - January 21, 2021 9:26 am
Southern Bancorp, Inc. announced Thursday (Jan. 21) it has entered into a merger agreement to acquire DeWitt First Bankshares Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Arkansas County Bank, a $185…
by - January 20, 2021 3:49 pm
Denver-based Western Union has struck a deal with Bentonville-based Walmart to offer money transfer services alongside competitor Money Gram, which manages Walmart’s transfer services. Western Union said the move inside…
