Tag: Banking & Finance

Alternative Minimum Tax Sneaks Up On Mid-Incomers

What was meant to keep high-income taxpayers from slipping through loopholes is beginning to hit more and more mid-income level folks.

Siloam Hospital Rebounds Its Books

After Penny McClain arrived at Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital in May 2002, she returned to her then home in Gulf Shores, Ala., only once, to change clothes.

Williams Will Retool For Teaching Position

After serving as dean of the University of Arkansas? Walton College of Business for the past 12 years, Doyle Zane Williams said he will take a year to ?retool? before returning to the classroom to teach accounting in the fall of 2006.

For Xmas, Buba?s Got a Brand New Bag

Shopping for the person who has everything? Here are a few unique, high-end items available in Northwest Arkansas for last-minute Christmas gifts.

Beall Barclay No. 1 on Accounting Firms List

Beall Barclay & Co. of Fort Smith is the region’s largest accounting firm.

Land Costs Spike Home Prices

The price of the average starter home goes up as land becomes more expensive. In a few months, area developers won?t even build new homes that cost less than $140,000.

Mortgage Mania Keeps Marching

Interest rates may be on the rise and the home refinancing boom over, but loan origination offices have been popping up in Northwest Arkansas, and the industry shows no sign of slowing.

Banks Must Split Share of $8.22B In Area Deposits

Fayetteville-chartered Arvest Bank continues to have a stranglehold on the market, with $2.22 billion in deposits in Benton and Washington counties, or a 43 percent share of the market.

Credit Union Assets Gain 5 Percent for Arkansas Best

Arkansas Best Federal Credit Union in Fort Smith, the largest credit union in Northwest Arkansas, saw its assets climb about 5 percent from $72.9 million in 2002 to $76.6 million last year.

NWA Counties Top Bank Deposit List

Benton, Washington and Sebastian counties are near the top of the list of counties in the state with the highest dollar value of bank deposits, as of June 30, 2004.

Hidden Hills Helps Homes (Real Deals)

Construction has begun in the Hidden Hills duplex subdivision off Moody Lane in Springdale.

United Bank Gets New CFO

Greg Allen is the new executive vice president and chief financial officer of Springdale?s United Bank.

Guard Changes At A.G. Edwards

In February, Jim ?Doc? Holladay will retire from A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in Fayetteville. He has been a broker there since 1964, the year he graduated from Arkansas Polytechnic College and the year A.G. Edwards opened the Fayetteville office.

Beall Barclay Provides Patience, ?Wealth Care?

Since July 2002, Beall Barclay Wealth Management LLC has grown a base of more than 750 clients split between about 400 at its Fort Smith office and the remainder in Rogers.

NW Exec Salaries Top State

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. accounts for one-third of Arkansas? Top 10 highest-paid executives.

Act Now on Deductions (James P. Weller Commentary)

James P. Weller, the manager of Wealth Transfer Planning at Bank of Arkansas in Tulsa, offers timely tax tips for business owners.

Smith Barney Planning Rogers Digs, More Pros

Smith Barney, a financial services firm owned by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., plans to open a 5,500-SF office in Rogers? Pinnacle Hills area in the first quarter of 2005 and move most of its Fayetteville staff to that location.

Stephens Inc. Runs with Bulls

The Fayetteville office of Stephens Inc. handles about 7.5 percent of the Little Rock firm?s $10 billion in assets under management.

Economy on Track Despite Booming ?90s

An economic boom in the late 1990s has Americans thinking that anything less is a weak economy, said Jeff Collins, director of the University of Arkansas? Center for Business and Economic Research.

Community Changes Name to Chambers

Community Bank of North Arkansas has officially changed its name to Chambers Bank of North Arkansas.

Arkansas to lead National Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship expansion

The Supply Side: Boomer generation concedes spending power to young consumers

2nd cohort of new lithium accelerator shows innovations in Bentonville

Weekly wages up 4.2% in Arkansas, Benton County leads with 13.4% wage gain