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The banks serving active duty personnel

Independent Banker

Under Larry Wilson’s leadership, First Arkansas Bank and Trust’s branch on the Little Rock Air Force Base was named the 2020 Air Force Bank of the Year. Community banks operate on a majority of the country’s military installations. Community banks comprise more than two-thirds of the 66 banks operating on U.S.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

PYMNTS

Speaking before Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, senior member of the House Committee on Financial Services, and the rest of the committee, witnesses from the Fed and other areas of the payments community offered their support to FedNow — but not without caveats. Accessibility Beyond Big Banks.

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Regulators Close Ark. Bank in Year's Fifth Failure

American Banker

Arkansas regulators have closed the $66.3 million-asset Allied Bank in Mulberry, the fifth institution to fail this year.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #4 Bank of the Ozarks

Jeff For Banks

(Nasdaq: OZRK) of Little Rock, Arkansas Over a 100-year banking history, Bank of the Ozarks expanded from its headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas, to more than 100 locations throughout the Southeast and is consistently ranked among the top performing banks in America (see chart). How did they grow so quickly?

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Acquire or Be Acquired 2018: Breaks, Bulls and Business Models

Gonzobanker

After years of pain and heartache around the letters C-F-P-B, bankers were ecstatic at the appointment of “hands off” Mick Mulvaney as interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and his decidedly “non-Cordray” approach to financial regulation. 2: The Bulls. Source: Federal Reserve.

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