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

Jeff For Banks

Bank of the Ozarks began in 1903 as a small community bank in Jasper, Arkansas, and by 1937, included an additional bank in Ozark, Arkansas. Since that time, the company has grown to more than 100 locations throughout Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida. How did they grow so quickly?

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Fizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor

PYMNTS

At the end of 2017, a handful of Chinese provinces and the country of Georgia were home to 75 percent of the world’s bitcoin mining, while only 3 percent was happening in the U.S. Frankly, whenever miners arrive, communities aren’t so willing to roll out a red carpet — because, as neighbors go, miners are kind of a fizzle.

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