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Southern Bancorp is building wealth for everyone

Independent Banker

Southern Bancorp partners with other community banks to increase loan accessibility and financial literacy to low-income customers. As CEO of Southern Bancorp, Darrin Williams wants to promote relationships between community banks and CDFIs to create more prosperous communities. Better serving its communities.

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Podcast: The Girl Banker on Career Advancement and Life Lessons

ABA Community Banking

Natalie Bartholomew is chief administrative officer at Grand Savings Bank in northwestern Arkansas, but she is probably better known for her popular blog "The Girl Banker," which provides advice on career advancement and work-life balance for women in banking as well as spotlighting female leaders in financial services.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank. In Arkansas, Jim S. Merchants & Planters Bank. Once he gets his mind set, a plan forms and then becomes a very calculated reality,” offers Tara Salinas, the bank’s marketing and business development officer. Central Region Award Recipient. Jim Gowen Sr. Newport, Ark.

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

Jeff For Banks

But he held firm that the regulatory environment, changing customer preferences, and the pace and expense of technology were driving the market towards bigger is better. 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.

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ICBA Live, Making Relationships Matter

Social Assurance

No, I don’t just mean family-owned banks, but the sense of family that is present in small institutions that genuinely care for each other. Engagement Marketing Banking community banking ICBA Relationships' Lunchin' with the MainStreeters next to sun and palms! ICBALive15 pic.twitter.com/Eotv5JvAWq.

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

Gonzobanker

At the same time, most bank executives agreed that a 20%-25% increase in earnings from the tax break is being earmarked for investments in their franchises: market expansion, raises for employees and, of course, technology investments. Prosperity is now $22 billion with an unbelievable $5 billion market cap.

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