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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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Walmart, Nextdoor Launch Neighbors’ Helping Initiative

PYMNTS

to ask for help or offer assistance to people in their communities by shopping at Walmart. . Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures and others. Last year, they had $514.4

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Facebook Live Now Offers Tipping

PYMNTS

The social media company is striving to help gamers obtain fame and engage communities and followers across the Facebook, Instagram and Oculus platforms, with the goal of luring them away from YouTube and Twitch. Those competing services offer ad revenue, the ability to tip and other subscription and monetization opportunities.

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Home in Arkansas Close to Buying Unnamed Florida Bank

American Banker

billion-asset company disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it has a letter of intent to buy an unnamed banking company in Florida with about $400 million in assets.

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Home BancShares' chief takes pay cut after investors reject executive comp

American Banker

Johnny Allison, the Arkansas company's chairman and CEO, agreed to reduce his base salary by 20%.

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

In Arkansas, Jim S. Its staff had about 40 people, many of its procedures were manual, and its competition was stiff with about five community banks as head-to-head rivals. Louis Federal Reserve District to file for a financial holding company designation. Today, the company is more than 32 percent employee-owned.

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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?