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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. By Judith Sears.

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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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Internal Memo: Simon To Reopen 49 Malls In May

PYMNTS

The properties in Texas, Indiana, Alaska, Missouri, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee will not be limited to curbside-pickup reopening like the ones happening in Texas, the report said. On March 31, Simon said it had furloughed 30 percent of its workforce and permanently laid off other employees.

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Podcast: ‘Folks Who Are Low-Wealth Also Need Wealth Advisers’

ABA Community Banking

Homeownership, savings and holding down a job are three keys to financial well-being and moving out of generational poverty, so that's what Southern Bancorp focuses on in its home Mississippi and Arkansas Delta region, one of the nation's poorest.

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More M&A in Arkansas

ABA Community Banking

Bank owned by Walton family to take out prominent bank in state Management M&A.

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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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The Future Of In-Store Pick-Up With Lockers

PYMNTS

In addition, the lockers help Home Depot “maintain its lead over Amazon and others in the home improvement space,” Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData ’s retail division, has said. Amazon has reportedly signed contracts with apartment owners and managers representing more than 850,000 units across the U.S.

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