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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

In Arkansas, Jim S. Retail outlets: 11. 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. In rural communities like ours, the consumer has a lot of needs,” he explains. Jim Gowen, Merchants & Planters Bank.

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: HQ Enhancements, Empathetic AI And Special Guest Bernie Sanders

PYMNTS

Alexa’s reach is long and getting longer, now integrated into 100,000 smart home devices in the market. cities could compete, Walmart’s construction of a new HQ in Bentonville Arkansas has been a comparatively quiet affair. Our goal was not to extract things from the community,” he said. . AI Enhancement.

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Best of Show Winner Alpharank Earns Spot in FIS Accelerator

Fintech Labs Insights

Lee Watson, CEO of the Arkansas-based Venture Center, added “together we provide fintech startups with proven go-to-market training, C-suite level mentorship and access to top financial institutions.” Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alpharank demonstrated its data-as-a-service technology at FinovateSpring 2017.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #3 ESB Financial Corporation

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. Last post was dedicated to the #4 Bank, Bank of the Ozarks of Little Rock, Arkansas (see post here ). They had to grow to survive. I challenged the thinking.

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Walmart+ Launch Leaves Open Issues

PYMNTS

“Walmart clearly wants to get the program off the ground sooner [rather] than later in order to make hay in advance of the Christmas shopping season,” said retail consultant Carol Spieckerman, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. In rural markets it would seem that same-day delivery is harder than major metros.

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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. Source: Federal Reserve.

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