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A gift that will keep on giving

Independent Banker

L to R, Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, FNB president/CEO Sam T. Just as much a part of western Arkansas history as its hometown, $1.84 Just as much a part of western Arkansas history as its hometown, $1.84 The clubhouse at the Jeffrey location, a community gathering place since 1978, was in dire need of improvements.

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New York To Sunbelt State Tourists: Stay Home

PYMNTS

The quarantine will go into effect at midnight and will cover all visitors from a range of states “with significant community spread of COVID,” the governors wrote in a statement posted on Twitter.

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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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Simmons First to Close 10 Branches for $1.6M in Yearly Savings

American Banker

plans to close 10 banks across four states by the end of the second quarter: three branches in Arkansas, four in the Missouri and Kansas region and three in Tennessee. Simmons First National in Pine Bluff, Ark.,

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Excited To Help People

Independent Banker

In Arkansas, Jim S. Central Region Award Recipient. 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. In rural communities like ours, the consumer has a lot of needs,” he explains. Jim Gowen Sr. Newport, Ark.

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How the $10B Red Line Could Reshape Southeastern Banking

American Banker

A dozen banks from Arkansas to Virginia are nearing $10 billion in assets, where they will face higher compliance costs and caps on interchange fees. Mergers among those institutions could create a new class of regional bank.

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

Jeff For Banks

Neither supported this regional president''s opinion. 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).