SPONSORED: Four Steps For A Healthy Medical Practice
When there's a medical emergency, the tradition goes, someone will shout, "Is there a doctor in the house?" The same can be true for your medical practice and its financial health. If someone is...
View ArticleReport: Arkansas Revenue Down Again in September
LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas' revenue is $32 million below expectations for the first three months of the fiscal year, state revenue officials said Tuesdayafter sales and corporate income taxes in September...
View ArticleUpdate: Waldrip Family to Purchase Forrest City Bank
One of the smallest banks in Arkansas is being sold to a newly formed holding company. Big Creek Bancshares, formed in September by Mark Waldrip of Moro (Lee County) and his son, Nathan Waldrip of...
View ArticleWaltons Among Forbes' Top 20 Richest
The Walton family has fallen out of the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of the country's 400 richest people. The list, out this week, shows the members of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton's family —...
View ArticleSentences Reduced for Two Walnut Ridge Embezzlers
The prison sentences ordered for two Walnut Ridge bank embezzlers were reduced by six months on Wednesday thanks to the sharp eye of their co-defendant's lawyer. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Givens...
View ArticleFinTech Accelerator to Host Virtual Roundtable on Regulation
The Venture Center's FinTech Accelerator will host a virtual roundtable on Oct. 26 via YouTube Live with U.S. Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) and U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) over compliance and regulation...
View ArticleMaf Sonko Taps Wire on Little Rock's Tech Community
Maf Sonko founded LumoXchange in 2015 and serves as the startup’s CEO. He previously worked for six years at PepsiCo, first as a warehouse strategy manager then as a senior manager in supply chain...
View ArticleSmithsonian Puts Spotlight On AutoMail
A northeast Arkansas company, AutoMail, has been added to a new virtual exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in recognition of technology it developed in the 1990s that...
View ArticleSandy Straessle Hired at Stone Bank (Movers & Shakers)
Sandy Straessle has been named a customer service manager for the Little Rock branch of Stone Bank of Mountain View. Straessle most recently was a teacher at Our Lady of the Holy Souls School in Little...
View ArticleFuture Bank of the Ozarks HQ Site Draws Deals Totaling $12M-Plus (Real Deals)
Land for a corporate campus in west Little Rock was assembled in deals totaling $12.57 million. Little Rock’s Bank of the Ozarks Inc. acquired about 46.2 acres of mostly undeveloped property in a...
View ArticleDeveloper Brandon Woodrome’s $2M Fraud Seen From The Inside
Brandon Woodrome was a young man in a hurry: out of school early, married early, starting businesses early. He even ran for office before he was old enough to drink. In 2013, the year he turned 26, his...
View ArticleLittle Rock's Metrocentre Mall District Begins Dissolution Process
Property owners in downtown Little Rock’s Metrocentre Improvement District No. 1 are finally getting a break from decades of shouldering $12.5 million of debt. Special improvement taxes on more than...
View ArticleNational Rate for Unbanked Falls to 7 Percent in 2015
The percentage of U.S. households that are “unbanked,” meaning no one in the household has a bank account, fell to 7 percent in 2015, compared with 7.7 percent in 2013, according to preliminary results...
View ArticleDeadline Extended in Phil Herrington Bankruptcy Case
The trustee for Little Rock developer Philip Herrington withdrew a request last week that his bankruptcy be converted from reorganization to Chapter 7 liquidation. A hearing on the issue had been...
View ArticleBank of the Ozarks' 3Q Net Income Up 65 Percent
Bank of the Ozarks Inc. of Little Rock on Tuesday reported record third-quarter net income of $76.0 million, up 65 percent from the same quarter last year, as it completed two major bank acquisitions....
View ArticleArkansas Casino Backers Project $122M Tax Revenue Boost
LITTLE ROCK - Supporters of a plan to legalize casinos in three Arkansas counties are projecting the move would create an additional $122 million in tax revenue each year and thousands of new jobs, but...
View ArticleReport: Arkansas Consumer Sentiment at Highest in 2 Years
As the nation's economy expanded this summer, Arkansans reported feeling more confident than at any time in the past two years, according to the fall 2016 Arvest Consumer Sentiment Survey released...
View ArticleLuter Family Gives $1M to ASU College of Business
A northeast Arkansas banker and his wife have given $1 million to the Arkansas State University business college. Charles and Kay Luter announced the donation Thursday evening at the college's...
View ArticleMaumelle Townhomes Attract $8.5M Transaction (Real Deals)
More than five dozen townhomes in Maumelle weighed in at $8.5 million. EIIC LLC, led by Jean Eiler, purchased 61 townhomes in The Villas at Audubon near the northwest corner of Audubon and Club Manor...
View ArticleArvest Introduces Asa Cottrell as SVP, Sales Manager for Central Arkansas...
Asa Cottrell has been promoted to senior vice president and sales manager for Arvest Bank in central Arkansas. Most recently, Cottrell served as a senior vice president and manager of Arvest Wealth...
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