Motorists who regularly drive downtown may dread next year’s replacement of the Broadway Bridge, but Little Rock and transit officials don’t expect the $98.4 million project to cause many problems for area businesses.

Southern Bank — a $1.3 billion financial institution based in Missouri, but with locations in seven Arkansas cities — has launched CardValet, a security service in mobile app form allowing customers to control “when, where and how” their credit or debit card is used, a bank news release said.

HUB International, a global insurance brokerage headquartered in Chicago, has entered the Arkansas market by acquiring Little Rock’s multiline brokerage The Holmes Organisation, a company news release stated.

Inuvo Inc., an advertising technology and digital publishing company in Conway, has launched SearchLinks, a suite of native ad units for mobile and desktop publishers, according to a company news release.

Alliance Rubber Co. of Hot Springs has added Mover Bands, heavy-duty rubber bands capable of stretching to nearly twice their resting length, to its list of products, the company announced recently.

A micro-refinery in DeWitt is the test site for a much larger initiative by Delta Bioenergy, a project powered by Communities Unlimited of Fayetteville, a nonprofit. The organization’s goal is to provide infrastructure services to underprivileged areas and allow for lasting economic and entrepreneurial growth.

Declining gasoline prices that cut demand for biodiesel and the increasing popularity of compressed natural gas as a fuel are two other factors behind the industry’s doldrums, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and others say.

The University of Central Arkansas in Conway has launched UCA Online, an online course portal offering three new undergraduate completion programs.

RaiseTheMoney.com, a nonpartisan online fundraising company in Little Rock, signed on 71 new campaigns in June, totaling more than 200 accounts since its founding 18 months ago by Chris Stewart, the company’s CEO.

Almost 90 years and four generations after Felix Scholsser started his first meat market, the ham, bacon and other products of Morrilton Packing Co. are gradually gaining an audience in far-flung places — southeast Arkansas, Texas and, through a private-label relationship with Whole Foods, as far away as Colorado and California.

Farmers Insurance recently announced that it has begun offering Arkansas drivers rideshare insurance coverage in response to the state’s new ride-sharing law, Act 1267, which was signed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson in early April.

Seth McCurry, a 26-year-old entrepreneur with Painting with a Twist art studios in North Little Rock and Little Rock, has opened a location in Fort Smith.

The Sissy’s Log Cabin location at Grant and R streets in Little Rock is set to expand this summer “in an effort to continue making Sissy’s Log Cabin an exciting customer experience,” a company press release said.

The Arkansas Business list of the state’s largest trade and professional associations is back after a four-year hiatus, complete with 15 new entries because of greater participation.

Victory Blue, a national manufacturer of diesel exhaust fluid, held an open house recently to celebrate the opening of its new manufacturing facility at 700 Dixie St. in North Little Rock.

Pediatrics Plus is enlarging its Conway facility by 22,000 SF, an expansion that on completion will bring 10 new jobs.

William Porterfield — a long-time executive broker at Pike Realty Group and then executive broker for Blackwood Realty, both of Little Rock — has been appointed to head Redfin’s central Arkansas operation as market manager and principal broker.