SAFE Banking will also enable more banks to begin offering conventional loan products to cannabis operators, with a lower cost of capital than currently available from the mostly nonbank lenders filling this void today. read more >

Lynn Zeno of Little Rock was awarded the Allan Kennedy Memorial Award by the Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas. Liberty Mutual/Safeco was selected as the Company of the Year. read more >

A startup that offers financial services to the cannabis industry has scored $800,000 from investors. read more >

Dan Roda, a product of Philadelphia, went to law school at nearby Villanova University, and there he met the woman he would follow back to her home: Arkansas. read more >

Pinpointing legally permissible real estate for the state’s first medical cannabis enterprises after a 2016 legalization vote was like plunging into the haystack to find the perfect spot for a needle, those involved in the process say. read more >

Elizabeth Michael has teamed up with Martin Thoma of Thoma Thoma to create Bud Agency, the marketing and PR firm devoted to the new medical marijuana industry. read more >

A Little Rock company that originally planned to offer medical marijuana consumers a cashless method for filling their prescriptions has broadened its scope to include financing for marijuana-related businesses. read more >

MediPays of Little Rock has rebrands its full-service online banking platform for marijuana-related businesses with a new name, Abaca. read more >