While I love banks and bankers, I confess to enjoying how irritated they get when the subject is credit unions. read more >

Twenty-five other states specifically allow public funds to be deposited in NCUA-insured credit unions — unlike Arkansas, which limits access to public funds to banks only. read more >

We don’t need a presidential speech to tell us what the state of the union is. It’s broken but held together, at least in Arkansas, by individual and communal acts of goodwill, acts that we salute and appreciate. read more >

As the partial government shutdown continues, Arkansas Federal Credit Union will continue to offer interest-free loans to its members who are preparing to miss another paycheck. read more >

As home equity lines of credit revive with the rise of house values, local lenders like Arkansas Federal Credit Union expect more. read more >

An affiliate of Maxus Properties of North Kansas City, Missouri, bought the 12.22-acre Wellington at Chenal Apartments at 15000 Chenal Parkway. read more >

Arkansas Federal Credit Union has 14 branches, more than $1.2 billion in assets and more than 102,000 members. read more >

Transactions totaling $18.6 million includes sales of land, apartments and church's building. read more >

Arkansas Federal Credit Union recently donated $101,619 to Arkansas Children’s Hospital for the renovation of its teen room. read more >

Chef Miles James and his wife, Courtney, sold the 10,000-SF restaurant and the 46-room inn that he opened 23 years ago to Johnson Mills Ventures LLC, led by Jesse Burkes and John Stewart. read more >

Tanya James has been promoted to vice president, private banking adviser at Arvest Bank in Little Rock. read more >

At Arkansas Federal Credit Union, the sole focus is employees, members and the community. The company culture is directly aligned with AFCU’s brand personality traits: happy, entrepreneurial, collaborative and caring. read more >

The Little Rock Technology Park Authority Board is eyeing the last piece of the park's Phase 1 puzzle and is prepared to claim eminent domain to put it into place. read more >

AFCU was originally included in the group of banks that bid to lend money to the Little Rock Tech Park. The Arkansas Bankers Association talked the banks into tossing AFCU out of the club — but not until after the bid deadline had passed, so AFCU couldn’t make its own competing bid. read more >

The Little Rock Air Force Base Federal Credit Union was established in 1956 by seven airmen in a room in the airmen’s housing. More than half a century later, Arkansas Federal Credit Union has seen more evolution than just a name change. read more >

The misinformation employed by the Arkansas Bankers Association to exclude Arkansas Federal Credit Union from the bidding process for the Little Rock Technology Park community development project is reprehensible. The ABA put politics above the potential jobs and economic growth of the community, which speaks volumes about its self-serving agenda. read more >

Arkansas Federal Credit Union was uninvited from participating in the consortium of lenders providing a $17.5 million financing package for the Little Rock Tech Park at the request of the Arkansas Bankers Association. read more >

Eleven credit unions chartered outside Arkansas operate branches inside the state. Most are still associated with specific employers — think FedEx Employees Credit Association in Harrison, Eaton Family Credit Union in Searcy and L’Oreal USA Federal Credit Union in North Little Rock — but some are expanding their membership and their branch networks. read more >

Simmons First National Bank of Pine Bluff has sold off three more leftover Pulaski County branches. read more >

Arkansas Federal Credit Union said Thursday that Rodney Showmar had been named its new president and CEO. read more >