Candace Franks

The latest round of appointments includes new members of the State Medical Board and Arkansas Economic Development Commission. read more >

Candace Franks, commissioner of Arkansas state banks for the past 13 years, announced on Wednesday that she will retire on Oct. 1 after 40 years with the State Bank Department. read more >

Candace Franks, the Arkansas state bank commissioner, says total assets under supervision have almost doubled since 2012. 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 >

In Arkansas, the number of new bank offices appears to have popped up in the past 12 months after a decade in which the count declined by more than 10 percent. read more >

The narrative of the report is dominated by criticism of the Goldens, by title rather than name, and the bank board they held sway over. read more >

On one side is a new industry desperately needing local banking services. On the other side are bankers salivating at potential deposits and fee revenue. Between them is a federal government that outlaws marijuana. read more >

The Allied Bank staff was still a little shell-shocked when they convened at the main office in Mulberry on Saturday, Sept. 24. The day after regulators took over the $66.3 million-asset lender, employees gathered to learn what the future held under the new ownership of Today’s Bank of Huntsville. read more >

For women in Arkansas’ banking industry, every encouraging development seems to be matched by discouraging reality. read more >

Why are community banks — including some in Arkansas — increasingly deciding that now is the time to sell? Aaron Brooks writes that the reasons go well beyond Dodd-Frank. read more >

Most regulated industries don’t get to choose who regulates them, but, to a limited degree, banks do. And while the door can swing both ways, in reality the traffic has flowed in one direction: converting from national charters to state charters. read more >

The Dodd-Frank Act celebrated its fifth anniversary last week, but it’s probably safe to assume many community bankers in Arkansas didn’t feel like partying. read more >

Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson will retain Candace Franks as commissioner of the Arkansas State Bank Department. read more >

Last week’s news that Simmons First National Corp. will be collapsing its six smaller charters into its flagship Pine Bluff bank was surprising only in that it took so long. read more >

Some have described 2013 as a memorable year for its bank-buying buzz. Expectations are that the volume of acquisition talk won’t diminish during 2014 either. "A lot of community banks are considering their options, especially smaller community banks looking at the regulatory costs going forward," said Candace Franks, Arkansas State Bank Commissioner. read more >

The northwest Arkansas housing market may be rebounding, but lenders remain a familiar sight among the ownership rolls of residential lots and undeveloped acreage all over Benton County. read more >