
Abaca Lands $1.35M Investment
The company will use the money to “keep fueling our national expansion,” said CEO Dan Roda. read more >
The company will use the money to “keep fueling our national expansion,” said CEO Dan Roda. read more >
Here's how central Arkansas was an incubator at the beginning of marijuana fintech. read more >
Neobanks offer digital and nontraditional banking services through an app or platform, with no physical branches. read more >
Mohamed O. Elasri has been named associate vice chancellor for research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. read more >
Growth has come at a blazing pace for the company. read more >
Arkansas medical marijuana retailers have generated $190 million in sales since May 2019. Accounting for them is a challenge and an opportunity, professionals say. read more >
Hot Springs dispensary owner Dragan Vicentic's penchant for paying for cannabis in cash, disdaining electronic payments, gives marijuana cultivator reason for blacklisting. read more >
Dalton Craig and John David have joined AgHeritage Farm Credit Services in Little Rock as credit analyst trainees. read more >
Josh Baker has been promoted to city president for Citizens Bank in Hot Springs. read more >
The advertising gods giveth, and they taketh away, particularly these days. read more >
Vince Laborde, Sean Russell and Mara Williams are new members of Abaca, a cannabis financial technology firm based in North Little Rock. read more >
Cannabis financial technology firm Abaca Co-founder Brian Bauer is transitioning to a full-time role with Abaca as the chief strategy and revenue officer. read more >
A North Little Rock enterprise, launched in the Little Rock Technology Park and given flight with venture capital from Colorado, keeps pioneering its way into the burgeoning billions of cannabis commerce. read more >
Elizabeth Michael, a partner in the Bark Bar and a PR veteran in Little Rock, describes how the newly opened AC Hotel in downtown Little Rock came to be her client. read more >
Adam Grimmett’s reason for insuring Arkansas’ new medicinal marijuana industry is personal. An Afghan war veteran, he wants to help ex-service members. read more >
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 >