1 Promoted as Garland & Greenwood Expands (Movers & Shakers)
Blake Abston is now the head of Garland & Greenwood Wealth Advisors, a new registered investment advisor firm under Garland & Greenwood CPAs and Advisors PLLC of Little Rock. read more >
Blake Abston is now the head of Garland & Greenwood Wealth Advisors, a new registered investment advisor firm under Garland & Greenwood CPAs and Advisors PLLC of Little Rock. read more >
Nicole Hobbs, who specializes in nonprofit tax, joined the firm in 2017 as a manager in its tax department. read more >
Batesville’s First Community Bank is expanding its footprint with branches in two new markets, while Fidelity Bank of West Memphis is branching outside Crittenden County. read more >
He was the only broker in Arkansas to receive the award. read more >
During federal fiscal years 2017-20, Arkansas lenders made more than $658 million loans through the Small Business Administration’s 7(a) program. Of that total, only about $10 million or 1.5% went to Black-owned businesses in the state. read more >
Southern Arkansas University celebrates the opening of its First Financial Bank Poultry Education Facility on the north side of its Agriculture Center. read more >
Rod Beckham, the mortgage division president of First Financial Bank of El Dorado, says the residential real estate market is hot. read more >
A pair of south Arkansas bank companies completed acquisitions this month. read more >
Kevin Williams has been appointed president of Union Bank of Mena, and Jarrod Yarnell has been named chief executive officer of Union Bankshares, the holding company for Union Bank and First National Bank of Paris. read more >
Craig Mobley has been promoted to chief operating officer of First Financial Bank of El Dorado, and Chris Johnson has been named regional market president for the state of Arkansas. read more >
The proposed sale of Wynne’s First National Bank to First Financial Bank of El Dorado represents a $60.2 million cash transaction. read more >
Jennali Cybulaski has been named vice president and private banking adviser at Arvest Bank in Little Rock. She will serve central Arkansas in this new role. read more >
First Financial Bank of El Dorado announced Thursday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire First National Bank of Wynne, which has branches in Cherry Valley, Forrest City, Harrisburg, McCrory and Wynne. read more >
El Dorado’s First Financial Banc Corp. recently launched a $25 million capital raise, an 18.5% boost to its current equity capital of $134.6 million. read more >
Shane Gauthier, Scott Walker and Trey Clark have received promotions at First Financial Bank in El Dorado. read more >
Arvest Bank of Fayetteville is closer to completing its $391 million all-cash acquisition of Bear State Bank of Little Rock, the two companies announced Monday. read more >
In 2015, Chris Hegi was named CEO of First Financial Bank of El Dorado, now a $919 million-asset lender. read more >
Over the years, the west side of the Prospect Building has served as a branch for financial institutions such as Little Rock’s Union National Bank and Worthen National Bank of Arkansas. read more >
Four of the leading banks in Arkansas were recognized this spring as top-performing lenders. The measuring stick used by the Independent Community Bankers of America: three-year average return on assets. read more >
Two Little Rock lenders continue to battle through losses in search of a return to sustained profitability: Heartland Bank and One Bank & Trust. read more >
