
Rock Bancshares Also On the Hook to Farmers & Merchants Bank
Simmons Bank of Pine Bluff wasn’t the only bank creditor of Rock Bancshares Inc. Farmers & Merchants Bank of Stuttgart was owed $687,271. read more >
Simmons Bank of Pine Bluff wasn’t the only bank creditor of Rock Bancshares Inc. Farmers & Merchants Bank of Stuttgart was owed $687,271. read more >
The second-quarter results continued in the red at two Little Rock banks doing business under regulatory agreements. read more >
Dave Dickson was installed Tuesday as the 2017-18 chairman of the Arkansas Bankers Association at the group's 127th annual convention in Little Rock. read more >
Heartland Bank of Little Rock enters a written agreement with the Federal Reserve a day after emerging as a creditor to a hedge fund that federal prosecutors have described as "Ponzi-esque." Heartland and its lead shareholder, Walter Quinn, have suffered from the collapse of the oil and gas industry. read more >
More than five years down the road from the bursting real estate bubble, Little Rock’s Heartland Bank and its largest shareholder were battered by loans related to another sector: oil and gas. read more >
The parent company of Heartland Bank is raising $3 million “to meet the working capital needs of the holding company while we’re preserving the capital of Heartland Bank,” said Judy Lawton, president. read more >
For women in Arkansas’ banking industry, every encouraging development seems to be matched by discouraging reality. read more >
Among Heartland’s biggest and worst energy-related loans is one connected with a shale play in the New Albany formation of eastern Illinois. read more >
Heartland Bank of Little Rock and its parent company, Rock Bancshares Inc., have started 2016 amid changes in management, board membership and more. read more >
Judy Lawton has worked as a chief financial officer for most of her 34-year career in banking. She recently celebrated her 11th anniversary as CFO and chief operating officer at Bryant’s Heartland Bank, which she helped transform from a $44 million-asset thrift into today’s $244 million-asset lender. read more >
Judy Lawton has been working in banking for 32 years, the past nine with Heartland Bank of Bryant. At Heartland, she has helped what was a small, publicly traded thrift transform into a commercial bank that is still small ($202 million in assets) but stable and profitable ($2.7 million in net income in the first half of 2013). read more >