Lydia Smith Named Director of Mortgage Production at Southern Bancorp Inc. (Movers & Shakers)
She previously was vice president of diversity lending at InQlusion Mortgage Capital. read more >
She previously was vice president of diversity lending at InQlusion Mortgage Capital. read more >
Southern Bancorp Inc. names former state legislator Charles Blake as its Little Rock market executive. read more >
Carroll Penick and Bryan Scoggins have been elected. read more >
The U.S. Treasury announced the grant recipients from their Equitable Recovery Program last week. read more >
Premier Bank is a $213 million asset bank with three branches in Marion, West Memphis and Jonesboro. read more >
The addition of the $227.4 million-asset bank, which operates full-service offices in Craighead and Crittenden counties, will enlarge Southern Bancorp’s footprint to 16 Arkansas counties. read more >
It took more than a decade for Southern Bancorp Bank to double its tally of total assets from $1 billion to $2 billion. The top executive of the bank’s parent company expects the journey to $4 billion will be much shorter. read more >
He replaces Karama Neal, who earlier this year was appointed to a position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. read more >
The stockholders at DeWitt First Bankshares Corp. are looking at a $26.1 million payday in the pending sale to Southern Bancorp Inc. of Arkadelphia. read more >
Southern Bancorp Inc. of Arkadelphia says it will acquire DeWitt First Bankshares Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Arkansas County Bank. read more >
Arkansas Business asked industry leaders to share their expectations for 2021, both before and after the coronavirus vaccine is widely available. Here’s what they said. read more >
Bank of America recently acquired about 5% of shares in Southern Bancorp Inc. of Little Rock, worth about $5 million. read more >
George Floyd’s death in May in Minneapolis set off protests against police brutality and racism nationwide, but it had an unforeseen effect on Arkansas banking. read more >
Arkadelphia’s Southern Bancorp Inc. has joined the ranks of Certified B Corporations, an Arkansas first. read more >
Supportive family members cried in a Hot Springs courtroom Friday morning as Berry R. Bishop, the Hot Springs insurance agent who also had offices in Prescott and Arkadelphia, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for bank fraud totaling more than $4.3 million. read more >
Karama Neal, president of Southern Bancorp Community Partners, gives credit to "critical mix" that have kept her company at the forefront of public policy. read more >
Southern Bancorp Inc., the Ross Foundation and Murphy Oil Corp. are spending millions on Promise scholarships that sponsors and an administrator say have increased the college-going rate of high school graduates in Arkadelphia and El Dorado. read more >
Southern Bancorp Inc. of Little Rock raises $17.7 million through a recent capital campaign. read more >
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The pending $4.5 million sale of Farmers Bank of Hamburg will further pare the headcount of Arkansas lenders with less than $50 million in assets to four. read more >
