The folks at Bear State Bank declined to comment when we asked a couple of months ago about a tip that some 45 employees had been laid off along about the same time that Mark McFatridge resigned as CEO.
So we’ll just point out that the publicly traded Little Rock bank’s latest call report claimed 437 full-time equivalent employees as of March 31. That’s a reduction of 47 from the Dec. 31 call report — almost 10 percent.