St. Vincent West Attracts $14.1 Million Transaction (Real Deals)
A 45,952-SF St. Vincent West medical office building in west Little Rock tipped the scales at $14.1 million. DOC-16221 St. Vincent Way MOB LLC, an affiliate of Physicians Realty Trust of Milwaukee,...
View ArticleFayetteville's Legacy Building Bought for $3.2M (NWA Real Deals)
An investment group paid $3.2 million for 13 condominiums in the Legacy Building at 401 W. Watson St. in Fayetteville. The Legacy Investors Group LLC, led by Mitchell Massey and Todd Ross, bought the...
View ArticleWalnut Ridge Three Scheduled for Sentencing on Bank Fraud
These things can sometimes change at the last minute, but at press time the Walnut Ridge Three were scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Little Rock later this week. We refer, of course, to...
View ArticleSPONSORED: How To Prepare For The Fourth Quarter
With Arkansas Razorbacks football season finally here, many of us will be blocking out time in our Saturdays for the next few months to watch the games. It’s been a long summer of anticipation to see...
View ArticleSimmons Bank Opens Third Branch in Fayetteville
Simmons Bank of Pine Bluff has opened a third branch in Fayetteville, at 2025 Crossover Road. "We're committed to this growing region, and our newest location will offer greater accessibility and...
View ArticleUpdate: Brenda Montgomery Gets 57 Months in Prison for Lawrence County Bank...
Virginia Smith Fields repeatedly turned to glare at Brenda Montgomery as she pleaded, unsuccessfully, with U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker to reject a plea deal under which Montgomery would spend...
View ArticleBank of the Ozarks Contributes to Statewide Deposit Growth
Arkansas bank deposits grew at a 7.5 percent clip in the year that ended June 30, handily beating the national growth rate and topping $60 billion for the first time as the number of separate bank...
View ArticleThird Walnut Ridge Defendant Gets Shorter Sentence, Co-Conspirators May Benefit
Sharp-eyed lawyering resulted in a shorter prison term for the last of the defendants to be sentenced for stealing almost $4 million from First National Bank of Lawrence County, and it could bode well...
View ArticleKatie Chandler Promoted at HoganTaylor (Movers & Shakers)
Katie Chandler has been promoted to tax partner at the Little Rock office of accounting firm HoganTaylor LLP. Chandler, a certified public accountant, was previously with the Little Rock accounting...
View ArticleMarketers Don Hale, Kirby Williams Work Bankers’ Hours
El Dorado advertising executive Don Hale had a job opportunity at a bank, so he called a friend for advice. That friend was Hot Springs marketing pro Kirby Williams, who as fate had it was just...
View ArticleToday’s Bank Takes On Teetering Allied
The Allied Bank staff was still a little shell-shocked when they convened at the main office in Mulberry on Saturday, Sept. 24. The day after regulators took over the $66.3 million-asset lender,...
View ArticleMerger Talk Developing Between Pinnacle, Central Banks
Did you know a proposed merger of Pinnacle Bank of Rogers and Central Bank of Little Rock is in the works? Neither Central’s president and CEO, Wade Ruckle, nor Pinnacle’s president, David Bordovsky,...
View ArticleSPONSORED: Four Steps For A Healthy Medical Practice
When there's a medical emergency, the tradition goes, someone will shout, "Is there a doctor in the house?" The same can be true for your medical practice and its financial health. If someone is...
View ArticleReport: Arkansas Revenue Down Again in September
LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas' revenue is $32 million below expectations for the first three months of the fiscal year, state revenue officials said Tuesdayafter sales and corporate income taxes in September...
View ArticleUpdate: Waldrip Family to Purchase Forrest City Bank
One of the smallest banks in Arkansas is being sold to a newly formed holding company. Big Creek Bancshares, formed in September by Mark Waldrip of Moro (Lee County) and his son, Nathan Waldrip of...
View ArticleWaltons Among Forbes' Top 20 Richest
The Walton family has fallen out of the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of the country's 400 richest people. The list, out this week, shows the members of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton's family —...
View ArticleSentences Reduced for Two Walnut Ridge Embezzlers
The prison sentences ordered for two Walnut Ridge bank embezzlers were reduced by six months on Wednesday thanks to the sharp eye of their co-defendant's lawyer. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Givens...
View ArticleFinTech Accelerator to Host Virtual Roundtable on Regulation
The Venture Center's FinTech Accelerator will host a virtual roundtable on Oct. 26 via YouTube Live with U.S. Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) and U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) over compliance and regulation...
View ArticleMaf Sonko Taps Wire on Little Rock's Tech Community
Maf Sonko founded LumoXchange in 2015 and serves as the startup’s CEO. He previously worked for six years at PepsiCo, first as a warehouse strategy manager then as a senior manager in supply chain...
View ArticleSmithsonian Puts Spotlight On AutoMail
A northeast Arkansas company, AutoMail, has been added to a new virtual exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in recognition of technology it developed in the 1990s that...
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