One Bank exec’s hire gets U.S. office’s OK
The federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has approved Jim Schnoes as chief financial officer, executive vice president and director of One Bank and Trust in Little Rock.
The federal regulator filed its first sanction against One Bank in 2011 and has since filed two more.
Schnoes has 30 years’ experience in financial management, primarily in the transportation industry, One Bank Chief Executive Officer Jerry Pavlas said in a prepared statement.
- David Smith Communicators set to hold LR workshop
The Arkansas Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators will hold a workshop on June 28 to explore the “tsunami of professional change.”
The meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Engineering and Technology Building at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The featured speaker will be Nancy Voith, managing director of Communication Research Associates in Radnor, Pa. She will discuss 10 significant tools to ensure relevancy, learning how to leverage the networking website Linkedin and discovering individual stature among communications professionals.
The event is for all professional communicators, including advertising agencies, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and freelancers.
Cost is $75 for association members, $50 for students and $100 for nonmembers.
Registration can be done online at iabcarkansas.
com or by contacting Neal Moore at neal.moore@ sbcglobal.net.
- David SmithArkansas Index dips 0.27; 9 stocks rise
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, dropped 0.27 to 278.94 Monday.
Before the market close, the index reached another all-time high, hitting 279.97 during the day, before retreating.
“Stocks struggled to find direction after mixed economic reports indicated that retail sales unexpectedly rose in April while inventories remained unchanged for a second consecutive month,” said Bob Williams, senior vice president and managing director of Delta Trust Investments Inc. in Little Rock.
“Mirroring the major market indexes, Arkansas Index component stocks were mixed with nine issues advancing and sevendeclining.”
Acxiom rose just over 2.5 percent in heavy trading, matching a 52-week high of $20.85 during the day, Williams said.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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