News & Events Archive – May 2010

DD&F Consulting Group is proud to announce a new joint venture, “Enhanced Asset Solutions”

DD&F Consulting Group is proud to announce a new joint venture, “Enhanced Asset Solutions” with Gaines Dittrich, President and CEO of Dittrich and Associates. This relationship will allow DD&F to provide our clients with the most extensive and broad based expertise in managing troubled assets available. For more information about this new alliance call Randy [...]

Josh Dennis and Zach Dennis recently graduated from Barret School of Banking

Josh Dennis and Zach Dennis recently graduated from Barret School of Banking in Memphis, TN with honors and Kyle Shadid completed his second year of the 3- year at the banking school.

Kudos! to DD&F Loan Review Consultant, Adam Gilbert, who recently passed his bar exam

Kudos! to DD&F Loan Review Consultant Adam Gilbert, who recently passed his bar exam. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! To our newest clients for their recent and successful FDIC assisted acquisition:
Community First Bank, Butler MO-BC National Banks (4/30/10)
Simmons First National Bank, Pine Bluff, AR-SouthWest Community Bank (5/14/10)

Randy Dennis quoted in “M&A advisers find work in failed-bank deals”

SNL Financial | Monday, May 10, 2010

Traditional M&A activity has been scarce in recent quarters, but according to information available to SNL Financial, investment banks are ramping up their participation in government-assisted deals to pick up the slack.

Two investment banks, DD&F Consulting Group and Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc., have [...]

Randy Dennis, President of DD&F Consulting quoted

Arkansas Business | Monday, May 03, 2010

If a bank tells you its most valuable asset is its people, you might take it quite literally.

Though it’s considered a “mature” financial instrument (the opposite of “new-fangled”), bank-owned life insurance, or BOLI for short, is an increasingly valuable instrument for banks to pay for executive benefits [...]

Randy Dennis, President of DD&F Consulting quoted

Arkansas Democrat Gazette | Saturday, May 01, 2010

LITTLE ROCK — Metropolitan National Bank, which has been under federal regulatory sanctions for almost two years, continued its string of negative quarters with a $2.6 million loss in the first quarter, the troubled Little Rock bank said Friday.

The loss compares with an $8.6 million loss [...]