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Bank Succession Planning

According to the American Bankers Association less than 50% of banks have succession plans. With the trend of aging executive management and boards, state and federal regulators are now looking at succession as a major risk.  This risk has not escaped us at DD&F and Randy Dennis, President of DD&F recently covered this issue for [...]

Small Bank Recovery Plans Draw Regulatory Focus

By Jackie Stewart: American Banker

Community banks are getting increased regulatory pressure to beef up their technology platforms and emergency response plans for unexpected events such as hurricanes, floods and
cyberattacks.

Examiners are increasingly asking small banks to showcase how they would recover systems after a disaster, either natural or man-made, industry experts say. [...]

Congratulations to High Performing Arkansas Banks

It has been a great week for Arkansas banks as several top performers received accolades and recognition for their great work in the field of banking:

Bank of the Ozarks was named the top performing regional bank in the nation by SNL Financial based on financials for the year 2011.  To read more about this great [...]

Randy Dennis quoted in “FDIC Asking Failed-Bank Bidders For More”

SNL Financial l March 8, 2012

By Nathan Stovall

The FDIC has increasingly asked bidders of failed banks to sweeten their offers to soften the blow to the deposit insurance fund.

The practice is called the best and final round and has been used in 14 failed-bank [...]

Randy Dennis Quoted in “FDIC Seeks New Definition of Community Bank”

American Banker l February 24, 2011

By Joe Adler

WASHINGTON- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. [...]

Randy Dennis Quoted in “National Signs of Recovery Aside, Northwest Arkansas’ Future Flat”

Arkansas Business.com l December 26, 2011

By Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Staff

Throughout America’s recent recession, state economists, business
leaders and industry insiders repeated a refrain that’s offered only [...]

Randy Dennis Quoted in “Despite Lull, Still More Failures Loom in 2012″

American Banker | December 13, 2011

By Robert Barba

With almost a month since the last bank failure, Friday evenings haven’t been this slow in years.

Don’t make plans to go out.

At least 200 banks remain on the brink. With few prospects for recovery, failures — and the Friday evening death-watch ritual — [...]

DD&F has completed ten FDIC Assisted Acquisitions since beginning of 2011, keeping us as one of the leading firms with completed FDIC acquisitions nationwide.

Congratulations! to our clients for their recent and successful FDIC assisted acquisitions:

Georgia Commerce Bank (Atlanta, GA) acquired CreekSide Bank (Woodstock, [...]

DD&F has completed ten FDIC Assisted Acquisitions since beginning of 2011, keeping us as one of the leading firms with completed FDIC acquisitions nationwide.

Congratulations! to our clients for their recent and successful FDIC assisted acquisitions:

Georgia Commerce Bank (Atlanta, GA) acquired CreekSide Bank (Woodstock, [...]

The recent tornados that swept through Arkansas and our neighboring states have left destruction and devastation along their paths, in many cases in communities where we have clients and friends. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of our clients whose families, customers and communities that have been affected.