Think of bank décor as a drab assortment of framed watercolor landscapes positioned on beige walls behind stiff armchairs? Think again. At First National Bank, generous displays of contemporary art appear to rank just below dollars and cents on bank owner Mark Landrum’s priority list. Nurturing a penchant for fine art, Landrum has amassed a […]
Assistant Vice President, Audit, Asst. Security and BSA Compliance AGE: 32 JOB DESCRIPTION: As you can tell by my title, I really do a little bit of everything, including fraud investigations; research; prevention, efficiency and compliance audits; branch security reviews, including physical security of the people and assets; and anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorist financing compliance assurance.
Looking for the walking definition of serial entrepreneurship? Search no further than Clay Bethune’s office at eNet Payroll Services, the latest in a series of eight businesses he has founded or purchased. Bethune’s companies have covered a wide range of industries, from jewelry (Sterling House), to trucks (Mid America Truck Sales, which he sold in
When local business leader Dave Griggs watches the Hominy Branch Creek flow past The Links, he may be seeing an apt metaphor for what’s happening to Columbia’s once-vaunted economy. Erosion. Last year, an Arkansas developer started The Links: 768 apartments and a nine-hole golf course on 118 acres that today leaches sediment into the creek.
There are jerks in every business. There are some bankers who are jerks. There are some teachers who are jerks. There are some doctors who are jerks. There are some professors who are jerks. There are some insurance people who are jerks. There are some lawyers who are jerks. And there are some developers who
Considering the long lineup of funding requests that will be pitched to voters in the coming years, there is obvious concern among local government officials about the fate of the Boone County road funding issue that will be on the ballot in this November’s election. Voter assent will be required for a variety of ongoing
Sales tax stew overflowing, but road revenue deserves ‘yes’ vote Read More »
How often do we speak of a specific time and place when despair suddenly becomes hope? When discouraging times are rapidly followed by great triumph? I see this pattern not as celestial but as very human, very real and very much the way progress is made. These are moments when players may find themselves in
Although we’ve all heard of Intel, Ben & Jerry’s and FedEx, you may not know that they were all started with the help of an SBA-guaranteed loan from a commercial lender. So were Panera Bread and the amazingly successful Build-A-Bear Workshop chain that was founded in St. Louis. The U.S. Small Business Administration was established
High-tech cards and phones could change the way you spend and manage your money New technologies are constantly adding speed, convenience and flexibility to practically everything we do—including how we bank and pay for goods and services. If you think banking over the Internet is the latest trend, you may be in for some surprises—and
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Columbia’s newest banking center is a branch of one of the state’s oldest banks, but you wouldn’t know that by reading the sign that just went up near the corner of Nifong and Forum. Exchange Bank, which was founded in Jefferson City in 1865, is changing its name to Hawthorn Bank, and the new branch
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