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Send Encore Bank’s Texas aspirations stand at three offices and counting. So far, the Little Rock bank has full-service branches in the works for Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas. The $834 million-asset lender will double the count of Arkansas banks with an office in Austin. Little Rock’s Bank OZK holds 0.43% share ($158.4 million) of the $36 billion-deposit market in the Texas capital. That ranks 25th among the 50 banks on the ground in Austin, where Wells Fargo Bank of Sioux City, South Dakota, sits atop the list with a 20.84% share of deposits totaling $7.6 billion. Encore will join Bank OZK and Pine Bluff’s Simmons Bank to expand the count of Arkansas banks in Fort Worth and Dallas to three. ....
April 16, 2021 Stopping his car to pick up the newspaper at the bottom of his driveway, as he did every morning, Sidney J. Reso could not have known that within seconds he would be kidnapped and shot. On that April morning in 1992, Reso was the chief executive officer of Exxon International, then based in Florham Park, New Jersey. His kidnapping is the subject of Philip Jett’s emotionally gripping Taking Mr. Exxon. The author’s extensive research has yielded a true crime tale with an abundance of attention- holding details. Even if you know the outcome, this book is still a page-turner. ....