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SAVE10 financial initiative kicks off in Little Rock Talk Business & Politics 10/10/19 A new statewide initiative with the goal of urging women to bolster their savings to stave off debt and invest for retirement was launched Thursday (Oct. 10) at the Little Rock corporate offices of Simmons Bank. The women’s only movement, called SAVE10, is the brainchild of co-founders… Read more »

South Arkansas students part of Sen. Boozman's Congressional Youth Cabinet Magnolia Reporter 10/10/19 WASHINGTON – Arkansas high school students are exploring and offering solutions to national issues as members of U.S. Sen. John Boozman’s Congressional Youth Cabinet. The program is in its third year and seeks to expose students to the legislative process and opportunities for… Read more »

DRA Announces $2.2 Million Investment into Arkansas Communities The Pine Bluff Commercial 10/09/19 CLARKSDALE, MS – On Monday, the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) made a $2,228,104 investment that will strengthen public infrastructure and train the next generation of workforce to grow the region’s economy and create jobs, DRA Federal Co-Chairman Chris Caldwell and Arkansas Governor… Read more »

Ripple CEO Warns U.S. Dollar at Risk of Being Displaced by China Community College Network 10/09/19 As tensions continue to flare between the U.S. and China amid further trade war competitiveness, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has pitted the two superpowers against each other yet again, suggesting that America is falling behind China on crypto innovation. China’s work on its… Read more »

Congressional redistricting: 10 years of political change Talk Business & Politics  10/08/2019 For the last 10 years, Arkansas’ population has been slowly growing, becoming more suburban, and shifting from the southeast to the northwest. The effects have been broad and obvious. But they have taken place over time. After a new census in 2020, Arkansas will experience a more… Read more »

EU finance commissioner vows Libra regulation Decrypt 10/08/19 The bureaucrats’ resistance to Libra continues apace, with the EU's Finance Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis today vowing to regulate digital currencies like Facebook’s Libra, should he be re-elected. “Europe needs a common approach on crypto-assets such as Libra,” Dombrovskis told Union members at a confirmation… Read more »

Trump defends Syria decision; allies voice concerns on troops’ move Arkansas Democrat Gazette 10/08/2019 WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Monday cast his decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria's border with Turkey as fulfilling a campaign promise to withdraw from "endless war" in the Middle East, even as Republican critics and others said he was sacrificing Kurdish fighters… Read more »

Rep. Hill Statement on Syria KARK 10/07/2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) issued the following statement after the announcement that the United States would be withdrawing troops from northern Syria: “Withdrawing our strategically placed forces along the former ISIS controlled Syrian border with Turkey will open northern Syria to more bloodshed and… Read more »

M&T Bank, Bank of America, and Keycorp Bank Double Down on Criticism of LIBRA Banking Exchange 10/07/2019 The banking industry has been immensely critical of Facebook’s Libra, and this past week was no exception. A number of representatives from United States banks added more warnings. Major banks filed an official complaint to the central bank stating that Libra would pose… Read more »

GERMAN FINANCE MINISTER OLAF SCHOLZ CHAMPIONS THE DIGITAL EURO CryptoBit 10/07/2019 THE DIGITAL EURO IN GERMANY "Such a payment system would be beneficial for the financial center of Europe and its integration into the global financial system," Scholz said last week in a report published by the local business news magazine WiWo (WirtschaftsWoche). "We should not leave a"field… Read more »