The 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act brought on one of the more impactful programs for community banks in recent memory: the Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP). Formed as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, ECIP was built to help the most-impacted communities and businesses through…

Community banking is experiencing something of a renaissance as the industry settles into the digital age and technology is doing much of the heavy lifting. With competition from bigger banks continuing to ramp up, community institutions are working harder than ever to build strong…

Last week, we brought all our employees from across the country to our headquarters in Little Rock to celebrate our 20th Anniversary. As we have grown over the past few years, we have more remote workers than ever, so it was important to bring everyone…

Milestones are important because they remind us of where we’ve been.  September 19th is a particular milestone for all of us here at Smiley Technologies because it’s our birthday! Twenty years ago today we began our journey to fulfill a need we saw in the…

He’ll never know but, E. Bryant Crutchfield is an inspiration to all of us here at Smiley Technologies. The story goes that the creator of the Trapper Keeper set out to create a folder for folders. He wanted to “trap” his paper in folders and “keep”…