Bankers lend hand to Rwanda: trio from Little Rock organize African country's first bank merger.(Banking & Finance)

Arkansas Business,  April, 2007  by Gordon, James

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THREE LITTLE ROCK BANKERS have put their high-profile jobs in Arkansas' financial arena on hold to launch a micro-financing company in Rwanda as part of a larger ministry to which they feel called. Dale Dawson of Stephens Inc., Dabbs Cavin of Summit Bank and Todd Brogdon of Arkansas Capital Corp.

Group's Diamond State Ventures are united not by a shared church affiliation but a common interest in the small, central African country still struggling to heal 13 years after being ripped apart by genocide. Two weeks ago, the three received good news: The National Bank of Rwanda ...

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