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Bank OZK finances risky bet on Miami glamour
Shares in Bank OZK, a mid-sized US lender with century-old roots in rural Arkansas, plummeted 20 per cent in May after a Citigroup analyst questioned its increasing exposure to the troubled commercial real estate sector. Two weeks later, the bank inked a …