Baton Rouge, LA – Business First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFST), the holding company of b1BANK, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, announced today that it has received all necessary approvals from NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC, and that shares of the company’s common stock will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “BFST” at market opening today, Monday, April 9, 2018.