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Riverview Community Bank, has appointed Diana Fitzpatrick to vice president and cash management officer. Fitzpatrick comes to Riverview with 25 years of local banking experience. She is a member of the Association for Financial Professionals Northwest Chapter and was a past board member for Southwest Washington Independent Forward Thrust. MARKETING AND ADVERTISING Overland Agency has hired Angela Karst as an account supervisor. Karst spent the past five years with Monster.com as a client services manager and project manager in the Portland and Chicago offices. NONPROFIT All Classical 89.9 KBPS, a nonprofit 24-hour classical music station serving Oregon and southwest Washington, has named Maynard Orme interim executive director, replacing Sarah Shelley. He is the former president and chief executive officer of Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Ailing E-Loan eyes checking, credit cards
Internet bank E-Loan Inc. plans to expand its non-mortgage product lines in 2008 after the housing downturn forced it to lay off 44 percent of the work force at its Pleasanton headquarters. Preparing to weather a down housing market, E-Loan plans to offer a "transactional account," or a checking-account equivalent, that will pair with its savings and CD products, E-Loan President Mark Lefanowicz said. The bank will also begin offering credit cards and expand its student-loan program in 2008. The 410-job reduction announced Nov. 8 was the second this year for E-Loan, a subsidiary of Banco Popular North America, owned by Popular Inc. of San Juan, Puerto Rico. A February restructuring by the parent company cost nearly three dozen E-Loan employees their jobs as Popular's U.S.
Lawmakers weigh changes
Gov. Mark Sanford's past business ties to a nonprofit organization that received $100,000 from a governor's conference bank account has lawmakers considering changes to disclosure laws and the state's competitive grants program. While no one has accused Sanford of anything illegal, some state lawmakers question his decision to donate the conference money to Carolinians for Reform Inc. given his ties to the organization. Among the group's directors is a former officer in a business owned by the governor's brother, and two men who ran a political action committee that supported Sanford. "We gave $150,000 for a governor's conference, not a political organization," said state Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell. "There's nothing illegal I know of about it, but it sure is going to raise questions." In August, the governor's office directed a nonprofit organization run out of the Charleston Area Convention Visitors Bureau to cut a check for $101,534.14 to Carolinians for Reform Inc.
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