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The Alta Group of Glenbrook, NV has named Charles Taylor as an associate in Alta's London-based European unit, which specializes in asset finance, cash handling and electronic payments, sales and marketing and turnaround management for companies in distress. Taylor spent more than 20 years managing the leasing program at North West Securities Ltd. (Bank of Scotland) where he arranged more than '150 million in head lease transactions a year for the branch network and was a part of the big-ticket team that launched Gerrard & National Leasing, Union Discount Leasing and others. Later as a managing director at Sovereign Finance PLC he turned cumulative losses of '145 million into '20 million profit and sold the business to Alliance & Leicester. He was later appointed commercial bank director of Alliance & Leicester in charge of all its commercial lending.
American Bank of St. Paul, MN has appointed Paul Odlaug as vice president, commercial banking, leasing specialist. With more than 25 years of experience in the equipment finance and leasing industry, Odlaug has been involved in all aspects of equipment financing and leasing. His experience ranges from large multinational corporations like GE Capital and Citicorp to small, independent firms. American Bank was created in 2002 through the merger of Midway and Dakota Banks and is the largest independently-owned bank headquartered in the Twin Cities metro area.
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