Pacific Capital Shuts Out Retirees

In the latest news regarding financially embattled Pacific Capital Bancorp - the parent company of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust and four other Central Coast banks - the holding company has allegedly cancelled the health benefits of its retirees. A former bank administrator who claimed to have had...

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Published inThe Santa Barbara independent Vol. 24; no. 209
Main Author Preston, Ben
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Santa Barbara, Calif Santa Barbara Independent 14.01.2010
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Summary:In the latest news regarding financially embattled Pacific Capital Bancorp - the parent company of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust and four other Central Coast banks - the holding company has allegedly cancelled the health benefits of its retirees. A former bank administrator who claimed to have had access to the company's innermost financial workings said on the condition of anonymity that the writing was on the wall spelling out the bank's eventual demise as early as 2003. "I'd say it had been coming since they hired a consultant to install a whole new core system (a computer system regulating account transactions and socalled customer relationship management, or CRM)...