{
  "id": 2579259,
  "title": "I helped turn a California bank into one of America’s fastest-growing. Now I’m building a company to serve the people that banking has failed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/i-helped-turn-a-california-bank-into-one-of-americas-fastest-growing",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-22T12:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fortune",
    "slug": "fortune",
    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/james-francisco-turner-lazaro-banc-of-california-new-startup/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The author, who began their career in investment banking and private equity, later retired in southern Spain and became involved in digital finance. They later sold their company to The Bancorp and moved to the Northeast US. The author then returned to California to help a small bank grow rapidly, eventually building a company to serve the growing creator economy.",
  "summary": "The financial system was built for a world where everyone had one employer and a paycheck that landed every two weeks. That world is disappearing.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}