C.R. Bankers Trust president leaves amid newbo evolve fallout
Market president Pat Deignan has left Bankers Trust of Cedar Rapids in the ongoing fallout from failed festival newbo evolve, after the bank is still owed most of a $2.25 million line of credit with no mechanism for recovery, reports the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Deignan had been with Bankers Trust for 16 years. The Cedar Rapids branch had initially offered a $1.5 million line of credit to festival organizers GO Cedar Rapids and later extended it to $2.25 million before the newbo evolve event, but GO Cedar Rapids declared a $2.3 million loss after the three-day festival, and closed without a bankruptcy filing because the organization had no assets. The organization still owed Bankers Trust $1.5 million, and local, regional and national vendors an additional $800,000 at time of closure. Bankers Trust, based in Des Moines, has named Todd Wishman the new market president in Cedar Rapids.