Extradordinary & Obscure

By Business Observer Staff
| 6:00 p.m. September 5, 2003
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Despite a regulatory jungle, Theresa Schefstad took a strange animal - a thrift owned by a securities brokerage - and tamed it. Raymond James Bank now wants more commercial loans.

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