Business View Magazine | November 2020

124 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 River Bank A merican River Bank is a full-service community bank founded in Sacramento, California in 1983, by a group of 12 local business leaders who wanted to establish a locally owned, service oriented, independent bank. Today, the bank remains headquartered in Sacramento, with ten branches in four northern California counties, Sacramento, Placer, Amador, and Sonoma. The bank provides commercial real estate, business equipment, agricultural, municipal, and small business and government guaranteed loans, and lines of credit, in addition to full service banking products for business owners and consumers, alike. American River Bank is a subsidiary of American River Bankshares, a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market Exchange. “Our focus is small and medium sized businesses,” says American River Bank President & CEO, David E. Ritchie, Jr. “And, like many other community banks, our territory tends to dictate what we do. So, because it’s flush with a lot of real estate opportunities, we do a lot with real estate lending. We have 107 employees and our success is a result of the extraordinary service THE DIFFERENCE IS GREAT SERVICE