Gov. Luis Fortuño appointed former BBVA executive and banking industry veteran Rafael Blanco to head the Office of the Financial Institutions Commissioner, effective Jan. 1. Blanco will succeed current OCIF chief Alfredo Padilla, who will retire after nine years at the agency.
Three high-ranking executives — President Julio Juliá, Mark Rishell and Javier Magriná — have left Medical Card Systems Inc., the company’s board of directors announced Tuesday.
Nearly 50 years of Puerto Rico’s history captured in print and photographs that had been stored in the library of the former The San Juan Star newspaper in Guaynabo are being pulled out of the building this week by a brigade from the University of Puerto Rico.