Aquesta Bank Aquesta Bank was started by Jim Engel and his Board of Directors in 2006 as a response to a need for a local financial institution that would cater to business people who wanted an alternative to the big banks that permeated the Charlotte region. Engel, who previously spent 21 years as a consultant to large, medium, and small banks across the country, recognized the things that big banks did well…..and not so well. Disturbed that most banks lost…