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Standard Chartered PLC provides consumer and wholesale banking products and services to individuals, small and medium enterprises, corporate, and institutional customers. It offers savings accounts, demand drafts, foreign exchange services, safe deposit boxes, and telegraphic transfers; personal loans and mortgages; credit cards; life, savings and retirement planning, health and medical, home, motor, and travel insurance; and investment advisory and international banking services. The company also provides private and priority banking; cash management, treasury services; trade finance and working capital, including import, export, and cross-border financing services; business installment loans and mortgages; transaction banking, financial markets, and corporate finance services; custody services; and Saadiq Islamic banking services, as well as Internet banking services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated approximately 1,700 branches and outlets, and 5,679 ATMs primarily in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, as well as in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The company was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Steiermarkische Bank und Sparkassen AG, known among English speakers as Bank Styria, is one of the largest and oldest banks in southern Austria, with more than 140 offices. Bank Styria also has subsidiaries or joint ventures in Bosnia and Herzgovinia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, as it expands throughout southeast Europe. (It has its sights set on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.) Steiermarkische bank bought Investbanka in Croatia in 2008. The majority of its lending business is focused on real estate and leasing. Bank Styria has also been growing its pensions business. Erste Bank owns 25% of Bank Styria.

Suncorp-Metway (aka Suncorp Group)wants to be a rising star in Australia's insurance and banking sectors. The group owns Suncorp Insurance, which operates one of the country's largest general insurance companies, as well as a small but growing life insurance and wealth management business. The general insurance business sells personal and commercial property/casualty insurance under its Suncorp, AAMI, GIO, Vero, and Shannons brands. In addition to its insurance business, Suncorp also runs Suncorp Bank, an operator of some 170 branches in eastern Australia. Among other products, the bank offers personal and commercial banking accounts, financial planning, and loans to consumers and small to midsized businesses.

Svenska Handelsbanken is Swedish for universal banking. The group provides corporate and individual clients with deposit products, loans, credit cards, and other banking services. Subsidiaries operate in several related areas, including life insurance, mortgages, pensions, fund management, and Internet banking. The bank has more than 460 branches in Sweden and some 240 branches in the rest of Scandinavia, the UK, and other countries; it has a presence in countries including Austria, China, Hong Kong, Russia, and the US. Subsidiaries include Handelsbanken Finans corporate financing unit, Handelsbanken Asset Management, and Handelsbanken Liv (asset management and pension products).

Swedbank AB offers various financial products and services to private individuals, corporates, organizations, and municipalities. The company’s corporate banking services include cash management, financing, corporate finance, securities, capital market, asset management, and life and pension services; and banks and financial institutions services comprise transaction, custody, correspondent banking, trade finance, and relationship management services. It also offers loan and mortgage, savings and investing, payment, and insurance services for private customers; private banking services, including financial planning, investment advice, individual investment solutions, and ownership and generation shifting services; and single Euro payments area services for paying and receiving electronic payments in Euro. As of March 22, 2010, the company operated 381 branches in Sweden, 226 branches in the Baltic countries, and 156 branches in Ukraine. Swedbank AB offers its services in Sweden, Luxembourg, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the United States, China, and Japan. The company was founded in 1820 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

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