Techcombank serves primarily individuals and small to medium businesses. It offers deposit products, loans, leasing, cash management, and other financial services. The company offers insurance through Bao Viet Life. Founded in 1993, Techcombank has more than 130 branches throughout Vietnam -- the second-largest network in the country. It plans to operate 200 locations by 2010. International banking giant HSBC owns 20% of Techcombank; the two banks also have numerous cooperative alliances.

Bank of East Asia provides retail and commercial banking services in Hong Kong and mainland China. Its offerings include deposit accounts, consumer loans, mortgages, business loans, credit cards, private banking, and investment management. Bank of East Asia has some 130 locations in Hong Kong and more than 60 in mainland China; internationally, it has about 30 offices in the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, the US, and Vietnam. The bank's subsidiaries include online securities and futures brokerage provider East Asia Securities, Blue Cross (Asia-Pacific) Insurance, and Tricor, which performs outsourced business services.

The Bank of Okinawa, Ltd.,the regional financial institution serves businesses, consumers, and visitors through its 62 offices located throughout the Okinawa island prefecture, which lies at the southwesternmost end of the Japanese archipelago. The Bank of Okinawa and its subsidiaries provide a wide range of traditional commercial banking services, along with other financial products and services, including credit cards, factoring, financing, international business services, leasing, and trust services.

The Bank of Yokohama concentrates its operations in its native Kanagawa prefecture and southern portions of neighboring Tokyo. The bank offers standard retail services such as deposits, housing loans, credit cards, securities brokerage, and investment products and advice. On the commercial side, it provides small and medium-sized commercial financing, including venture capital investment. The bank also has units that offer leasing and factoring. The Bank of Yokohama, which was formed in 1920, operates more than 600 Japanese branches, plus representative offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, and Shanghai. It is opening shared branches in a joint venture with Hamagin Tokai Tokyo Securities.

The Chiba Bank serves Japan's Chiba prefecture -- located east of Tokyo -- through about 170 branches and sub-branches. The bank, in addition to providing traditional banking services to individuals and businesses, offers investment trusts, credit cards, leasing, financial consulting, annuities, and securities. Its lending focuses on home mortgages, regional businesses, and residential construction companies. The bank has more than 28,000 ATMs nationwide and operates international offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, and Shanghai. In 2008 Chiba Bank joined with banks in Thailand and China to provide financial services in those countries.

The Co-operative Bank provides individuals and business with traditional services (checking and savings accounts, mortgages, loans, and credit cards), along with such ethical financial services products as credit cards that benefit charities. The bank also offers insurance (offered through sister firm Co-operative Insurance Society) and investments such as ISAs, unit trusts, pensions, and trust funds. The institution, which has more than 100 branches throughout the UK, also operates Internet banking business smile. Founded in 1872 by what is now Co-operative Group, the bank was incorporated in 1970.

The Daegu Bank, Ltd,founded in 1967, the regional bank has more than 200 branches and serves 3.5 million customers in and around Daegu (also known as Taegu), one of the largest cities in South Korea. Daegu Bank offers retail banking (deposits), bancassurance, credit cards, consumer finance, electronic banking, capital markets, international banking and foreign exchange, risk management, trust deposits, and corporate banking (commercial loans). Samsung Life Insurance owns approximately 7% of the company.

The Ehime Bank provides a range of banking and other financial services to residents of the Ehime Prefecture and to the larger Shikoku area. Services offered include savings, loans, credit card issuing, foreign currency exchange, leasing, and more. The Ehime Bank has more than 90 offices, including two in Osaka and one in Tokyo, and the bank focuses on serving individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses. Minority shareholders in the bank include Japan Trustee Services Bank, Mizuho Corporate, and Aozora.

The Eighteenth Bank, Limited,the bank has more than 90 offices in its home prefecture, as well as about a dozen more in the nearby prefectures of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Yamaguchi; it also has a presence in both Osaka and Tokyo. In addition to offering traditional deposit banking services, the Eighteenth Bank and its subsidiaries are active in such business areas as leasing, credit cards, and economic research.

The Export-Import Bank of China, also known as China Eximbank, was established in 1994 by the Chinese government to handle banking and lending activities related to national policy. China Eximbank provides financing mainly for development projects intended to boost the export of China's industrial and electronic goods. The bank also manages the construction fund of the national budget and trades currency on foreign exchanges. China Eximbank operates more than 10 branches and business offices throughout China as well as representative locations in Paris, Johannesburg, and St. Petersburg.

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