The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company provides a full range of banking services to individual and commercial clients through around 800 offices in the Philippines, Asia, Europe, and the US. Its services include deposits, savings, loans, credit, investment assistance, life insurance, trade finance, money transfer and remittance, and Internet banking. Its subsidiaries and affiliate companies can be found throughout Asia as well as several major cities in the US. Chairman and majority shareholder George Ty established the Metrobank in 1962 in Manila.

Great Southern Bank was founded in 1923 with a $5,000 investment, four employees and 936 customers. Today, it has grown to $3.4 billion in total assets, more than 1,000 dedicated associates serving nearly 150,000 households. Headquartered in Springfield, Mo., the Company operates 75 retail banking centers in Missouri, Arkansas. Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Great Southern offers one-stop shopping with a comprehensive line-up of financial services that give customers more choices for their money. Customers can choose from a wide variety of checking accounts, savings accounts and lending options. With the understanding that convenient access to banking services is a top priority, customers can access the bank when, where and how they prefer, whether it’s through a banking center that will have the longest banking hours in town, through an ATM, by telephone or through the Internet.Beyond traditional banking services, customers can also look to Great Southern for help with investment, insurance and travel services through Great Southern Financial Services, Great Southern Insurance and Great Southern Travel. Great Southern’s mission is to build winning relationships with its customers, associates, shareholders and communities. On any given day, we are hard at work helping young families realize the dream of homeownership, helping a business owner expand his or her business, or providing the right product or service to help an individual save for a future goal. We’re also partnering with the community to help make it a better and more prosperous place to live. And, last but not least, we are keeping the interests of our shareholders in mind in every decision we make while also maintaining our commitment to provide a superior long-term return on their investment.

Red Capital Group supplies the green for commercial real estate development. The company specializes in financing for affordable housing, multifamily residential real estate, assisted living facilities, medical office buildings, and community hospitals. It also finances industrial, and retail properties, hotels, and self-storage facilities. Red Capital Group consists of three firms: lender Red Mortgage Capital; Red Capital Markets, which underwrites housing bonds; and asset manager Red Capital Advisors. Red Capital Group has more than 10 offices in the US. ORIX USA bought the firm in 2010 from PNC Financial Services, which had acquired it in a takeover of Red Capital's previous parent, National City, in 2008.

Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

Morton Community Bank has nearly 30 branches and divisions known collectively as "Your Hometown Community Banks of Central Illinois." Most bear the names of the communities in which they operate. Serving local consumers and businesses, the bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts and ATM, credit, and debit cards. Commercial and residential mortgages account for around two-thirds of its loan portfolio. Morton Community Bank provides financial planning services through its Investment Services division; personal and business insurance are offered through affiliate Winter Insurance. Morton acquired Citizens National Bank in 2009 after it was shut down by regulators.

Tidelands Bancshares does its work at the intersection of Southern charm and Coastal cool. The holding company operates Tidelands Bank, which has seven branches along the coast of South Carolina. The bank offers traditional retail services and products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and commercial and consumer loans. Tidelands Bank grows by opening loan production offices and then, when they prove successful, converting them into full service locations. The company specializes in services for small businesses and entrepreneurs, of which there are plenty in the tourist-laden beachfront locales it calls home. About 75% of its loan activity is in Charleston.

Caixa D'Estalvis | Pensions De Barcelona (in Spanish, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, but better known as La Caixa) strives for ubiquity, providing banking services to consumers and small to midsize businesses through some 5,500 branches and more than 8,100 ATMs; it offers Internet banking service through its Linea Abierta to some 5 million customers. La Caixa also serves business customers through a network of nearly 70 dedicated business centers under the CaixaEmpresa brand. The savings bank reinvests a sizable portion of its profits (some 25%) in programs and projects that provide societal benefit or improve welfare.

FirstFed Bancorp is the holding company for First Financial Bank, which has about 10 branches in central Alabama. The bank offers standard deposit products such as checking, savings, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. With funds from deposits it originates loans in its market area, which includes Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa counties. First Financial's lending activities primarily consist of commercial real estate loans, single-family residential mortgages, and construction and land development loans. The bank also writes business and consumer loans.

Great Florida Bank provides a range of consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, and industries in Florida. Its products and services include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing demand deposit accounts, money market deposit accounts, NOW accounts, time deposits, credit cards, cash management, direct deposits, notary services, night depository, cashiers checks, domestic collections, bank drafts, and automated teller services, as well as automated teller machine cards and online banking services.

Ocean Shore Holding owns Ocean City Home Bank, a community thrift serving New Jersey's Atlantic and Cape May counties where gaming and tourism thrive. Through about 10 locations, the bank offers individuals, businesses, and government entities such standard fare as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts. Residential mortgages, including loans secured by second homes and rental properties, account for more than 80% of the company's loan portfolio. Subsidiary Seashore Financial sells investment and insurance products.

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