Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires (Banco Galicia) is one of Argentina's top three private banks by assets. Through some 350 offices, the bank offers loans to a client base primarily of businesses and individuals. It also provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking; insurance (through its Sudamericana subsidiary); risk management; and credit and debit cards. The bank, founded in 1905, has branches in neighboring Uruguay. Grupo Financiero Galicia, which is controlled by the Escasany, Ayerza, and Braun families, owns a 95% stake in Banco Galicia. The bank is looking to boost lending in the private sector.

Headquartered in Korea's second-largest city, Busan, a port and logistics center, Busan Bank operates more than 200 branches in its domestic network. Most of its borrowers are corporate clients, primarily in businesses in the manufacturing, retail, and wholesaling sectors. The bank has lent some 300 billion won to help companies specifically challenged by high prices for raw materials and the Asian bird flu epidemic. Besides deposits and loans, the bank offers services in wealth management, insurance, and mobile banking. Busan Bank was founded in 1967.

Close Brothers Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides specialized financial services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers investment funds, such as multi-manager, property, and other specialist funds and services to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, private client stockbrokers, wealth managers, independent financial advisors, and private investors, as well as private equity investment services. The company also provides wealth management services, including investment management, strategic advice, financial education, banking, trust, pensions, global custody, and corporate and fund administration. In addition, it offers securities trading services, such as execution services covering UK equities, FTSE 100, AIM, European and US listed equities, and fixed interest securities for a range of clients, including stockbrokers, private asset managers, and institutional investment managers. The company’s securities trading services also comprise floor trading of foreign equities and bonds, OTC trading, and structuring of bond instruments and convertible bonds, as well as investment trust advisory services. Further, it provides lending services, such as asset based lending for corporate and personal customers focusing on various asset classes, including insurance premiums, property, domestic and commercial vehicles, specialist plant and machinery, light aircraft, and invoice receivables. Additionally, the company offers deposits and treasury services. Close Brothers Group plc was founded in 1878 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

ChoiceOne Bank, which has more than a dozen offices in the western part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. The bank serves consumers and area businesses, offering checking and savings accounts, CDs, investment planning, and other services. Real estate loans, including residential and commercial mortgages, constitute more than two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio. Agricultural, consumer, and business loans help to round out the bank's lending activities. ChoiceOne Financial Services sells life, health, and disability coverage through its ChoiceOne Insurance Agencies subsidiaries.

A state-owned organization, IDBI provides corporate clients funding for expansion, modernization, and diversification of their businesses--including equipment financing, asset credit, corporate loan, and working capital loans. IDBI operates through several subsidiaries: IDBI Bank, IDBI Capital Market Services (financial services), IDBI Intech (information technology), IDBI Gilts Ltd. (bond trading), and IDBI Homefinance (housing financing). Its banking unit also offers traditional deposit and loan services to consumers through a network of more than 680 branches, 450 banking centers, and 1,140 ATMs.

Whitney Holding Corporation was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whitney Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Whitney National Bank that provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. Whitney Holding Corporation offers various deposit products, such as non interest bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing deposits, NOW account, money market, savings, and other time deposits. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial; commercial real estate; construction, land, and land development; residential mortgage; and consumer loans, as well as secured and unsecured loan products, such as revolving credit facilities. The company also offers letters of credit, financial guarantees, and financing for the development of housing. In addition, it provides treasury management services; trust and investment management services to retirement plans; investment brokerage services; and annuity products, as well as personal and business lines of insurance to customers in northwest Florida and the New Orleans metropolitan area. Whitney Holding Corporation offers its services in Texas, southern Louisiana, coastal region of Mississippi, central and south Alabama, and the western panhandle and the Tampa Bay metropolitan area of Florida, as well as in Grand Cayman in the British West Indies.

The company was founded in 1964 in Jackson, Georgia, by a group of local businessmen who wanted to establish a true community bank. They envisioned a bank that would serve the specific needs of the community and all of its citizens. We have experienced strong growth over these many years which is an indication that our founding directors were correct in their assessment that if we served our community and customers well we would succeed.

APLUS was established in 1956 as Osaka Credit Sales, and later changed it name to Daishinpan, and then to APLUS in 1992. With the prices of some goods the way they are in Japan, a line of credit can come in handy. APLUS offers a range of consumer and commercial financing products and services, including credit cards, consumer loans, installment credit, and leasing services, to individuals as well as small and medium-sized buinesses. APLUS company has more than 4 million credit card customers. Shinsei Bank acquired a majority stake in APLUS in 2004; the move diversified the parent company's activities, which had been focused on providing institutional and retail banking services.

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) is all about hometown development of the financial variety. The bank offers individuals and businesses such products and services as credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, personal loans, savings accounts, corporate banking services, business loans, and Internet and telephone banking services. The manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and entertainment sectors represent the bank's largest business lending markets. SPDB has about 30 branches and more than 400 business network sites. The bank was founded by the government in 1992. In an effort to strengthen its capital requirements, SPDB sold 20% of itself to China Mobile in late 2010.

1st Source Corporation, parent of 1st Source Bank, which provides commercial and consumer banking services through more than 75 branches in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. The bank offers deposit accounts; business, agricultural, and consumer loans; residential and commercial mortgages; credit cards; and trust services. Its specialty finance group provides financing for aircraft, automobile fleets, trucks, and construction and environmental equipment through about two-dozen offices nationwide; such loans account for approximately half of 1st Source's portfolio. Subsidiaries offer insurance and investment advisory services.

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