Emporiki Bank of Greece offers traditional financing and banking services, including investment banking, housing loans, asset management, securities portfolio management, leasing, venture capital, and insurance products. Founded in 1907, Emporiki has about 370 branches in Greece, plus nearly 90 in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, London, Frankfurt, and Romania. About a dozen subsidiary companies (Emporiki Bank Group) offer a wide array of financial services -- from real estate development and management to consumer credit, insurance, and vehicle leasing -- to customers both private and corporate. France's #1 bank, Credit Agricole, owns more than 80% of Emporiki.

Established in 1989, the firm conducts business across Canada, the US, and internationally. CEO Bernard Shimkovitz led a management buyout of Alliance Financing in 2010. Alliance Financing unites business owners with capital. The firm works with various funding partners to provide financing to small and midsized businesses. Transactions include funding for anything from small equipment and machinery purchases to large working capital needs. Alliance also offers financing packages to municipalities and schools. Through a partnership with The Mortgage Alliance Company of Canada, Alliance Financing also offers mortgage and home equity loans to individuals and business owners.

Hudson Valley Holding is the parent company of Hudson Valley Bank, which serves individuals, businesses, municipalities, and not-for-profit organizations from more than 35 locations throughout metropolitan New York and lower Connecticut. The bank's focus is on real estate lending, which accounts for more than 80% of the company's loan portfolio. Other products and services include savings, checking, and money market accounts; commercial and industrial loans; consumer loans; credit cards; CDs; and IRAs. Bank subsidiary A.R. Schmeidler & Co. offers money management services.

Republic First Bancorp is the holding company for Republic First Bank (dba Republic Bank), which serves southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey from a dozen branches. The bank targets individuals and small to midsized businesses, offering standard deposit products including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Commercial mortgages account for more than 70% of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes consumer loans, business loans, and residential mortgages. Republic First and Metro Bancorp scrapped plans to merge in 2010 due to regulatory difficulties. Undaunted, the company is still looking to expand in New Jersey and plans to open new branches.

Sturgis Bancorp is the holding company for Sturgis Bank & Trust, which has about 10 branches in south-central Michigan. Founded in 1905, the bank offers checking and savings accounts, CDs, trust services, and other standard banking fare. Real estate loans comprise the bulk of its lending activities: one- to four-family residential mortgages make up more than half of the company's loan portfolio. Subsidiary Oak Leaf Financial Services provides insurance and investment products and services from third-party provider Linsco/Private Ledger.

Fentura Financial has its hands full. Fentura Financial is the holding company for Michigan community banks The State Bank, Davison State Bank, and West Michigan Community Bank. From about 20 branch locations, the banks provide commercial and consumer banking services and products, including checking and savings accounts and loans. Commercial loans account for some two-thirds of the bank's combined loan portfolio. The State Bank, Fentura's first subsidiary, traces its origins to 1898.

Seacoast Banking Corporation is the holding company for Seacoast National Bank (formerly First National Bank and Trust Company of the Treasure Coast), which has more than 40 branches in Florida, with a concentration on the state's southeastern coast. Serving individuals and areas businesses, the bank offers a range of financial products and services, including deposit accounts, credit cards, trust services, and private banking. Commercial and residential real estate loans comprise most of the bank's lending activities; to a lesser extent, it also originates business and consumer loans. Subsidiary FNB Brokerage Services provides financial planning services in addition to mutual funds and other investments.

Farm Bureau Bank FSB is a wholly owned subsidiary of FB BanCorp and organized under federal law as a Federal Savings Bank. The Office of Thrift and Savings (OTS) is the primary federal regulator of Farm Bureau Bank, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has back-up regulatory authority. Farm Bureau Bank has the authority to exercise all powers available to Federal Savings Banks.

NB&T Financial Group, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for The National Bank and Trust Company that provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals and corporate customers in southwestern Ohio. The company offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, and term certificate accounts. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial loans, such as loans to automobile dealers and loans guaranteed by the small business administration; loans secured by commercial real estate; real estate construction loans for constructing commercial and residential buildings; agricultural loans, including loans to finance farm operations, equipment purchases, and land acquisition; loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate and multifamily real estate; and consumer installment loans, such as home equity loans, automobile loans, recreational vehicle loans, and overdraft protection. The company also offers credit card services; and trust services that consist of trust administration, investment purchase and management, estate planning and administration, tax and financial planning, and employee benefit plan administration. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a main office in Wilmington, as well as 25 full-service branch offices and 1 automated teller machine facility in Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Highland, Montgomery, and Warren Counties in Ohio. NB and T Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1859 and is based in Wilmington, Ohio.

First Mid-Illinois Bancshares is a major supplier of farm credit (including real estate, machinery, and production loans; inventory financing; and lines of credit) in its market area. In addition to agricultural loans, the bank also offers commercial, consumer, and real estate lending. It also provides deposit products such as savings and checking accounts, plus trust and investment services through a partnership with Raymond James . First Mid-Illinois has nearly 40 branches after acquiring about 10 in northern Illinois from First Banks in 2010.

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