Provident wants to be a prominent force in the New Jersey banking scene. Provident Financial Services owns The Provident Bank, which serves customers in about 10 northern and central New Jersey counties. Founded in 1839, the bank offers traditional deposit and lending products, as well as wealth management and trust services, through more than 80 branches. Residential mortgage loans make up about 35% of the bank's loan portfolio; commercial mortgages are around 25%. Business, consumer, and construction loans help to round out its lending activities. The company's Provident Investment Services subsidiary sells life and health insurance and investment products.

DZ BANK is the central institution for some 1,000 local cooperative banks, which serve 30 million customers from a combined 12,000 branch offices across Germany. It provides administrative services for its member banks, which are also the company's owners. Additionally, DZ BANK provides corporate banking services including commercial lending for small to midsized businesses, investment banking, structured financing, and private banking. GZ-Bank and DG Bank -- Germany's primary central institutions for cooperative lenders merged in 2001 to create today's DZ BANK.

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

Independence Federal Savings Bank operates as a federally chartered stock savings bank in Washington. It offers various deposit products, including money market deposit accounts, commercial deposit accounts, individual retirement accounts, checking accounts, savings accounts, automatic payroll, social security payment deposits, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides loan products, such as real estate loans consisting of mortgage loans secured by single-family dwellings, duplexes, and condominiums; commercial and other consumer loans, including small business, home equity, property improvement, credit card, and deposit account secured loans; and home equity lines of credit.

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.

The bank specializes in corporate lending and other finance products for companies in the aviation, shipping, land transport, and transport infrastructure sectors. It finances passenger and freight vessels, including rail rolling stock, crude tankers, and container carriers, and serves aviation clients such as Swiss International and Air Canada. Products and services include structured asset financing, equity sourcing, advisory services, and loan participations. DZ BANK owns 95% of DVB Bank.

Banco Macro S.A. provides banking products and services to individuals, entrepreneurs, companies, and corporate customers in Argentina. It offers various retail products and services, such as savings and checking accounts, time deposits, credit and debit cards, consumer finance loans, mortgage loans, car loans, overdrafts, credit-related services, home and car insurance coverage, tax collection, utility payments, automated teller machines (ATMs), and money transfer services. The company also provides personal loans, document discounts, mortgages, overdrafts, pledged loans, and credit card loans to retail customers. Its corporate banking products and services include deposits, lending, check cashing advances and factoring, guaranteed loans, and credit lines for financing foreign trade, and cash management services. Further, the company offers trust, payroll, and financial agency services, as well as corporate credit cards; and transaction services, such as cash management, customer collections, payments to suppliers, payroll administration, foreign exchange transactions, foreign trade services, corporate credit cards, and information services, such as Datanet and Interpymes services to corporate customers; and Internet banking services. It operates a network of 408 branches and 836 automated teller machines. The company is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) is the parent of Bank of China (Hong Kong), which has about 300 branches in Hong Kong as well as on mainland China. The bank serves local businesses and consumers, providing loans, deposit accounts, and other standard services, as well as securities brokerage, wealth management, and project financing and syndication. It also prints currency. In addition, Bank of China (Hong Kong) owns Nanyang Commercial Bank and some 70% of Chiyu Banking Corporation (both are also based in Hong Kong), as well as BOC Credit Card (International). Bank of China, which is controlled by the Chinese government, owns about two-thirds of BOC Hong Kong.

OTP Bank provides institutional, commercial, corporate, private, and retail banking in Hungary and beyond. The company and its subsidiaries offer such services as auto financing, real estate, and business loans, as well as investment, asset, and fund management and lending and deposit banking facilities. The company operates a network of about 1,400 banking offices in and around Hungary. Founded in 1949 as The National Savings Bank, OTP was originally a Hungarian state-owned bank; the company was privatized in 1990 and went public in 1995.

Banco Espírito Santo (BES) is one the largest banks in Portugal, with about 500 branches throughout the country. It is the flagship of Espírito Santo Financial Group, which holds a controlling stake in the bank. BES has subsidiaries that provide asset management, investment banking, private equity, factoring and leasing, and insurance services. The company has expanded into strategic international markets including Brazil, Spain, France, and the US. The bank's origins date back to 1869, when its namesake José Maria do Espírito Santo e Silva founded Caza de Cambio, a streetside exchange in São Paulo.

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