Mediolanum (the Latin name for Milan) is a financial services holding company with more than a million customers. Its primary subsidiary, Banca Mediolanum, employs some 5,800 financial advisors (called Family Bankers) who offer customers traditional banking products, as well as insurance, retirement products, and asset management services provided by other Mediolanum companies. Most of Mediolanum's operating units are based in northern Italy, although the company has expanded into Spain (it owns Spanish bank Fibanc) and other parts of Europe.

Citizens Holding Company has taken the proletariat approach to banking. The firm is the holding company for The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia, Mississippi, which operates some 20 locations in the eastern part of the state. Founded in 1908, the bank targets individuals and local businesses, offering products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, IRAs, and trust services. Lending activities consist mostly of real estate loans (about 70% of the loan portfolio) and commercial, industrial, and agricultural loans (more than 10%). Citizens Holding offers discount brokerage services through an agreement with First Tennessee Bank. Subsidiary Title Services offers title insurance.

ABC International Bank (ABCIB) focuses on trade finance and investment between Europe and the Arab world. The bank's offerings include trade and commodity finance, lending to small and midsized businesses, treasury management, and Islamic financial services (including banking and asset management that are compliant with Islamic religious principles). It also finances energy and infrastructure projects in the Middle East and North Africa. A subsidiary of Arab Banking Corporation, ABCIB has branches in Frankfurt, London, Milan, and Paris, with additional support offices in Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK.

Fidelity Bank is committed to providing exceptional service to all of our customers. As the second largest locally owned financial institution in Wichita, Kansas and a growing presence in the Oklahoma City area, we provide customers with a wide array of quality financial services. The forerunner of Fidelity Bank--The Fidelity Investment Company--opened its doors for business in Wichita in 1905 as a mortgage lender. In 1942 Homer C. Bastian, Kansas' first director of the Federal Housing Administration, recognized Wichita's growth potential as a trade area. He left the FHA and purchased one-half interest in Fidelity Investment.

Venture Finance, a unit of ABN AMRO, provides business financing through asset-based lending, invoice discounting, and factoring. Venture Finance focuses on small to midsized companies throughout the UK. The firm also has a structured finance unit, which focuses on refinancing, turnaround, management buyouts, and other transactions for midsized firms. Venture Finance, which was founded in 1989, has about a dozen offices throughout the UK.

Luzerner Kantonalbank (LUKB) provides standard retail and corporate banking, loans, small-business financing, and private banking services from about two-dozen branches and offices in the central Swiss canton of Lucerne. Its Adler & Co. subsidiary operates two private banking branches serving high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors in Zurich and Basel. More than 20 cantonal banks today vie for the market share not dominated by UBS or Credit Suisse. Like all contanal banks, the cantonal government provides backing for LUKB's lending products. LUKB was founded in 1850 and began trading publicly in 2001; the canton owns about two-thirds of the bank.

Davenham has discontinued its property finance division, which has historically accounted for more than half of the company's sales. Davenham often says "yes" when the banks say "no." The company provides asset-based loans, primarily to small and midsized businesses in the UK. Davenham's trade finance division provides working capital loans, including short-term letters of credit, while its asset finance unit provides loans to buy or lease machinery and equipment. Subsidiary Manor Credit finances commercial vehicles, vans, and fleet cars. Davenham Group plc makes loans primarily to contractors, distributors, importers, manufacturers, and wholesalers who are not able to get financing from traditional lenders.

Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB) has international character. It was the first Chinese bank to receive significant foreign investment and its chairman and CEO, Frank Newman, is a former deputy secretary of the US Treasury. SDB has more than 250 bank branches in economic centers including Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin; it has correspondent branches in more than 70 international regions. The bank offers standard deposit and lending services to commercial and individual customers. It also trades in foreign and domestic securities and offers a mix of financial services including trust services and investment banking. Ping An Insurance owns about a third of SDB and plans to double that stake to control the bank.

The banking services group includes Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking (retail trust, banking, real estate, and stock transfer services) and Chuo Mitsui Asset (pension and securities trusts). Chuo Mitsui Asset owns investment trust and private equity managers Chuo Mitsui Asset Management and Chuo Mitsui Capital. The group has units in the US, the UK, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, and China. Chuo Mitsui Trust and Sumitomo Trust & Banking plan to merge, with Chuo Mitsui as the surviving entity. Renamed Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, the combined company will be Japan's largest asset management group.

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services, including banking, securities, and trust and asset management services in Japan and internationally. The company offers commercial banking services, foreign exchange transaction services, advisory services, capital markets financing services, syndicated loan services, and structured finance services.

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