Mission Community Bancorp has about five offices in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. Its Mission Community Development arm provides financing for small businesses and affordable housing projects. An affiliated not-for-profit group offers training to the community and small businesses. The Carpenter Community BancFund owns about 25% of Mission.Mission Community Bancorp is on a mission to provide traditional community banking services and foster economic revitalization and community development. Subsidiary Mission Community Bank offers standard checking, savings products, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. It also focuses on agribusiness, commercial, construction, and consumer loans.

The Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited is the country's oldest bank, established by King Rama V in 1906 in response to the proliferation of foreign financial institutions in Thailand. Today the bank offers an array of financial services that include corporate and personal lending, retail and wholesale banking, foreign currency operations, international trade financing, cash management, custodial operations, credit and charge-card operations, and investment banking. Siam Commercial operates through a network of about 950 branches including offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Laos.

Public Bank Berhad has about 250 branches throughout Malaysia, where it is one of the top lenders and fund operators. Offerings include deposit accounts, credit cards, home loans, and insurance plans. In addition to retail and commercial services, it provides corporate banking, brokerage, investment banking, wealth management, and Islamic banking. Public Bank has more than 100 overseas branches in countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The company was founded in 1966 by chairman Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr. Teh Hong Piow.

Security Federal is the holding company for Security Federal Bank, which has about a dozen offices in southwestern South Carolina's Aiken and Lexington counties. It expanded into Columbia, South Carolina and eastern Georgia in 2007. The bank offers checking and savings accounts, credit cards, CDs, IRAs, and other retail products and services. Commercial business and mortgage loans make up more than 60% of the company's lending portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages (about 25%), and consumer loans. Security Federal also offers trust services, investments, and life, home, and auto insurance.

Joyo Bank offers regional banking services for Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture and its surrounding regions. Backed by more than 170 branches, Joyo offers deposits, loans, investment portfolios, international business, and other traditional retail banking products. Subsidiaries and affiliated companies include Joyo Computer Service Co. (calculation software), Joyo Lease Co. (machinery and equipment leasing), Joyo Credit Guarantee Co. (housing loans credit), and Joyo Cash Service Co. (ATM and CD management and maintenance).

Banco de Sabadell (also known as BancoSabadell) is one of the top banking groups in Spain offering corporate, commercial, and private banking through more than 1,200 branches. The company operates under five banking brands: SabadellAtlantico and Banco Herrero, for business banking; Solbank, which specializes in providing banking services for tourists and the tourism industry; ActivoBank, for online banking; and BancoUrquijo, for private banking. BancoSabadell also offers bancassurance products, asset management, and securities brokerage. The company has a presence in about 20 countries. It is looking across the Atlantic for growth, especially in Florida, as well as in Mexico.

Founded in 1889 as a building and loan association, the bank offers traditional retail products such as savings, NOW, checking, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. Real estate loans make up about 85% of the bank's lending activities; it also writes business and consumer loans. Through affiliations with Fenimore Asset Management and Essex Corp., Greene County Bancorp offers investment products. Subsidiary Greene County Commercial Bank is a state-chartered limited purpose commercial bank. This company helps put the "green" in upstate New York. Greene County Bancorp is the holding company for The Bank of Greene County, serving New York's Catskill Mountains region from about a dozen branches.

Phoenix Capital Group helps trucking companies rise above their financial concerns about providing transportation. The firm offers equipment financing as well as fuel cards, which are similar to credit cards used to purchase fuel. It also provides freight factoring (company assumes risk for collecting on clients' account receivables). Clients benefit from freight factoring, because they do not need to wait for their customers' payment, which might not take place for a few months. Its fuel cards, accepted at major truck stops, also offer discounts for hotels.

National Bancshares Corporation operates as the holding company for First National Bank that provides a range of financial services to individuals and companies in Ohio. The company accepts various deposits, which include checking and savings accounts, regular and money market savings accounts, NOW accounts, and fixed-maturity and fixed-rate certificates. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, residential mortgage and home equity loans, and secured and unsecured consumer installment loans. In addition, the company offers debit cards, gift cards, travel cards, travelers` checks, official checks, money orders, ATM services, and individual retirement accounts.

Centrix Bank likes to be central in the lives of its customers. Founded in 1998 to serve small to midsized businesses, as well as not-for-profits, municipalities, and professionals, the bank bank operates about a half-dozen branches in southern New Hampshire. It offers such traditional deposit products as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Lending is focused on area businesses, with commercial mortgages accounting for more than half of the bank's loan portfolio and other business loans contributing more than a third. Personal loans, residential construction loans, and home equity lines of credit help to round out Centrix Bank's lending activities.

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