Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

MainStreet BankShares, Inc. serves southern Virginia from about five offices. Chartered in 2002, Franklin offers such deposit products as checking and savings accounts, money markets, and CDs. The bank primarily uses funds from deposits to write real estate loans, including commercial and residential mortgages, construction loans, and home equity loans. Franklin Community's market is centered in the rural communities of Virginia's Franklin County.

The First Bancorp (formerly First National Lincoln) is the holding company for The First, a regional bank serving coastal Maine from about 15 branches. The bank offers traditional retail products and services, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and loans. Residential mortgages make up about half of the company's loan portfolio; business loans account for another third. Bank subsidiary First Advisors offers private banking and investment management services. The bank traces its roots to 1864 and has grown through acquisitions and the opening of new branches.

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.

Pentagon Federal Credit Union serves over 999,658 members in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, defense-related companies, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We were federally chartered in 1935 and serve our members worldwide.

Guaranty Bancshares is the holding company for Guaranty Bond Bank, which operates about a dozen branches in northeast Texas and another in West Texas. Guaranty Bond Bank's deposit products and services include CDs and savings, checking, NOW, and money market accounts. Its lending activities include one- to four-family residential mortgages (more than a third of the company's loan portfolio) in addition to commercial mortgage, construction, business, agriculture, and personal loans. The company's GB Financial division provides wealth management, retirement planning, and trust services.

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.

Akbank T.A.S. provides banking services in Turkey through more than 715 branches, almost 2,000 ATMs, and more than 250,000 point-of-sale terminals. Internationally Akbank operates branches in Germany and in Malta; it also has a subsidiary bank in the Netherlands. Akbank, which is Turkey's second-largest publicly traded bank after Is Bankasi, also provides private bank and international trade finance services. Subsidiaries provide non-banking financial, capital-market, and investment services. The Sabanci family and its companies control 55% of Akbank.

The underlying principles that have made Johnson Financial Group so successful are the same values that serve all of the Johnson family's enterprises. A high level of integrity and accountability and the strong belief in the dignity of all people are at the heart of everything we do; and, as a privately-held company, we also maintain the ability to focus on the next quarter century rather than the next quarter's earnings report. This way of doing business has stood the test of time, trends and challenges.

There's nothing half way about HLF, or Hong Leong Finance. The company, with some 30 branches across Singapore, offers personal and business loans, insurance, wealth management, foreign exchange, and corporate financing services. The largest finance company in the country by assets, HLF specializes in financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it sponsors an annual forum for budding entrepreneurs. Hong Leong Finance Limited company also provides investment banking services including handling IPOs and other public offerings and M&A consulting. Investment firm Hong Leong Group Malaysia owns 73% of HLF.

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