Malvern Federal Bancorp was formed in 2008 to be the holding company for Malvern Federal Savings Bank, which has been in business since 1887. The bank operates seven financial centers in Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia. It offers standard deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and retirement plans. The community-oriented institution has traditionally been a leading originator of residential home loans in Chester County, but has been shifting its focus toward issuing more commercial real estate, construction, and consumer loans.

Consumers Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Consumers National Bank, which provides various commercial and retail banking services. Consumers Bancorp, Inc. involves in attracting deposits from businesses and individual customers and uses such deposits to originate commercial, mortgage, and consumer loans in its market area, consisting primarily of Stark, Columbiana, Carroll, and contiguous counties in Ohio. Its deposit products include interest and noninterest bearing accounts, such as NOW accounts, savings account, time deposits, and short-term borrowings, as well as federal home loan bank advances. The company’s loan portfolio comprises real estate mortgage and construction loans; commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; and installment loans to individuals. As of June 30, 2009, Consumers Bancorp, Inc. operated 10 branch offices. Consumers Bancorp is headquartered in Minerva, Ohio.

People's United Financial is the holding company for People's United Bank (formerly People's Bank). Founded in 1842, the bank has more than 300 locations (including traditional branches, supermarket branches, commercial banking offices, investment and brokerage offices, and equipment leasing offices) in New England and New York. In addition to retail and commercial banking services, the bank offers trust, wealth management, brokerage, and insurance services. Its lending activities mainly consist of commercial mortgages (more than a third of its loan portfolio), commercial and industrial loans, equipment financing, and consumer loans.

Midland Capital Holdings Corporation operates as the holding company for Midland Federal Savings and Loan Association, which offers banking services in Illinois. It provides regular passbook accounts, NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts, and fixed interest rate certificates of deposits. The company loan portfolio comprises first mortgage real estate loans secured by owner occupied one- to four-family residential property; multifamily residential loans; consumer loans, including educational loans, automobile loans, and loans secured by savings deposits

GE Facto (which also does business as GE Factofrance or Societe Factofrance) keeps businesses from having to factor in the time it takes customers to pay bills. Companies can avoid the typical 30- to 90-day billing cycle by selling their invoices to Factofrance, which then collects the money. Factofrance also provides accounts receivable management and debt recovery. Subsidiaries include Cofacredit and Factobail, which handle export and IT financing, respectively. Part of GE, Factofrance was formed by the 2002 merger of GE Capital Finance and Heller Financial. (The latter firm was founded in 1966 by Walter Heller, the Banque de l'Indochine, and BNP).

Indiana Community Bancorp is holding company for Indiana Bank and Trust, which operates around 20 offices in south-central and southern regions of the Hoosier State. The bank offers such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, CDs, and IRAs. The bank earns much of its revenues from its lending activities. Commercial real estate loans account for more than half of the company's loan portfolio. Indiana Bank and Trust also writes residential, consumer, auto, construction, and other loans. The bank was founded as New Building and Loan Association in 1908.

Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires (Banco Galicia) is one of Argentina's top three private banks by assets. Through some 350 offices, the bank offers loans to a client base primarily of businesses and individuals. It also provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking; insurance (through its Sudamericana subsidiary); risk management; and credit and debit cards. The bank, founded in 1905, has branches in neighboring Uruguay. Grupo Financiero Galicia, which is controlled by the Escasany, Ayerza, and Braun families, owns a 95% stake in Banco Galicia. The bank is looking to boost lending in the private sector.

Citizens Community Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens Community Federal, a community bank with about two dozen branches in Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, and northern Michigan. Serving consumers and businesses, the bank offers standard deposit services such as savings, checking, money market, and retirement accounts, as well as a variety of loan products. The bank focuses its lending activities on one- to four-family mortgages, which represent more than half of its loan portfolio. The bank also offers consumer loans such as auto and personal loans; it does not routinely make commercial loans. Founded in 1938, Citizens Community was a state-chartered credit union until 2001.

BNCCORP is the holding company for BNC National Bank, which has about 20 branches in Arizona, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Serving individuals and small and midsized businesses, the bank offers deposit accounts, credit cards, and wealth management services. It also has residential mortgage banking operations in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Real estate loans account for nearly half of the company's portfolioThe Company offers financial products and services to meet the financial needs of its current customers, and potential customers, in the markets it serves.

Bank of America boasts one of the country's most extensive branch networks with more than 5,900 locations covering some 40 states from coast to coast. Its core services include consumer and small business banking, credit cards, and asset management. In early 2009 Bank of America paid some $50 billion in stock for Merrill Lynch, which had been crippled by the global credit crisis. The acquisition of the once-mighty investment bank known as "The Bull," which has an extensive retail brokerage network, beefs up Bank of America's wealth management, investment banking, and international business.

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