Fulton Financial is simply full of banks. The multibank holding company owns eight community banks, which together operate about 270 branches in rural and suburban areas of eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. Most of its banks maintain a local identity. Their products include checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Commercial loans and mortgages account for about two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio. Home loans are available through its Fulton Mortgage Company subsidiary. Other nonbank units include investment management and trust services provider Fulton Financial Advisors and Fulton Insurance, an agency selling life insurance and related products.

LCNB National Bank, which operates some two dozen branches in southwestern Ohio. The bank offers personal and commercial banking services such as checking and savings accounts, money markets, IRAs, and CDs. Residential mortgages account for nearly half of the company's loan book. Other offerings include commercial mortgages, consumer loans including credit cards, and business loans. Trust services are also provided; subsidiary Dakin Insurance Agency sells commercial and personal property/casualty insurance. In 2007 LCNB acquired Sycamore National Bank, which allowed for financial growth and branch expansion.

Value Financial Services gives customers bucks for their bling. Founded in 1994 by former CEO John Thedford, the company runs about 70 pawn shops in Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, and Tennessee, operating as Value Pawn and Jewelry and Check Jewelry & Loan. It makes non-recourse loans secured by customers personal items, including jewelry, electronics, and musical instruments. The average amount of the company's pawn loans is about $150; its pawn service charges range from about 188% to 300% annually. At the end of 2008 Texas-based EZCORP acquired the company after initial talks had fallen through.

ESB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ESBF), a publicly traded financial services company, provides a wide range of retail and commercial financial products and services to customers in Western Pennsylvania though its wholly owned subsidiary, ESB Bank. ESB Financial Corporation was founded in 1915 as the Ellwood Federal Savings and Loan Association with a single location in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. In 1990, the Company became a Public Company through its Initial Public Offering. Growth through acquisition began with the acquisition of ESB Bancorp, Inc in 1994 and continued with Troy Hill Bancorp, Inc. in 1996, SHS Bancorp, Inc. in 1999, WSB Holding Company in 2001 and PHSB Financial Corporation in 2004. Today, ESB Bank conducts business through 24 offices in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties, Pennsylvania.

HCSB Financial has erased the state lines in the Carolinas. The institution is the holding company for Horry County State Bank, which operates more than a dozen branches that serve Horry and Marion counties in South Carolina, and Columbus and Brunswick counties in North Carolina. Horry County State Bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, money market accounts, and IRAs. The bank originates primarily real estate loans (more than half of its loan portfolio), followed by business loans, construction and development loans, consumer loans, and agricultural loans. The bank also offers investment services.

First Pioneer Farm Credit helps farmers explore the well charted territory of financing. The financial cooperative is part of the national Farm Credit System founded in 1916 to serve the needs of American farmers. It offers mortgages, seasonal loans, lines of credit, equipment leasing, record keeping, tax planning and preparation, appraisals, business consulting, life insurance, and multi-peril crop insurance to country homeowners and agricultural business owners. Most of its patrons are involved in farming, horticulture, forestry, or commercial fishing. First Pioneer Farm Credit serves some 7,000 customers through 15 offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.

The Ohio State Bank was founded in 1988 as The Marion Bank. Its mission was “To be a leader in providing quality banking services to all customers, at a fair price, with superior service and profitable growth.” The foundation of the Bank was to provide hometown banking, personalized service, and values you can bank on.

Founded in 1865, Banca Popolare di Milano (also known as Pop Milano) is a cooperative bank with more than 580 branches in Italy, concentrated in and around Milan and in northern and central portions of the country. It also operates a virtual bank (Webank) and commercial banks Banca di Legnano and Cassa di Risparmo di Alessandria. In addition to standard retail services such as deposit accounts, credit cards, and loans, the company offers corporate and investment banking, insurance, and wealth management. Merger talks between Banca Popolare di Milano and Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna have stalled.

The government-owned Banco de la Nación Argentina (or Bank of the Argentine Nation) is the country's largest bank. Under pressure from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to privatize it, the Argentine government moved to sell shares of the bank publicly. Economic chaos slowed that process and even caused the bank to deny that it was nationalizing local subsidiaries it had taken control of after they were abandoned by French bank Crédit Agricole. Banco de la Nación serves Argentina through about 650 branches. The bank provides industrial, agricultural, and export loans with an emphasis on small and midsized businesses.

TMB Bank provides commercial banking services to customers in Thailand. Formerly known as the Thai Military Bank, TMB began operations in 1957 and has since broadened its services to include deposits, personal loans, credit cards, life insurance, and currency exchange. Hundreds of TMB Bank branches operate throughout the country alongside currency exchange centers, while the bank also boasts overseas branches in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Thai Military Bank, Thai Danu Bank, and the Industrial Finance Corporation of Finance merged in 2004 to form the latest incarnation of TMB Bank.

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