Camden National Corporation is the holding company for Camden National Bank, which was founded in 1875 and once issued its own US currency. With about 40 branches in 10 Maine counties, the bank provides checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Residential mortgages make up more than 40% of its loan portfolio; business loans, including commercial mortgages, make up another 40%; and consumer loans constitute the remainder. Subsidiary Union Trust operates nine branches in the coastal counties of Hancock and Washington, while Acadia Trust provides trust, fiduciary, investment management, and retirement plan administration services and Acadia Financial Consultants offers brokerage and insurance services.

Santander UK (formerly Alliance & Leicester) offers deposit and lending services throughout the UK. Its largest segment is its traditional savings and home mortgage business, but the company also offers checking accounts, credit cards, and consumer finance, as well as commercial services such as cash management and asset financing. The firm has alliances with such firms as Legal & General and Zurich to provide investment and insurance products. Its approximately 5.5 million retail customers can access the bank through more than 300 branches, 2,500 ATMs, and 14,000 post offices across the UK. Spanish banking giant Santander bought Alliance & Leicester in 2008. It was rebranded Santander UK in 2010.

Arvest Bank is a regional bank that operates in a unique, customer-focused way. Arvest delivers the convenience and technological advantages of a large super-regional bank, but with the local commitment and decision-making of a local community bank. Our primary focus is on meeting and exceeding customer expectations through convenient hours, an extensive network of branches, competitive rates and pricing, technological innovation and offering a full line of banking, mortgage, investment, lending and wealth management services.

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS), which provides consumer, business, and other banking services to 6 million clients through more than 3,000 branches throughout the country. BMPS also has limited operations in several other nations. The bank, which claims to be the oldest in the world, was founded in 1472 to help the poor. It is split into a public institution (chiefly active in benevolent works, grants, and public assistance) and the incorporated banking arm (focused on profits). The Fondazione Monte dei Paschi owns about 49% of the bank, but controls some 60% of it.

PlainsCapital Corporation is an independent Texas bank holding company and diversified financial services company comprised of three separate operating businesses: PlainsCapital Bank, FirstSouthwest and PrimeLending. PlainsCapital Bank,with $5 billion in assets, is the financial and strategic foundation of this family of companies.

Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, S.A. offers business banking services (its main focus) like checking and money market accounts and foreign trade financing. Personal products include loans, checking and money market accounts, debit cards, and CDs. BICSA can also buy and sell currency, set up and administer trusts, issue credit cards, and conduct foreign currency trading. With offices in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and the US (Miami), the bank serves its international clients with checks drawn on foreign accounts. BICSA is owned by the Costa Rican government.

Marquette Commercial Finance, Inc. company provides services to middle-market companies including asset-based transfer facilities and inventory lines of credit. Clients include companies in the health care, consumer products, natural gas, and manufacturing industries. It has operations in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, and Texas. Marquette Commercial Finance is part of the Marquette Financial Companies family of businesses.

MutualFirst Financial is the holding company for MutualFirst Bank, which has more than 30 financial centers and trust offices in northern Indiana and a loan production office in southern Michigan. The bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. More than 40% of the company's loan portfolio is devoted to residential mortgages. Consumer loans, including auto, boat, RV home equity, and home improvement loans, account for about 25%. Business loans also make up about a quarter of the MutualFirst's loan portfolio.

Community Capital is the holding company for CapitalBank, which operates about 20 branches in western South Carolina. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank provides standard deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Residential real estate mortgages account for about 40% of its loan portfolio; construction loans are approximately 25%, as are commercial mortgages. Consumer and business loans round out its lending activities. The bank's Wealth Management Group provides investment management, retirement planning, fiduciary, and estate settlement services.

Sydbank serves some 345,000 retail banking customers and small-to-medium businesses, primarily in Denmark (where it is the fourth-largest bank, with about 105 branches). Sydbank's core geographical regions are Aarhus, Funen, and southern Jutland; it also has branches in Copenhagen, and its 2008 acquisition of bankTrelleborg boosted its operations in Zealand. In addition, the company has a handful of branches in Germany and Switzerland. Sydbank, which offers a range of private banking services and asset management, is part of the Sydbank Group, which holds DMK-Holding, SBK-Invest, Ejendomsselskabet, and Sydbank (Schweiz) AG. Sydbank was formed in 1970 after the merger of four local banks in southern Jutland.

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