Taishin Financial Holding is a key player in Taiwan's banking industry, offering an array of financial services to consumers and businesses. Through Taishin International Bank, the company targets its efforts on three core offerings: retail banking (deposits, housing and auto loans, credit cards, small-and-medium-enterprise lending), corporate banking (deposits, financing, factoring), and wealth management. It operates through more than 160 locations. Subsidiary Taishin Bills Finance underwrites corporate bonds. In 2009 Taishin Financial arranged to sell brokerage Taishin Securities to Taiwan-based KGI Securities for some $880 million.

Community Shores Bank is participating in the FDIC's Transaction Account Guarantee Program. Under that program, through December 31, 2010, all noninterest-bearing transaction accounts are fully guaranteed by the FDIC for the entire amount in the account. Coverage under the Transaction Account Guarantee Program is in addition to and separate from the coverage available under the FDIC's general deposit insurance rules.

Princeton National Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens First National Bank in north-central Illinois. Founded in 1865, the bank serves area residents and businesses through more than 20 branches in nearly as many communities. It offers traditional services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Business loans account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio, followed by commercial and residential mortgages. The bank also writes agricultural, construction, and consumer installment loans. Through Citizens Financial Advisors, it offers insurance, investments, farm management, and fiduciary services.

Bank of the Philippine Islands is one of that country's largest lenders. The universal bank has more than 800 branches in its homeland, as well as locations in Hong Kong, Italy, and the US. It provides asset management, mutual funds, electronic banking, and brokerage services in addition to standard commercial and consumer deposits, loans, and credit cards. The bank also performs investment banking services such as corporate finance and advisory. Giant Philippine conglomerate Ayala controls the Bank of the Philippine Islands, which sells insurance provided by other Ayala divisions.

BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for BankAtlantic that provides retail and commercial banking products and services in Florida. It offers deposit products, including commercial demand deposit accounts, retail demand deposit accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, various negotiable order of withdrawal accounts and individual retirement accounts, and Keogh retirement accounts. The company’s lending portfolio comprises commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, standby letters of credit and commitments, consumer loans, small business loans, and residential loans. As of December 31, 2009, it offered its services through approximately 100 branches in Florida. BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

NASB Financial is the holding company for North American Savings Bank, which operates about 15 branches and loan offices in the Kansas City area. Established in 1927, the bank offers a range of deposit products to retail and commercial customers, including checking, savings, and money market accounts and CDs. Its lending activities are fairly evenly split between mortgages secured by residential, commercial, and development properties. Subsidiary Nor-Am sells annuities, mutual funds, and credit life and disability insurance. Chairman David Hancock and his wife Linda (a board member) own a majority of NASB Financial.

Morton Community Bank has nearly 30 branches and divisions known collectively as "Your Hometown Community Banks of Central Illinois." Most bear the names of the communities in which they operate. Serving local consumers and businesses, the bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts and ATM, credit, and debit cards. Commercial and residential mortgages account for around two-thirds of its loan portfolio. Morton Community Bank provides financial planning services through its Investment Services division; personal and business insurance are offered through affiliate Winter Insurance. Morton acquired Citizens National Bank in 2009 after it was shut down by regulators.

Tompkins Financial, formerly Tompkins Trustco, is the holding company for Tompkins Trust Company, The Bank of Castile, and The Mahopac National Bank, which all offer traditional banking products and services through some 45 offices in upstate New York. Deposit products include checking, savings, and money market accounts. The company offers investment management services through Tompkins Investment Services, and financial planning and wealth management through subsidiary AM&M Financial Services. Tompkins Insurance Agencies sells property/casualty coverage to consumers and businesses in central and western New York.

Patelco Credit Union has evolved as well. Founded in 1936, it has grown from a five-member organization with $500 in assets serving employees of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph to a nearly 300,000-member credit union serving employees from more than 1,100 organizations, as well as other residents of California who qualify for membership. A telephone company credit union until 1983, Patelco Credit Union now operates about 40 offices in Northern California and one in the Chicago area. It provides deposit, lending, insurance, and investment services, as well as credit cards, debit cards, and online banking.

Caisse Regionale de Credit Agricole d'Ile-de-France, also known as CA Ile-de-France, provides banking services to individual and commercial customers from its network of more than 300 branches. CA Ile-de-France is the largest of Credit Agricole's 39 regional banks, or caisses, which collectively account for a quarter of France's consumer banking market. In addition to its services for French citizens, the bank operates a division dedicated to serving English-speaking individuals coming to work or study in France. Credit Agricole controls about one-quarter of CA Ile-de-France.

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