UniCredit S.p.A. provides various banking and financial services primarily in central and eastern Europe, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, and Ukraine. Its Retail segment offers financial services to mass market, affluent and small business customers. This segment provides consumer credit, residential mortgages, and asset gathering services. The company’s Corporate & Investment Banking segment offers financing and advisory services that include investment banking products, such as corporate finance and advisory, syndicated loans, leveraged buy-outs, project and commodity finance, real estate financing, and principal investments. This segment also provides cash management and e-banking solutions; and trade finance products and services, including letters of credit, guarantees and documentary credits, and forfeiting, as well as trade management solutions. Its Private banking segment offers advisory services and solutions for private banking. The company’s Asset Management segment provides a range of financial solutions, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and assets administration, as well as portfolios for institutional investors and structured products. UniCredit S.p.A. operates approximately 9800 branches. The company is based in Milan, Italy.

Triodos Bank NV performs traditional banking functions by offering savings, loan, and investment products, but it also touts its socially conscious investing policy. The company lends only to "ethical" organizations and businesses (read: environmental charities and liberal political causes). Founded in 1980, Triodos Bank counts Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, The Soil Association, and the Quaker Housing Trust among its business partners. Triodos has offices in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. The bank was established in 1973.

Established in 2002 to consolidate the operations of E.Sun Bank and other subsidiaries, E.Sun provides commercial banking, venture capital, securities trading, and other financial services to businesses and individuals throughout the country. The group depends on commercial banking services for its bread and butter (90% of annual revenues) and carries out additional financial operations through six subsidiaries. An attempt to acquire Taiwan Business Bank in 2005 broke down amid union protests. A year later the group allied with Singapore's Temasek which would eventually control 6% through Fullerton Financial Holdings.

First Community Bank adventure began during a rafting trip down the Colorado River. That trip inspired President & CEO H. Patrick "Pat" Dee and others to start a different kind of bank. They envisioned a bank where employees were given responsibility and trust, customers were treated like friends, and serious banking could be fun. In 1988 First State Bank of Taos was purchased. Already rich in tradition and deeply rooted in community values, the best of our charter bank was preserved while feeding it the resources and perseverance the bank would need to continue growing. That little bank has now grown to a $2.6 billion regional bank covering most of New Mexico and the Phoenix area.

Provident New York Bancorp is the holding company for Provident Bank, a community-based thrift operating some 35 offices in New York's Hudson Valley region and another in New Jersey operating as Towncenter Bank. Founded in 1888, the bank attracts consumers and business clients by offering traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts and CDs; its Provident Municipal Bank subsidiary provides deposit services to area municipalities. The bank uses funds from deposits to originate primarily real estate loans and mortgages. Subsidiary Hudson Valley Investment Advisors provides money management services for institutional and individual investors.

United Bank of India provides a variety of retail, deposit, and commercial banking services throughout India. Tracing its roots to 1914, UBI offers a variety of deposit services, such as fixed deposits, reinvestment plans, and stock investment instruments. Its retail credit division provides auto, home, and education loans, as well as consumer loans. UBI operates through about 30 regional offices and more than 1,450 branches and has historically been involved in rural and semi-urban development initiatives. The bank also has international branches located at Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai. The company, nationalized in 1969, plans to go public in 2010.

Center Bancorp is the holding company for Union Center National Bank, which operates about a dozen offices in northern New Jersey's Morris and Union counties. A full-service commercial bank, Union Center offers individuals and local businesses such deposit products as checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and IRAs. It also offers trust services. Commercial loans account for about 50% of the bank's loan portfolio; residential mortgages account for most of the remainder. Subsidiaries offer services such as advertising, insurance (annuities, property/casualty, life, and health), wealth management, and real estate investment trust (REIT) operations.

Park Bancorp, the holding company for Park Federal Savings Bank. The community-oriented bank serves Chicago and Westmont, Illinois, through about five offices. It offers deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Its lending activities focus on residential mortgages (one- to two-family residential mortgages account for nearly 60% of its loan portfolio and multifamily mortgages represent more than 15%). Other loan products include commercial real estate mortgages and land, construction, and consumer loans. As a group, board members and executive officers own more than a third of Park Bancorp.

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Wilshire State Bank that offers a range of financial products and services. It accepts various deposit products, including certificates of deposit, regular savings accounts, money market accounts, checking and negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, installment savings accounts, and individual retirement accounts. The company’s loan portfolio comprises commercial real estate loans and home mortgage lending, commercial business loans and trade finance, small business administration loans, consumer loans, and construction loans. It also provides trade finance products that include the issuance and negotiation of commercial and standby letters of credit, as well as handling of documentary collections. In addition, the company offers Internet banking, automatic teller machines, and armored carrier services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 23 branch offices in California, Texas, New Jersey, and New York; and 5 loan production offices in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, and Annandale. Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Southern Connecticut Bancorp is the holding company for The Bank of Southern Connecticut, which serves greater New Haven from about five locations. The bank offers standard deposit products, such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. It is mainly a business lender, with operating loans and commercial loans secured by real estate comprising about 90% of the company's loan portfolio. Construction, consumer installment, and home equity loans round out its lending activities. Southern Connecticut Bancorp and Naugatuck Valley Financial called off plans to merge in 2010.

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