Resona Holdings focuses on consumer and small business banking in the greater Tokyo area and Kansai region. Resona Bank provides corporate pension management, banking and trust services. Personal banking services at each bank includes loans for individuals, asset management, and estate planning. The company also provides corporate banking services such as loans, pension management, and real estate services. Altogether, Resona Holdings has about 600 branches throughout Japan.

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.

First National Community Bancorp is the holding company for First National Community Bank, which has about 20 offices in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne and Monroe counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. The bank provides standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, credit cards, mortgages, and other loans. It also offers wealth management services. The bank is mainly a business lender, with commercial mortgages accounting for more than 40% of its loan portfolio and operating loans comprising about another quarter. Chairman Louis DeNaples and his brother Dominick, who is vice chairman, each own around 10% of First National Community Bancorp.

PDS Gaming provides the machinery to do it, one bet at a time. The company is licensed to provide slot machines, video games, and other gambling devices to casinos in Nevada, New Jersey, and eight other states. PDS also serves US Native American jurisdictions. Its clients range from small casinos and truck stops to large resort properties and cruise ships. PDS Gaming offers equipment leasing and financing, in addition to financial services such as project financing, corporate recapitalization, and equity buyouts. A management group, consisting of husband and wife founders Johan and Lona Finley, and president and CFO Peter Cleary, own PDS.

Monroe Bancorp owns Monroe Bank, which operates about 20 branches in the central part of the state. Founded in 1892, the bank provides standard products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and credit cards. Its lending activities consist mainly of real estate loans, including commercial and residential mortgages, construction and home equity loans, and farmland loans. The bank also provides trust, investment advisory, private banking, estate planning, and brokerage services. Old National Bancorp is buying Monroe Bancorp for more than $80 million.

South Africa's largest bank, Standard Bank Group Limited offers a variety of retail and commercial banking, corporate and investment banking, investment management, and life insurance services through more than 600 locations in its home country. The bank also has some 400 additional branches in other sub-Saharan African nations, where it operates as Stanbic. Beyond Africa, the bank has offices in more than 15 countries on five continents. It serves individuals and business and corporate customers. Standard Bank holds a controlling stake in South African insurance firm Liberty Group.

Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) offers a range of consumer and business banking services through approximately 25 branches in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It operates in France and other parts of Switzerland, as well. The regional bank offers retail services such as deposit accounts and loans; its corporate banking division specializes in financing for real estate developments and construction. In 2008 BCGE merged subsidiaries Anker Bank and Synchrony Asset Management into the main organization. Together, the canton of Geneva and the city of Geneva control more than three-quarters of BCGE's stock.

Westfield Financial is the holding company for Westfield Bank, which serves western Massachusetts' Hampden County and surrounding areas from more than 10 branch locations. Founded in 1853, the bank has traditionally been a community-oriented provider of retail deposit accounts and loans, but it is placing more emphasis on serving commercial and industrial clients. Commercial real estate loans account for approximately 45% of the company's loan portfolio and business loans are more than 25%. The bank also makes a smaller number of consumer and home equity loans.

Glacier Bancorp is on a Rocky Mountain High. The multibank holding company owns about a dozen community banks in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Colorado, and Wyoming. Serving individuals, small to midsized businesses, not-for-profits, and public entities, the banks operate a total of about 100 branches. Glacier Bancorp offers traditional deposit products and credit cards, in addition to retail brokerage and investment services through agreements with third-party providers. Its lending activities consist of commercial real estate loans (almost half of the company's loan portfolio), as well as residential mortgages, business loans, and consumer loans.

Hingham Institution for Savings is a haven for wayward cash. The company has about 10 branches in Boston's south shore communities, operating in Boston, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Norwell, Scituate, South Hingham, and South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Founded in 1834, the bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, IRAs, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio is roughly split between commercial mortgages and residential mortgages (including home equity loans). To a far lesser extent, the bank also originates construction, business, and consumer loans.

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