Credito Emiliano, one of Italy's leading midsized bank holding companies. Through its 20 financial subsidiaries and affiliates, Credito Emiliano (also known as Credem) offers a host of retail, commercial, and institutional banking services through some 590 branches across Italy. In addition to its lending and deposit products, the financial group offers life and liability insurance, pensions, asset management, leasing, and various corporate financial services. Credem Holding, owned by the Maramotti family (known in fashion circles for its design house Max Mara), controls the company.

1886 was a year that saw an emergence of new ideas and a growth of new concepts. It had been only twenty-three years since Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his Raiders had invaded and burned buildings in Salem. Grover Cleveland, the 22nd President of the United States, dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and also became the first president to marry while in office. Baseball player Ty Cobb was born. The novel, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde had been published and was fast becoming a classic.

The largest bank in Israel, Bank Hapoalim caters to individual, commercial, and corporate clients at home and abroad. Within Israel, the Bank Hapoalim Group has more than 270 full-service branches and business centers. Another 30 express branches are in the works. Overseas, it has about 45 branches, correspondent offices, and financial subsidiaries in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America; its international focus is on private banking and the corporate sector. Bank Hapoalim provides investment banking services including the underwriting of and investment in companies; it also provides trust services to individuals and businesses.

Macatawa Bank Corporation is the holding company for Macatawa Bank. Since its 1997 founding, the company has grown into a network of about 25 branches serving western Michigan's Allegan, Kent, and Ottawa counties. The bank provides standard services, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, safe deposit boxes, and ATM cards. It also offers investment services and products through an agreement with a third-party provider. With deposit funds, the bank primarily originates commercial mortgages and business loans, which account for approximately 50% and 25% of its loan book, respectively. Macatawa Bank also originates residential mortgages and consumer loans.

SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for SouthFirst Bank, which provides general banking services in Alabama. The bank primarily generates deposits and originates various loans. Its deposit products include NOW accounts, money-market accounts, passbook savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. The banks loan portfolio comprises one-to-four family, owner-occupied, and residential mortgage; fixed-rate and adjustable-rate-mortgage residential construction loans; consumer loans, including savings account loans; and loans secured by second mortgage on real estate, such as home improvement and home equity loans.

Southern First Bancshares operates in two markets: Greenville, South Carolina, where it operates under the Greenville First Bank moniker, and in Columbia, South Carolina as Southern First Bank. Selling itself as a local alternative to larger institutions, the company, which has more than five bank branches, targets individuals and small to midsized businesses. It offers traditional deposit services and products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and CDs. The banks use funds from deposits mainly to write commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and commercial business loans.

Southwest Georgia Financial is the holding company for Southwest Georgia Bank, which also operates as Baker County Bank, Bank of Pavo, and Sylvester Banking Company. With about 10 locations, the bank provides such retail services as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, CDs, and credit cards, as well as property/casualty, life, and disability insurance and trust and investment services. Bank subsidiary Empire Financial Services provides commercial mortgage banking services. Real estate loans account for some three-fourths of the company's lending portfolio. Southwest Georgia Bank was founded as Moultrie National Bank in 1928.

SCBT Financial is the holding company for South Carolina Bank and Trust and South Carolina Bank and Trust of the Piedmont (both are also known as SCBT), which operate more than 40 branches throughout the Palmetto state. The company also owns North Carolina Bank and Trust, or NCBT, which has three locations in the Charlotte area. SCBT Financial entered northern Georgia in 2010 when it acquired the failed Community Bank & Trust in an FDIC-assisted transaction; the deal added nearly 40 locations, most of them inside supermarkets, though SBCT later shuttered several of them. Serving retail and business customers, the banks provide deposit accounts, loans, and mortgages, as well as trust and investment services.

First Keystone Corporation operates as the holding company for First Keystone National Bank that provides commercial banking product and services, and trust services to individuals and small to medium sized businesses in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania market areas. The company offers various deposit products, which include demand deposits, money market accounts, savings accounts, and time deposits, as well as interest bearing demand deposits, such as NOW accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; real estate mortgage loans; and consumer and other loans. In addition, the company provides personal, corporate, and agency services that include trust investment accounts, investment advisory services, mutual funds, estate planning, management of pension, and profit sharing plans to individuals, corporations, and others. It has 15 branch locations, including 5 branches in Columbia County, 5 branches in Luzerne County, 1 branch in Montour County, and 4 branches in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1864 and is headquartered in Berwick, Pennsylvania.

The Commerce Bank of Oregon has one branch in Portland that caters to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and professionals. It serves local residents too. The bank offers standard services, including savings accounts and credit cards. Investment products such as certificates of deposit and money market accounts are provided through affiliate Zions Bank and third-party provider Fidelity. Commercial and industrial loans account for a majority of The Commerce Bank of Oregon's loan portfolio.

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