VTB Bank offers a smorgasbord of financial services for corporate, financial, and retail clients in Russia, Western Europe, Africa, and Asia. VTB retail services, conducted through VTB 24, include deposit banking, credit and lending services, and money transfers serving individuals and small businesses through a network of some 500 branches in large Russian cities. The company also provides investment banking and services for financial institutions that include foreign exchange trading, Inter-bank lending, and securities trading. The Russian government owns some 85% of VTB, but plans to reduce its stake by about half by 2014.

SBV&T knows the ABCs of banking. The corporation is the holding company for Springs Valley Bank & Trust, a community bank with about five locations in southern Indiana. Serving local individuals and businesses, the bank offers checking and savings accounts, loans, and mortgages, as well as trust and investment services. It is mainly a real estate lender, with residential and commercial mortgages making up most of the company's loan portfolio. Business, consumer, farmland, municipal, and construction and land development loans round out the bank's lending activities.

Aozora (which means blue sky in Japanese) was the second Japanese credit bank nationalized in the wake of Asia's financial crisis after the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (now Shinsei Bank). Bad loans and Japan's "Big Bang" financial deregulation added to its troubles. Now a full-service commercial bank, Aozora has some 20 branches in Japan and three offices overseas. In addition to insurance and trust services, Aozora Bank provides a wide range of business loans for medium and large corporations, asset management, investment advisory services and securitization. Aozora and Shinsei called off their plans to merge in 2010.

Wing Hang Bank offers retail banking, with a focus on mortgage lending, as well as consumer finance services, leasing, wealth management, insurance, securities brokerage, corporate banking, and treasury services. Wing Hang Bank has about 60 locations throughout Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China. The bank was founded in 1937 as a money-changing business. Chairman Patrick Fung and his family control Wing Hang Bank. It also is affiliated with The Bank of New York Mellon, which holds a 20% stake.

Chester National Bank is located approximately 60 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri on the Mississippi River with its Main Office located in Chester, Illinois, "The Home of Popeye". Originally organized in 1919, Chester National Bank conducts business from the main office in Chester, IL with two full service offices in Sparta and Red Bud, IL. Chester National Bank of Missouri is located in Perryville, Missouri. Chester National Bank of Missouri was formed in 1996 and conducts business from the main office located in Perry County, Missouri.

Caisse centrale Desjardins (CCD) keeps tabs on Canada's largest financial cooperative, the Desjardins Group. CCD is the accounting arm of the Desjardins group, which was founded in 1900 to serve working-class Quebecois. The group serves some 6 million members and has more than 500 local cooperatives (or caisses populaires) and credit unions (caisses d'economie) in Quebec and Ontario. CCD also operates in the US through Desjardins Bank in Florida. The company's offerings include loans, credit cards, and savings accounts, as well as insurance, investment funds, securities brokerage, and asset management.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis is a wholesale bank that provides loans, grants, and business services to member financial institutions in Indiana and Michigan. We are one of twelve such banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System established in 1932. FHLBanks are privately capitalized and funded, and receive no Congressional appropriations.

Centra Financial is the holding company for Centra Bank, which has 15 branches in eastern West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and western Maryland. The bank, which opened its doors in 2000, offers standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, residential mortgages, consumer loans, credit cards, and title insurance. It is mainly a business lender, with commercial loans, including operating loans, commercial mortgages, and agricultural loans, comprising some 70% of its loan portfolio.

Formed in 1992, borrower-owned AgriBank also provides credit to rural electric, water, and telephone systems. AgriBank serves borrowers in 15 states stretching from Ohio to Wyoming and Minnesota to Arkansas. AgriBank puts the "green" in green acres. A financial intermediary, AgriBank provides wholesale lending and business services to Farm Credit System (FCS) associations in America's heartland. Established by Congress in 1916, the FCS is a nationwide network of cooperatives that provides loans and financial services for farmers, ranchers, agribusiness owners, timber producers, and rural homeowners. Farm Credit System's co-ops write loans for homes, land, equipment, and other farm operating costs.

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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