Community Bank Shares of Indiana is the holding company for Your Community Bank and Scott County State Bank. The banks serve customers from about 20 locations in southern Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. Both banks offer deposit products such as checking, money market, and savings accounts, as well as IRAs and CDs. Their lending activities center on commercial mortgages and residential real estate loans (each around 25% of the company's loan portfolio), but also include business, construction, and consumer (including home equity, home improvement and auto) loans and credit cards. Community Bank Shares of Indiana is focused on organic growth within existing markets.

Great American Bancorp, Inc. operates as the savings and loan holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana (the Bank) in Illinois. The Bank provides various retail banking services to individuals, families, and businesses in Champaign County, Illinois and surrounding counties. It engages in generating deposits and originating loans. The Bank offers various deposit products to its customers, including savings, demand deposits, NOW accounts, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is an $88.1 billion wholesale bank and one of 12 district banks chartered in 1932 by the U.S. Congress to ensure a secure source of mortgage funds to thrifts, insurance companies, and housing finance institutions. In 1989, the charter was expanded to include commercial banks and credit unions through the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). Today, the FHLB System, which is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is over 8,000 members strong.

Tower Bancorp is the holding company for Graystone Tower Bank, which has about 50 branches in central and southeastern Pennsylvania and neighboring portions of Maryland. The bank offers standard retail products, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit and debit cards. It uses funds from deposits mainly to write residential and commercial mortgage loans, which account for more than three-quarters of its loan portfolio. Wealth management services are offered through an agreement with UVEST Financial Services, a division of LPL Financial.

Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is one of India's largest state-controlled banks and provides banking and financial services throughout the country. Established with a focus on foreign exchange and overseas banking, IOB has some 1,800 domestic branches and about a half-dozen international branches. It provides deposit, lending, mortgage, currency transfer, agri-business consultation, and credit card services. Specialized branches offer services related to such concerns as commercial and industrial credit, industrial finance, and high-tech agriculture.

Turk Ekonomi Bankasi Anonim Sirketi offers standard retail and commercial services from about 340 branches (it has about triped its locations since 2005) and more than 120 ATMs in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul. Subsidiaries include TEB Investment, TEB Insurance, and The Economy Bank in the Netherlands. Together, the group provides leasing, factoring, insurance, asset management, and investment brokerage services. BNP Paribas owns 50% of TEB Mali Yatirimlar, which in turn owns some 85% of TEB. BNP Paribas is merging the business of Fortis Bank in Turkey with that of TEB, a move that will nearly double TEB's branch network.

Nara Bank is committed to bringing positive change to the diverse communities we serve, consistent with the requirements of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). When it became apparent that low-income communities and individuals were being overlooked by financial institutions, Congress established CRA in 1977 to encourage banks to meet the needs of the entire communities they serve, including low and moderate-income areas. Nara Bank embraces the spirit and intent of CRA and maintains a "Satisfactory" CRA rating issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.Our business strategy is to promote economic growth and create a positive change within the underserved and low-to-moderate income communities we serve. Nara Bank, designated as a "Preferred Lender" by the Small Business Administration, provides SBA 504 and 7a loans in addition to its own lending programs targeted to small and minority-owned businesses. Investments and grants are extended to meet a variety of needs within our communities, including affordable housing, education, financial literacy, and social services. In 2001 Nara Bank made a $1,000,000 ten year commitment to the Nara Scholarship Foundation, whose mission is to provide scholarships to high school seniors demonstrating financial need as well as academic excellence. Working to be an integral part of our community, Nara Bank employees enthusiastically volunteer their time and expertise at bank-sponsored seminars for small businesses, financial literacy workshops, and other local area events

Banco BPI, S.A. is engaged in a wide range of investment banking and commercial banking activities. Investment-related services offered by the bank include corporate finance, equities, treasury and bonds, asset management, private banking, and venture capital. Its commercial business includes banking for individuals, companies, and institutions, and the usual array of lending, leasing and mortgaging, and credit services. Banco BPI serves about 1.5 million customers through some 700 branches across Portugal, as well as about 35 investment centers and various other operations. The company has insurance partnerships in Portugal with Allianz and Cosec.

Doing business as BankWest, Bank of Western Australia provides mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, savings, and deposit products. It is not merely active in Western Australia, however BankWest has established distribution channels in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney; these make up about a half of total lending. BankWest opened for business in 1895 as the Agricultural Bank of Western Australia; it was acquired by Bank of Scotland (the BOS in HBOS) in 1995. In late 2008 Commonwealth Bank of Australia acquired BankWest from struggling HBOS, itself acquired by British bank Lloyds shortly after.

Summit State Bank is a community bank committed to serving our customers and community with the highest standards. In addition to our consistently strong financial stability, our responsive, knowledgeable and friendly staff will change the way you look at what your bank can really do for you.We are more than just your bank- we are your partner. We support our customers by buying their products and using their services in a way that only a community bank can. We attribute our success to making sound financial decisions, having dedicated employees and attracting quality customers. Our Summit Way Service Standards outline our unwavering commitment to the exceptional service our customers receive.As a Sonoma County-based community bank, our customers know that by banking locally, their money is put back into our community to support our local economy, jobs, businesses and nonprofits.

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