M&F Bank has deep roots. Since 1890, M&F Bank has served a growing community of clients encompassing parts of four states. From 48 locations and the connected world M&F is delivering a wide array of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, organizations, governments and churches. From our base in Mississippi M&F now serves in Tennessee, Alabama and Florida. Our markets are diverse; our financial services are adapted to the needs of the client. Our mission is built on integrity and focused on exceeding the expectation of our customer. We believe in the basics of traditional banking. We also believe in a menu of related services including insurance, wealth management, investments, mortgage banking and specialized applications of the financial system. M&F is as relational as your best friend and neighbor while being as technologically adept as you require. Stewardship is the means and the end of our mission. As we grow shareholder value through exceptional service we are better able to do good and perpetuate the multiplication of value to customer, community and associate. Our calling is high, our commitment is unswerving and our mission is clear. At M&F Bank the focus is on results.

Enterprise Financial Services Corp operates as a financial holding company for the Enterprise Bank & Trust, which provides banking and wealth management services to individuals and business customers in the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan markets. It offers deposits products, such as demand deposits, interest-bearing transaction accounts, money market accounts, and savings deposits; and lending services, including commercial, commercial real estate, financial and industrial development, real estate construction and development, residential real estate, and consumer loans. Enterprise Financial Services Corp also provides financial planning, advisory, and trust services; personal advisory services that include estate planning, business succession planning, and retirement planning services; and investment management and fiduciary services for individuals, businesses, institutions, and nonprofit organizations. As of December 31, 2009, it operated four banking facilities in the St. Louis metropolitan area and seven banking facilities in the Kansas City Market. Enterprise Financial Services Corp was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Clayton, Missouri.

Capitol Bancorp raises banks. The holding company owns a network of community banks in more than a dozen states around the country. Many of the banks have only one location and are run locally. They target area business customers and high-net-worth individuals, with offerings such as checking and savings accounts, loans and mortgages, and trust and investment services. Its Capitol Wealth subsidiary provides wealth management services. Commercial real estate loans make up about half of Capitol Bancorp's total loan portfolio, which also includes residential mortgage, business, consumer, construction, and land development loans.

STEN Corporation is a diversified holding company with operations in automobile financing and contract manufacturing. Its STEN Financial subsidiary operates subprime auto lender and dealership inventory financing business STEN Credit Corporation and the Arizona-based EasyDrive Cars and Credit used car lots. STEN also owns Stencor, which manufactures products including surgical sterilization containers and filters (for STERIS Corporation, its largest customer), air filtration systems, and pest-control systems. CEO Kenneth Brimmer owns about a quarter of the company, as does former director Gary Copperud, who controls former subsidiary Burger Time.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is banking on the continued support of other banks. The bank provides funds for residential mortgages and community development loans to its members, which consist of about 450 financial institutions in New England, including banks, thrifts, credit unions, and insurance companies. The bank also lends to nonmember institutions such as state housing finance agencies, primarily to promote the funding of low to moderate income housing in the region. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is one of 12 regional wholesale banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Its region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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.

The Eighteenth Bank, Limited,the bank has more than 90 offices in its home prefecture, as well as about a dozen more in the nearby prefectures of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Yamaguchi; it also has a presence in both Osaka and Tokyo. In addition to offering traditional deposit banking services, the Eighteenth Bank and its subsidiaries are active in such business areas as leasing, credit cards, and economic research.

Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Patriot National Bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, and professionals in Connecticut and New York. It offers various consumer and commercial deposit accounts, such as checking accounts, interest-bearing NOW accounts, insured money market accounts, time certificates of deposit, savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, and health savings accounts. The company also provides commercial real estate and construction loans to area businesses and developers; real estate loans, including home mortgages, home improvement loans, bridge loans, home equity loans, and lines of credit to individuals; personal loans, such as lines of credit, installment loans, overdraft protection, and credit cards; and commercial loans, including secured and unsecured loans to service companies, real estate developers, manufacturers, restaurants, wholesalers, retailers, and professionals, as well as to small and medium-sized businesses. In addition, it offers Internet banking, bill paying, remote deposit capture, debit card, money order, travelers checks, and automated teller machine services; and solicits and processes mortgage loan applications from consumers on behalf of permanent investors and originates loans for sale. As of March 16, 2010, the company operated 19 full service branches, including 16 branches in Connecticut and 3 branches in New York, as well as operated a loan production office in Stamford, Connecticut. Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Security Federal is the holding company for Security Federal Bank, which has about a dozen offices in southwestern South Carolina's Aiken and Lexington counties. It expanded into Columbia, South Carolina and eastern Georgia in 2007. The bank offers checking and savings accounts, credit cards, CDs, IRAs, and other retail products and services. Commercial business and mortgage loans make up more than 60% of the company's lending portfolio, which also includes residential mortgages (about 25%), and consumer loans. Security Federal also offers trust services, investments, and life, home, and auto insurance.

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.

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