Midwest BankCentre is a fast-growing, progressive community bank with enduring traditions and values. Founded as Lemay Bank & Trust Company, our long history of serving St. Louis began in 1906. Since then, we've maintained our commitment to the community, changed our name to more accurately reflect our regional focus and continually enhanced our products and services to serve the times.

State Street Bank provides custody, shareholder services, brokerage, securities finance, research, and other management services for institutional clients around the world. Customers include mutual funds, pension plans, and investment managers. At the top of the custody-services heap, State Street has about $19 trillion in assets under custody. It also has nearly $2 trillion in assets under administration. Other subsidiaries include asset manager State Street Global Advisors and State Street Alternative Investment Solutions.

New York Community Bancorp is the holding company for New York Community Bank (one of the largest thrifts in the US) and New York Commercial Bank. In New York, New York Community Bank operates through four divisions: Queens County Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, and Roslyn Savings Bank. It also serves customers in New Jersey through its Garden State Community Bank division. Altogether, it has more than 200 branches throughout the two states. Nonbank subsidiaries offer asset management and life insurance. The company expanded into Arizona, Ohio, and Florida with its 2009 FDIC-assisted acquisition of the failed AmTrust Bank.

The Principal Financial Group® (The Principal®) is a leading global financial company offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services.Our range of products and services includes retirement solutions, life and health insurance, wellness programs, and investment and banking products through our diverse family of financial services companies and national network of financial professionals.

Oberbank, which has more than 130 locations, has operations throughout Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. The bank serves individual clients, but caters to business, particularly the industrial sector and small and midsized firms. Oberbank units are involved in such activities as investment, leasing, and real estate lending. A unit of Unicredit Bank Austria owns about one-third of Oberbank, which has minority cross-ownership alliances with Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark (BKS) and Bank für Tirol and Vorarlberg (BTV).

Suffolk County National Bank, which serves Suffolk County, New York, through about 30 branches. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers standard services such as checking, savings, and money market accounts, and trust and asset management. It also provides insurance and investment products, including IRAs, mutual funds, annuities, bonds, and brokerage services. Commercial mortgages account for about a third of the company's loan portfolio; business loans make up another 20%. The portfolio also includes residential mortgages and consumer and construction loans.

Banco Espírito Santo (BES) is one the largest banks in Portugal, with about 500 branches throughout the country. It is the flagship of Espírito Santo Financial Group, which holds a controlling stake in the bank. BES has subsidiaries that provide asset management, investment banking, private equity, factoring and leasing, and insurance services. The company has expanded into strategic international markets including Brazil, Spain, France, and the US. The bank's origins date back to 1869, when its namesake José Maria do Espírito Santo e Silva founded Caza de Cambio, a streetside exchange in São Paulo.

Blackhawk Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company of Blackhawk State Bank, a commercial bank operating in Wisconsin and Illinois in the United States. The bank provides various consumer banking, business banking, and related financial services. Consumer banking services to individuals include demand, savings, and time deposits. Consumer lending services include installment loans, mortgage loans, overdraft protection, personal lines of credit, and credit cards. The business banking services, which are provided to small business, commercial, and governmental organizations, include commercial and commercial real estate lending, deposits, cash management, and letters of credit. The bank’s investment portfolio consists primarily of U.S. government and agency securities, mutual funds, corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, and municipal bonds or repurchase agreements backed by similar securities. The bank’s deposits are divided between interest bearing and noninterest bearing. Noninterest bearing deposits consist of checking accounts of individuals, businesses, and governmental organizations. The interest-bearing deposits include savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and NOW accounts. As of December 31, 2003, the bank operated 11 branches in Wisconsin and Illinois. Blackhawk Bancorp was incorporated in 1989 and is based in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Old National Bancorp operates about 170 offices in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. Serving consumers and business customers, the bank offers standard fare such as checking and savings accounts, credit cards, and loans. Its treasury segment manages investments for the bank as well as for commercial clients. Business loans, commercial mortgages, and consumer loans account for the bulk of Old National's lending activities. The company also sells insurance, manages wealth for high-net-worth clients, and offers investment and brokerage services.

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.

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