BNC Bancorp knows the ABCs of the financial world. The firm is the holding company for Bank of North Carolina, which has about 20 locations in both North and South Carolina. The bank offers community-oriented services to local business and retail customers, providing checking, savings, and money market accounts, credit cards, and CDs. Its loan portfolio is mainly composed of residential and commercial mortgages and construction loans. Bank of North Carolina also offers insurance, retirement planning, and other investment products and services. In 2010 BNC Bancorp acquired the failed Beach First National Bank in an FDIC-assisted transaction, expanding Bank of North Carolina's branch network into South Carolina.

If Old McDonald's farm is in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, or Tennessee, he might have a loan-loan-here and a loan-loan-there from Farm Credit Services of Mid-America. The cooperative association, one of the largest in the National Farm Credit System, provides lending and other financial services to these states' farmers and rural homeowners. Borrowers use Farm Credit's products to purchase real estate, homes, livestock, and farming equipment, to fund capital improvements, and to cover operating and living expenses. It has a loan volume of about $12 billion and serves some 85,000 customers through nearly 100 offices located throughout its service area.

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.

Provident New York Bancorp is the holding company for Provident Bank, a community-based thrift operating some 35 offices in New York's Hudson Valley region and another in New Jersey operating as Towncenter Bank. Founded in 1888, the bank attracts consumers and business clients by offering traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts and CDs; its Provident Municipal Bank subsidiary provides deposit services to area municipalities. The bank uses funds from deposits to originate primarily real estate loans and mortgages. Subsidiary Hudson Valley Investment Advisors provides money management services for institutional and individual investors.

Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Wilshire State Bank that offers a range of financial products and services. It accepts various deposit products, including certificates of deposit, regular savings accounts, money market accounts, checking and negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, installment savings accounts, and individual retirement accounts. The company’s loan portfolio comprises commercial real estate loans and home mortgage lending, commercial business loans and trade finance, small business administration loans, consumer loans, and construction loans. It also provides trade finance products that include the issuance and negotiation of commercial and standby letters of credit, as well as handling of documentary collections. In addition, the company offers Internet banking, automatic teller machines, and armored carrier services. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 23 branch offices in California, Texas, New Jersey, and New York; and 5 loan production offices in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Denver, and Annandale. Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Comm Bancorp is the holding company for the Community Bank and Trust Company, which operates about 15 branches in northeastern Pennsylvania. Targeting individuals and small to midsized local businesses, the bank offers standard deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Business loans make up the largest portion of the bank's loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages and residential mortgages. The bank writes a relatively fewer number of construction and consumer loans. The bank has subsidiaries that offer insurance and asset management, commercial leasing, and title insurance. F.N.B. Corporation is buying Comm Bancorp for some $70 million.

Founded in 1952, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) reigns supreme as the largest and most dominant financial services company in Kuwait (fifth among worldwide Arab banks). Through about 65 branches in Kuwait, the bank offers traditional personal banking services such as money accounts, credit cards, loans, and other related banking packages, and it also caters to businesses and commercial clients. Brokerage services and several different kinds of investment funds are offered by the bank as well. NBK has operations in about a dozen additional countries in places such as London, Paris, New York, and Singapore.

Oritani Financial could give an oratory on local banking in New Jersey. The holding company owns Oritani Bank (formerly Oritani Savings Bank), which offers retail and commercial deposit and loan banking services from about 20 locations in three Garden State counties. Oritani Financial specializes in multi-family and commercial real estate lending, which make up more than half of its loan portfolio. Oritani Financial also writes one- to four-family and second mortgages, as well as equity and construction loans. It invests in real property through its Hampshire Financial, Oritani LLC, and Ormon divisions; Oritani Asset is a real estate investment trust (REIT).

Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial products and services in Korea. It offers various commercial banking products and services consisting of demand deposits, installment deposits, certificates of deposit, and repurchase instruments; and working capital loans and facilities loans. The company also provides various consumer banking products and services, including deposit products; and lending products, such as general purpose household loans, mortgage loans, and home equity loans. In addition, it offers various private banking services comprising time deposits, demand deposits, savings deposits, installment deposits, and certificates of deposit; and financial and real estate advisory services to high net worth and mass affluent customers. Further, the company provides credit cards; Internet banking; mobile banking; inter-account fund transfer; and balance, transaction, and customer service enquiry services. Additionally, it offers various capital market services, including securities investment and trading, derivatives trading, asset securitization services, investment banking, and securities brokerage services; securities investment and trading services; and derivative products and services. The company also provides asset securitization services, investment banking, securities brokerage, international banking, asset management, and trust management services. In addition, it offers merchant banking, bancassurance, consumer finance, and life insurance products and services. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 1,180 branches and 8,539 ATMs and cash dispensers in Korea. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Midland Capital Holdings Corporation operates as the holding company for Midland Federal Savings and Loan Association, which offers banking services in Illinois. It provides regular passbook accounts, NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts, and fixed interest rate certificates of deposits. The company loan portfolio comprises first mortgage real estate loans secured by owner occupied one- to four-family residential property; multifamily residential loans; consumer loans, including educational loans, automobile loans, and loans secured by savings deposits

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