Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

GrandSouth Bancorporation operates as the bank holding company for GrandSouth Bank that provides commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in South Carolina. Its deposit products include business and personal checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, term certificates of deposit, and IRA accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises secured and unsecured, short-to-intermediate term loans with floating and fixed interest rates for commercial, consumer, and residential purposes.

Valiant Holding was formed in 2002 with the merger of regional Swiss banks Valiant Bank (retail banking) and Valiant Privatbank (asset management) with IRB Interregio Bank and Luzerner Regiobank. Today, Valiant Bank serves German-speaking clients in Switzerland, while Banque Romande Valiant serves the country's Francophone population. Together, the two banks have more than 100 offices. Valiant Holding also owns Spar + Leihkasse Steffisburg, a bank with two branches in Switzerland. The banks offer savings and investments, mortgages and loans, retirement planning, and private banking services, including asset management for retail and institutional investors.

Hua Nan Financial Holdings is a financial holding company with operations in commercial banking, securities brokerage, venture capital, asset management, fund management, and insurance. Its flagship subsidiary Hua Nan Commercial Bank (HNCB) is one of Taiwan's largest banks. Established in 1919, today the bank serves some 5 million customers from about 200 branches. It has overseas branches in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, the UK, and the US. Other major arms of Hua Nan Financial include property/casualty firm South China Insurance, brokerage Hua Nan Securities, and investment manager Hua Nan Investment Trust.

Banque Audi sal provides a range of private, retail, and commercial banking services to customers in Lebanon and the wider Middle East; it offers private banking services through subsidiaries in Europe and the Americas. Banque Audi has more than 130 retail branches, and also serves as a market maker for Lebanese treasury bills. The bank traces its lineage to 1830, when it began as an outgrowth of the Audi family exchange business in the Lebanese city of Sidon; the firm is still headed by members of the Audi family. Egyptian firm EFG-Hermes holds more than a quarter of Banque Audi.

United PanAm Financial flies the choppy skies of subprime lending. Operating through subsidiaries United Auto Credit Corporation (UACC) and United Auto Business Operations (UABO), the specialty finance firm originates, buys, and services auto loan contracts for high-risk customers. The company buys contracts from independent and franchised used car dealers. Most borrowers have less-than-perfect credit histories, which impairs their ability to secure loans. UACC, once heavily localized in California, now has more than 15 offices throughout the country -- a dramatic decrease from what it had only a few years ago. Chairman Guillermo Bron and investment firm Pine Brook Road are buying United PanAm.

Norwood Financial Corp. serves individuals and local businesses through about a dozen branches in northeastern Pennsylvania. It offers standard deposit products and services including checking and savings accounts, money market savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Residential and commercial mortgages account for about 80% of Wayne Bank's loan portfolio. The bank also runs a trust and wealth management division; subsidiary Norwood Investment provides annuities and mutual funds; Norwood Settlement (70%-owned by the bank) offers title and settlement services. Norwood Financial is buying North Penn Bank; the deal will add five branches in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Pathfinder Bancorp is the holding company for Pathfinder Bank, which operates seven branches serving upstate New York's Oswego County and surrounding areas. Founded in 1859, the bank provides standard services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, IRAs, CDs, and credit cards. It primarily originates residential real estate loans, which account for the majority of the company's loan portfolio. The bank's Pathfinder Investment Services division provides mutual funds, insurance, brokerage, and financial advisory services. Mutual holding company Pathfinder Bancorp, M.H.C., owns nearly two-thirds of the company.

alWest Bancorp is the holding company for South County Bank. Serving Southern California, the bank has branches in Irvine and Rancho Santa MargaritaSouth County Bank is headquartered in Irvine, California with branches in Rancho Santa Margarita, Irvine, Huntington Beach, Moreno Valley and Redlands. Deeply committed to the communities served, the Bank has established divisions with products and services to respond to the culture and development of each unique market.

Inter-American Development Bank support efforts by Latin America and the Caribbean countries to reduce poverty and inequality. We aim to bring about development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way.Established in 1959, we are the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, with a strong commitment to achieve measurable results, increased integrity, transparency and accountability. We have an evolving reform agenda that seeks to increase our development impact in the region.

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