NorthMarq Capital helps investors make their marq in real estate. The firm provides investment banking, brokerage, property management, construction management, and financing services for commercial real estate owners and investors. Operating from more than 30 offices throughout the US, NorthMarq offers a variety of transactions including fixed- and variable-rate mortgage, bridge loans, and mezzanine debt. The company services more than $35 billion worth of loans on behalf of institutional investors. It also manages some 50 million sq. ft. of commercial space. NorthMarq Capital was originally founded in the 1950s as Northland Mortgage. The company is owned by the Pohlad family through Marquette Financial.

The Bank of Iwate, established in 1932, as a key financial institution in Iwate Prefecture, the largest prefecture on Japan's main island of Honshu. The prefecture, which is the Bank's business base, boasts a wide range of activity, from traditional industries to advanced technology. The Bank is committed to offering all manner of products and services with an eye to the new financial age, and is boldly stepping forward together with Iwate Prefecture into the 21st century.

Virginia Commerce Bancorp is the holding company for Virginia Commerce Bank, which has about 30 offices serving metropolitan Washington, DC's northern Virginia suburbs. The bank's customer base includes consumers, non-profit groups, and small to midsized businesses, particularly those that have contracts with the US government. The bank also offers wealth management services such as retirement planning, asset management, and investments such as mutual funds. Virginia Commerce primarily originates real estate loans, including mortgages and construction loans, which account for about 90% of its portfolio.

Santander UK (formerly Alliance & Leicester) offers deposit and lending services throughout the UK. Its largest segment is its traditional savings and home mortgage business, but the company also offers checking accounts, credit cards, and consumer finance, as well as commercial services such as cash management and asset financing. The firm has alliances with such firms as Legal & General and Zurich to provide investment and insurance products. Its approximately 5.5 million retail customers can access the bank through more than 300 branches, 2,500 ATMs, and 14,000 post offices across the UK. Spanish banking giant Santander bought Alliance & Leicester in 2008. It was rebranded Santander UK in 2010.

Banca di Legnano is a midsized bank serving northern Italy in and around Milan. The company offers standard retail and commercial banking services including deposit accounts and consumer and business loans and mortgages from about 100 branch locations. It also also provides asset management, pension planning, and related services. Banca di Legnano was founded in 1887 and is owned by Banca Popolare di Milano, which is in talks to merge with Banco Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna.

UniCredit S.p.A. provides various banking and financial services primarily in central and eastern Europe, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, and Ukraine. Its Retail segment offers financial services to mass market, affluent and small business customers. This segment provides consumer credit, residential mortgages, and asset gathering services. The company’s Corporate & Investment Banking segment offers financing and advisory services that include investment banking products, such as corporate finance and advisory, syndicated loans, leveraged buy-outs, project and commodity finance, real estate financing, and principal investments. This segment also provides cash management and e-banking solutions; and trade finance products and services, including letters of credit, guarantees and documentary credits, and forfeiting, as well as trade management solutions. Its Private banking segment offers advisory services and solutions for private banking. The company’s Asset Management segment provides a range of financial solutions, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and assets administration, as well as portfolios for institutional investors and structured products. UniCredit S.p.A. operates approximately 9800 branches. The company is based in Milan, Italy.

Hawthorn Bancshares keeps a hawk eye on its customers' money. It is the indirect holding company for Hawthorn Bank, which operates some two-dozen branches in central and west-central Missouri. Originally founded in 1932, the bank offers traditional commercial banking services including deposit accounts, CDs, and lending. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial loans, consumer installment loans, and commercial and residential mortgages. The bank also offers trust and brokerage services. Hawthorn Bancshares owns Hawthorn Bank through subsidiary Union State Bancshares.

Fukuoka Financial has more than just a yen to serve the banking needs of Kyushu. The bank operates about 300 branches in southwestern Japan's Kyushu region (including the prefectures of Fukuoka, Jumamoto, and Nagasaki) and a handful of branches in China. Annually the bank makes loans of more than 3 trillion yen (more than $33 billion) to small and midsized companies and loans of more than 1 trillion yen (more than $11 billion) to individuals. The company isn't banking only on banking, though: It also owns 13% of retail chain Iwataya. Bank of Fukuoka bought Kumamoto Family Bank to form Fukuoka Financial in 2007; it then bought Kyushu-Shinwa's Shinwa Bank to create Japan's largest regional banking group.

Ballston Spa Bancorp is the holding company for Ballston Spa National Bank, which serves Saratoga County in New York from about 10 branches. It offers traditional deposit products including checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and CDs. The bank also offers investment products, wealth and estate planning, insurance, and trust services. Residential mortgages account for about two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio; the company also writes commercial mortgages, consumer loans, and business loans. Ballston Spa National Bank was established in 1838.

Middlesex Savings Bank, with assets of nearly $4 billion, 31 branches, and 5 business-lending centers, is one of the largest and strongest banks in Massachusetts. We are also a mutual form of institution, that is, one without stockholders. We cannot be acquired and are firmly committed to remaining independent.

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