WSB Holdings was formed in 2008 to be the holding company for The Washington Savings Bank, a thrift with about five branches and a loan production office in Maryland's Baltimore/Washington, DC, corridor. Targeting middle-class consumers and midsized businesses, it offers standard deposit services such as checking savings, money market, and retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. Although the bank has traditionally focused on single-family mortgages and construction loans, it has diversified its loan portfolio amid the troubled housing market; commercial loans now account for the largest portion of its portfolio. Chairman William Harnett owns more than 40% of WSB Holdings.

BCA (officially Bank Central Asia) provides commercial and personal banking services through about 850 branches, more than 6,200 ATMs, and via phone, mobile device or the Web. Its lending activities include home loans and refinancing, apartment and car loans, and loans to corporations and small businesses. The bank also offers insurance, treasury, and international banking services. Through FarIndo Investments (Mauritius) Ltd., members of the Hartono family own more than 50% of the stock of BCA, which was placed under government control in 1998 following a rush on the bank. After restructuring, the government gradually sold off its controlling stake in the bank.

Carolina Trust Bank serves southwestern North Carolina through about a half-dozen locations. It provides a variety of commercial and personal financial services including checking and savings accounts, IRAs, CDs, and credit cards. The bank is mainly a real estate lender, with one- to four-family residential mortgage, commercial real estate, construction, and land development loans comprising most of its portfolio. The company acquired the single-branch Carolina Commerce Bank in 2009. Carolina Trust was founded in 2000.

CVB Financial is into the California Vibe, Baby. The holding company's Citizens Business Bank offers community banking services to primarily small and midsized businesses, but also to consumers through some 50 branches and commercial banking centers in nine central and southern California counties. Its deposit products include checking, money market, and savings accounts, as well as CDs. Commercial real estate loans account for more than half of the bank's loan portfolio, which is rounded out by business, consumer, and construction loans; residential mortgages; dairy and livestock loans; and municipal lease financing.

SBV&T knows the ABCs of banking. The corporation is the holding company for Springs Valley Bank & Trust, a community bank with about five locations in southern Indiana. Serving local individuals and businesses, the bank offers checking and savings accounts, loans, and mortgages, as well as trust and investment services. It is mainly a real estate lender, with residential and commercial mortgages making up most of the company's loan portfolio. Business, consumer, farmland, municipal, and construction and land development loans round out the bank's lending activities.

Monarch Community Bancorp emerged from its chrysalis in 2002 when it was organized to be the holding company for Monarch Community Bank (formerly Branch County Federal Savings and Loan Association). The bank operates more than five branches in southern Michigan's Branch, Calhoun, and Hillsdale counties. Its lending activities mainly consist of one- to four-family residential mortgages (about half of its loan portfolio), commercial mortgages, and home equity loans. To fund its lending, the bank offers such deposit products as checking, savings, and money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. It provides insurance, mutual funds, annuities, and financial planning services through an agreement with Prudential Financial.

Newport Bancorp provides a big spread of financial services to the tiniest US state. It is the holding company for Newport Federal Savings Bank, which offers traditional deposit services like savings and checking accounts to both consumers and business owners through branches in Newport, Middletown, Wakefield, and Westerly, Rhode Island. The bank's lending portfolio includes auto and other personal loans and lines of credit, as well as real estate-related home equity, construction, commercial mortgage, and one- to four-family residential loans (the bank's largest segment). The bank's roots date back to 1888.

Hudson Valley Holding is the parent company of Hudson Valley Bank, which serves individuals, businesses, municipalities, and not-for-profit organizations from more than 35 locations throughout metropolitan New York and lower Connecticut. The bank's focus is on real estate lending, which accounts for more than 80% of the company's loan portfolio. Other products and services include savings, checking, and money market accounts; commercial and industrial loans; consumer loans; credit cards; CDs; and IRAs. Bank subsidiary A.R. Schmeidler & Co. offers money management services.

Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides financial products and services to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals in Korea and internationally. The company’s deposit products include demand, savings, mutual installment, time, and housing subscription installment savings deposits; certificates of deposit; and time deposits, such as tax savings accounts for high net worth customers, savings accounts for household financing, and foreign currency deposits. Its portfolio of loans comprises mortgage and home equity loans; other consumer loans; working capital loans, which include discounted notes and trade financing; and facilities loans to finance the purchase of equipment and construction of manufacturing plants. The company also offers investment banking services, including initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions advisory services, bond issuances, underwriting, capital increase, asset-backed securitizations, issuance of convertible bonds and bonds with warrants, structured financing, and issuance of asset-backed commercial papers, as well as project financings involving infrastructure, real estate, and shipbuilding. In addition, it provides leasing and equipment financing services; and brokerage services, including brokerage of stocks, corporate bonds, futures, and options. Further, the company offers treasury and securities investment, trust account management, credit card services, loan collection and credit reporting, asset management, life and non-life insurance, and regional banking services. As of December 31, 2009, it had a network of 925 branches, 942 cash dispensers, and 6,264 ATMs in Korea. The company also operates a network of 52 branches in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and Singapore. Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Seoul, Korea.

Uwharrie Capital Corp operates as the holding company for the Bank of Stanly that provides retail and commercial banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in North Carolina. It offers various deposit products, including personal and commercial checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. The company also provides various loans, such as commercial loans and various consumer-type loans to individuals, including installment loans, mortgage loans, equity lines of credit, and overdraft checking credit.

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