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.

Evans National Bank wants to take care of Buffalo's bills. The subsidiary of Evans Bancorp operates about a dozen branches in western New York (including Buffalo). The bank primarily uses funds gathered from deposits to originate commercial and residential real estate loans (more than 70% of its loan portfolio) and to invest in securities. Subsidiaries include ENB Insurance Agency, which sells property/casualty insurance; ENB Associates, offering mutual funds and annuities to bank customers; and Evans National Leasing, which provides financing for business equipment throughout the US. In 2009 Evans Bancorp aquired the assets and single branch of the failed Waterford Village Bank in Clarence, New York.

The Eighteenth Bank, Limited,the bank has more than 90 offices in its home prefecture, as well as about a dozen more in the nearby prefectures of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Yamaguchi; it also has a presence in both Osaka and Tokyo. In addition to offering traditional deposit banking services, the Eighteenth Bank and its subsidiaries are active in such business areas as leasing, credit cards, and economic research.

Birch Financial Inc. commenced business in August 1994 with the primary intent of providing premium financing to the landscape industry. In July 1995, Automatic Installment Services (AIS) was contracted to administer the loans of their clients with financial oversight resting in the hands of Nelson Colvin, President of Birch Financial, Inc. Birch Financial, Inc. operates with a line of credit from First Bank in St. Louis, MO. The company has over $25,000,000 in Premium Financing Loans and $1,200,000 in Equipment Loans. Birch Financial, Inc. is also doing business in Nevada, Arizona and Utah, providing premium financing primarily to landscape contractors. The company is planning to enter the Texas and Florida markets in the near future. Birch Financial, Inc. has a captive market with a familiar database of clients and a known credit history. It has the advantage of working through affiliated companies that guarantee the loan return.

Heartland Financial USA, Inc., through its bank subsidiaries, provides commercial and retail banking services to businesses and individuals. Its deposit products include checking and other demand deposit, negotiable order of withdrawal, savings, money market, individual retirement, and health savings accounts, as well as certificates of deposits and other time deposits. The company’s loans include commercial and industrial, agricultural, real estate mortgage, consumer, and home equity loans, as well as lines of credit. It also offers other products and services, including VISA debit cards, automated teller machines, online banking, safe deposit boxes, and trust services. In addition, the company engages in investment brokerage activities; and offers vehicle, property and casualty, life, and disability insurance, as well as tax-free annuities. Further, it offers trust and investment services for individuals and corporations. Heartland Financial USA, Inc. has strategic alliance with LPL Financial Institution Services to operate independent securities offices at its bank subsidiaries, as well as offers various investment services, such as mutual funds, annuities, retirement products, education savings products, brokerage services, employer sponsored plans, and insurance products. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 61 banking locations in the states of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, and Minnesota. Heartland Financial USA, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa.

The First Bancshares, Inc. operates as the banking holding company for The First, A National Banking Association that provides commercial and retail banking services to small to medium-sized businesses, professional concerns, and individuals in Mississippi. It accepts various deposit products, such as checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, and other time deposits, ranging from daily money market accounts to longer-term certificates of deposit, as well as retirement account services, such as individual retirement accounts. The company provides commercial loans, such as secured and unsecured loans for working capital, business expansion, and purchase of equipment and machinery; consumer loans, which include equity lines of credit and secured and unsecured loans for financing automobiles, home improvements, education, and personal investments; and real estate construction and acquisition loans. It also originates loans to purchase existing or construct new homes, and to refinance existing mortgages. In addition, The First Bancshares, Inc. offers Internet banking services, voice response telephone inquiry services, commercial sweep accounts, cash management services, safe deposit boxes, travelers’ checks, direct deposit of payroll and social security checks, automatic drafts for various accounts, network of automated teller machines, and VISA and MasterCard credit card services. It operates 10 branch offices in Mississippi. The First Bancshares, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

PB Capital doesn't know peanuts about sandwiches, but it can help jell your real estate portfolio. A subsidiary of Deutsche Postbank and a member of the Deutsche Post group, the company specializes in commercial real estate services in North America, providing financing for the construction and acquisition of office, retail, industrial, multifamily rental, and residential condominium properties. Its credit investments division deals in the bond, loan, and credit derivatives markets on behalf of large and middle-market corporate clients. PB Capital, which first opened in New York in 1976, also provides interest rate, currency, and asset/liability management services.

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The banking services group includes Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking (retail trust, banking, real estate, and stock transfer services) and Chuo Mitsui Asset (pension and securities trusts). Chuo Mitsui Asset owns investment trust and private equity managers Chuo Mitsui Asset Management and Chuo Mitsui Capital. The group has units in the US, the UK, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, and China. Chuo Mitsui Trust and Sumitomo Trust & Banking plan to merge, with Chuo Mitsui as the surviving entity. Renamed Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, the combined company will be Japan's largest asset management group.

Mercantile Bank Corporation is the holding company for Mercantile Bank of Michigan (formerly Mercantile Bank of West Michigan), which operates more than five branches in and around Grand Rapids, Holland, and Lansing. (The latter was the community bank's first foray outside the western part of Michigan, prompting the name change in 2005.) The bank targets local consumers and businesses, offering standard deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and health savings accounts. Loans for real estate secured by nonresidential properties make up more than half of the company's loan portfolio; business loans are about a quarter.

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