Rockville Financial, Inc. is the holding company owns the regional thrift, which serves Connecticut's Hartford, New London, and Tolland counties from 20 branch locations. Rockville Bank offers traditional deposit products and services, including checking, savings, and NOW accounts. One-to-four family residential mortgages account for more than 60% of the bank's lending portfolio, which also includes commercial real estate, business, construction, and consumer loans. Several of the bank's branches are located in supermarkets and operate seven days a week. Mutual holding company Rockville Financial MHC owns 55% of Rockville Financial.

The Rose Corporation has blossomed as a merchant bank specializing in real estate. Rose provides first mortgages and short-term mezzanine lending to developers primarily in Toronto and invests in such properties as senior living centers and resorts. Benefiting from Canada's thriving entertainment industry, subsidiary Toronto Film Studios will build and operate Filmport, a $250 million multistage film lot and media village in Toronto's port area. CEO Sam Reisman split from a family of homebuilders to found Rose (named for his wife) in 1982; he took the firm private in 2003.

Entrepreneurs who want to put a tiger in their customers' tanks, give them the Midas touch, or help them make a run for the border are saying, "Oh, thank heaven for GE Franchise Finance." The General Electric Capital subsidiary provides real estate and other financing for more than 6,000 franchise operators at some 21,000 locations in the US and Canada. The firm finances restaurants, hotels and other hospitality providers, and auto service and parts retailers. It also offers credit for buying equipment or acquiring new or expanding locations.

As one of China's Big Four banks, China Construction Bank (CCB) has historically concentrated on providing medium- and long-term loans to large domestic corporations in the oil and gas, power, telecommunications, and infrastructure industries. As such, corporate banking makes up more than half of revenues. CCB is increasingly lending to small and midsized businesses, foreign multinationals, and consumers (a segment that represents about a fifth of its revenues). The bank operates some 13,600 domestic branches, which offer standard deposit products, credit cards, and home and auto loans. CCB also provides asset management and investment banking services. China's government owns about 58% of CCB.

Finansbank has nearly 450 branches throughout the country offering financial services for both commercial and retail banking consumers. Finansbank also offers a network of ATMs, as well as online banking services. The number of credit cards issued by Finansbank grew from 2.3 million in 2005 to more than 3.5 million in 2008. The rapidly expanding bank, founded in 1987 as a four-branch institution by Hüsnü Özyegin, is controlled by the National Bank of Greece. The Greek bank bought more than 45% of Finansbank's stock in 2006, then raised its stake to more than 77% in 2009.

Suncoast Schools Federal Credit Union was chartered January 31,1934 as Hillsborough County Teachers Credit Union based on assets. It serves public and private school employees, municipal workers, students, and those working for a select group of more than 1,000 employers (and their families) in about 15 western Florida counties. The credit union offers standard services such as checking and savings accounts, residential mortgages, credit cards, and consumer loans, in addition to insurance, investment, trust, and real estate services. Founded in 1934 as Hillsborough County Teachers Credit Union, the not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative has about 50 locations and some 500,000 members.

Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania is the holding company of Royal Bank America, which operates about 15 branches in southeastern Pennsylvania (including Philadelphia and its King of Prussia suburb) and another in New Jersey. Royal Bancshares has other units devoted to equipment leasing (Royal Leasing), commercial finance (Royal Investments America), and lender financing (RAB Capital). The company is selling Royal Asian Bank, which serves Korean-American markets through five branches in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, to a group led by the unit's CEO, Edward Shin.

CBRE | Melody helps commercial real estate owners sing a sweeter tune. A unit of real estate powerhouse CB Richard Ellis, the real estate investment banking and commercial mortgage lending firm offers a variety of debt and equity financing products and related services through more than 35 offices in major cities throughout North America. Loan servicing is provided through GEMSA Loan Services, its joint venture with GE Real Estate. CBRE | Melody offers construction, permanent, mezzanine, and other types of financing for apartment complexes, office buildings, hotels, and industrial and retail properties.

Turk Ekonomi Bankasi Anonim Sirketi offers standard retail and commercial services from about 340 branches (it has about triped its locations since 2005) and more than 120 ATMs in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul. Subsidiaries include TEB Investment, TEB Insurance, and The Economy Bank in the Netherlands. Together, the group provides leasing, factoring, insurance, asset management, and investment brokerage services. BNP Paribas owns 50% of TEB Mali Yatirimlar, which in turn owns some 85% of TEB. BNP Paribas is merging the business of Fortis Bank in Turkey with that of TEB, a move that will nearly double TEB's branch network.

Zions Bancorporation originated as Keystone Insurance and Investment Co., a Utah Corporation, in April 1955. In April 1960, Keystone, together with several individual investors, acquired a 57.5 percent interest in Zions First National Bank from the LDS Church. In 1965, the name of the company was changed to Zions Bancorporation. (However, it operated as Zions Utah Bancorporation from 1966 to 1987.) The first public offering of shares in Zions Bancorporation was made in January 1966. There continued to be some minority shareholders until April 1972, when the company exchanged the remaining minority shares for common shares. Zions Bancorporation's common stock is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol ZION. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ Financial 100 Index.

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