WesBanco would like to be "BesBanco" for its customers. The holding company owns WesBanco Bank, which offers banking services through more than 110 branches in West Virginia, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. In addition to traditional services such as deposits and loans, the bank also offers trust, discount brokerage, and investment services, including its proprietary WesMark mutual funds. WesBanco Insurance Services is a multiline insurance provider. Commercial real estate loans account for more than 40% of of WesBanco's loan portfolio, while residential mortgages are about 20%. The company sells most of the new residential mortgages that it originates into the secondary market.

Emporiki Bank of Greece offers traditional financing and banking services, including investment banking, housing loans, asset management, securities portfolio management, leasing, venture capital, and insurance products. Founded in 1907, Emporiki has about 370 branches in Greece, plus nearly 90 in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, London, Frankfurt, and Romania. About a dozen subsidiary companies (Emporiki Bank Group) offer a wide array of financial services -- from real estate development and management to consumer credit, insurance, and vehicle leasing -- to customers both private and corporate. France's #1 bank, Credit Agricole, owns more than 80% of Emporiki.

Capitol Federal Financial operates as the holding company for Capitol Federal Savings Bank, which provides various banking services in Kansas. Capitol Federal Financial offers a range of deposit products, such as savings accounts, money market accounts, interest bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its lending products include consumer loans comprising home equity loans and lines of credit, home improvement loans, auto loans, and loans secured by savings deposits; loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences; and commercial and multi-family real estate loans, as well as construction loans secured by residential or commercial properties. The company principally serves metropolitan areas of Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia, and Salina, as well as a portion of the metropolitan area of greater Kansas City. As of September 30, 2009, it operated 42 branches. Capitol Federal Financial was founded in 1893 and is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas.

Established in 1902, First South Bank is a local community bank located throughout Eastern North Carolina. Over the past 103 years, banking products and services have evolved. However, the Bank's commitment to its community has never wavered. We have always believed it is important to be a significant contributing member of our community. We know that, as a community bank, we have a responsibility to make a positive difference in the place we both live and serve, not because it is good for business, but because it is the right thing to do.

Amegy Bank entered the market with a small team who had big goals. Throughout the next two decades, that team grew into a talented family of bankers whose commitment to common-sense solutions and doing the right thing for customers still remains a priority today.Amegy Bank believes in relationship banking, where customers know their bankers’ names and bankers know their customers’. We look at banking from our customers’ perspective and we make it easy for them to bank with us. Through what we call the “Community Banking Partnership,”they bring solutions to customers by being proactive and providing them access to all parts of the bank in their own geographic areas.

ING Lease Holding provides vendor leasing and general leasing services in about a dozen European nations. It also offers asset-specialized leasing of cars through several ING Car Lease affiliates and through Noord Lease in the Netherlands. Part of the Wholesale Banking group of Dutch financial services giant ING Groep, the company writes leases directly, as well as through brokers, vendors, and ING Bank. ING Lease Holding manages a portfolio of nearly E14 billion. The UK and the Benelux countries are the company's two biggest markets.

Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna (known as BPER) owns or has stakes in more than a dozen banks, providing individuals and businesses with a variety of services, including deposit banking, lending, and bancassurance (life insurance). All together, the banks have more than 1,100 branches. Other BPER subsidiaries and affiliates offer such products and services as asset management, factoring, leasing, and private banking.

Techcombank serves primarily individuals and small to medium businesses. It offers deposit products, loans, leasing, cash management, and other financial services. The company offers insurance through Bao Viet Life. Founded in 1993, Techcombank has more than 130 branches throughout Vietnam -- the second-largest network in the country. It plans to operate 200 locations by 2010. International banking giant HSBC owns 20% of Techcombank; the two banks also have numerous cooperative alliances.

Arrow Financial has more than one shaft in its quiver. It's the holding company for two banks: Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company and Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company, which together operate more than 30 branches in five counties in eastern upstate New York. Targeting individuals and area businesses, the banks offer standard deposit products like checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and IRAs. They also provide retirement, trust, and estate planning services and employee benefit plan administration. Residential mortgages make up the largest segment of Arrow Financial's loan portfolio (more than 40%); indirect and installment loans to individuals account for about 30%.

Marquette National Corporation (MNAT) based in Chicago, Illinois is a diversified bank holding company for Marquette Bank which has 24 branches in Chicago and its suburbs. Marquette National Corporation has total assets of more than $1.8 billion. Serving area consumers and businesses, it provides deposit accounts, residential and commercial mortgages, home equity and apartment loans, investment management, and trust services. Marquette Bank was founded in 1945 by John McCarthy whose son, Paul McCarthy, is now chairman and CEO.

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