Southside Bancshares operates deep in the heart of Texas. It's the holding company for Southside Bank, which serves East Texas through about 35 branches, with a concentration in the cities of Tyler and Longview. About half of its branches are located in supermarkets (including Albertsons and Brookshire stores), and many offer extended hours. The bank provides traditional services such as savings, money market, and checking accounts, CDs, and other deposit products, as well as trust and investment services. Real estate loans make up more than half of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes business, consumer, and municipal loans.

Porter Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Porter Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for PBI Bank that provides commercial and personal banking products and services in Kentucky. The company’s deposit products include checking accounts, savings accounts, term certificate accounts, time deposits, money market deposit accounts, NOW accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises residential mortgage, commercial, consumer, and agriculture loans; and real estate loans, including commercial, construction, residential, and home equity loans. The company also provides drive-through banking facilities, automatic teller machines, night depository, personalized checks, credit cards, debit cards, Internet banking, electronic funds transfers, domestic and foreign wire transfers, travelers’ checks, cash management, vault services, loan and deposit sweep accounts, and lock box services. In addition, Porter Bancorp offers personal trust services, employer retirement plan services, and personal financial and retirement planning services. As of May 20, 2010, it operated 18 full service banking offices in 12 counties in Kentucky.

Union Bank & Trust, part of financial services holding company Farmers & Merchants Investment, operates some 40 branch locations and loan offices throughout Nebraska and in Kansas. The bank offers traditional deposit products and real estate, business, agricultural, and consumer loans in addition to insurance, equipment finance, investment advice, and the Stratus family of mutual funds. Through another Farmers & Merchants affiliate, Nelnet Capital, the bank offers brokerage services. Originally founded in 1917 as Farmer's State Bank, it took on the Union Bank name in 1935 and became Union Bank & Trust in 1959. The company has been controlled by the Dunlap family since 1965.

Singapore bank Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) operates more than 530 branches and offices in 15 countries, including some 410 offices in Indonesia through its PT Bank NISP subsidiary. The company offers traditional banking services for individuals and businesses, as well as financial services such as brokerage and asset management. Subsidiary Great Eastern Holdings, which provides life and property/casualty insurance, is the largest insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia. OCBC Bank was founded in 1912 to serve the Chinese business community of Singapore and other parts of Asia, but now serves the general public.

Republic First Bancorp is the holding company for Republic First Bank (dba Republic Bank), which serves southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey from a dozen branches. The bank targets individuals and small to midsized businesses, offering standard deposit products including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Commercial mortgages account for more than 70% of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes consumer loans, business loans, and residential mortgages. Republic First and Metro Bancorp scrapped plans to merge in 2010 due to regulatory difficulties. Undaunted, the company is still looking to expand in New Jersey and plans to open new branches.

Camden National Corporation is the holding company for Camden National Bank, which was founded in 1875 and once issued its own US currency. With about 40 branches in 10 Maine counties, the bank provides checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Residential mortgages make up more than 40% of its loan portfolio; business loans, including commercial mortgages, make up another 40%; and consumer loans constitute the remainder. Subsidiary Union Trust operates nine branches in the coastal counties of Hancock and Washington, while Acadia Trust provides trust, fiduciary, investment management, and retirement plan administration services and Acadia Financial Consultants offers brokerage and insurance services.

Golub Capital Partners enjoys being caught in the middle. The company provides debt financing to and makes equity investments in established middle-market companies in the US. It allies with corporate owners, management teams, and financial sponsors in transactions such as recapitalizations, buyouts, and growth financing. Golub focuses on the consumer products, business services, defense, manufacturing, media, and restaurant industries, eschewing technology and passive real estate investments. The Golub Capital Partners LLC company underwrites and syndicates loans up to $150 million, provides debt financing up to $75 million, and makes equity investments of up to $25 million. It also buys loans in the secondary market.

First Security was incorporated in 1999 as a Tennessee corporation to serve as a bank holding company, and is regulated and supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. First Security conducts all of its business activities through its wholly-owned subsidiary, FSGBank, National Association, a national banking association regulated and supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. First Security serves the banking and financial needs of the various communities located along the interstate corridors of middle and East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. These interstate communities are primarily served by branches of large regional and national financial institutions headquartered outside of the area. As a result, we believe these markets need, and are best served by, a locally-owned and operated financial institution managed by people in and from the communities served. We offer personalized and flexible banking services to the communities in our market area and are able to react quickly to changes in those communities, in part by maintaining local advisory boards. In Dalton, Georgia, FSGBank operates under the name of Dalton Whitfield Bank; along the Interstate 40 corridor in Tennessee, FSGBank operates under the name of Jackson Bank & Trust. FSGBank provides retail and commercial banking services, trust and investment management, mortgage banking, financial planning, internet banking, and equipment leasing through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kenesaw Leasing and J&S Leasing.

The Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation, Inc. (“Brazos”) is a non-profit service corporation which provides administrative support and management services to a number of independent non-profit corporations each of whom are dedicated to helping students and parents finance the cost of higher education. The Brazos Managed Companies is a term commonly used to describe the independent non-profit companies, collectively, which are managed by Brazos. With the first company founded in 1975, Brazos and the companies it manages have continued forward with the primary purpose of financing higher education. Through the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) to private student loans, the individual companies have historically acquired pools of student loans through the issuance of student loan revenue bonds or bank warehouse facilities. Brazos and the companies it manages have been the key participants in student loans for over 30 years.

Heritage Commerce Corp operates as a bank holding company for Heritage Bank of Commerce that provides various commercial and personal banking services to residents and the business/professional community in California. It offers deposit products, including checking accounts, interest-bearing transaction accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, retirement accounts, non-interest-bearing demand accounts, savings accounts, and money market deposit accounts for retail and business banking markets. The company also provides commercial loans for working capital, financing the purchase of equipment, or for other business purposes; real estate term loans, and real estate land and construction loans; consumer loans for the purpose of financing automobiles, various types of consumer goods, and other personal purposes; home equity lines of credit; and small business administration loans. In addition, it offers cashier’s checks, traveler’s checks, bank-by-mail, automated teller machine, night depository, safe deposit boxes, direct deposits, automated payroll, electronic funds transfers, online banking, and other customary banking services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 10 full service branches in San Jose, Los Gatos, Fremont, Danville, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Mountain View, and Los Altos. It also operated loan production offices in Sacramento, Oakland, and Santa Rosa. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in San Jose, California.

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