The Minden Building and Loan Association was chartered by the State of Louisiana in 1910 to service the Minden community and its surrounding areas. The community bank takes great pride in having a local base to better serve all of its customers' loan and deposit needs. In June of 2002, the bank converted its charter to a Mutual Holding Company, in order to provide more and better products and services to our community customers. In 2007, our official name changed to MBL Bank.

Ally Financial wants to be your friend in the financing business. Ally Financial Inc. (formerly GMAC) opted for its friendlier-sounding name in 2010 after it converted to a bank holding company. In addition to owning Ally Bank, it provides auto financing for General Motors (GM) and Chrysler dealerships and their customers around the world. Its Residential Capital (ResCap) subsidiary issues residential mortgages in the US and Canada. Ally Financial also provides financing services for large- and mid-market companies around the world through Ally Commercial Finance (formerly GMAC Commercial Finance). Although GM owns a stake in Ally, the lender was not included in GM's 2009 Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

CommerceFirst Bancorp is the holding company for CommerceFirst Bank, which opened in 2000 and now has five branches in central Maryland. Catering to small to midsized businesses and professional clients, it offers deposit products including checking and savings accounts, NOW and money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The bank mainly uses funds from deposits to write business loans (including Small Business Administration loans) and mortgages. Executive officers and board members of CommerceFirst Bancorp collectively own more than 20% of the company.

The country's largest commercial bank by assets, Bank Mandiri serves consumers and businesses through more than 900 offices and some 2,800 ATMs throughout Indonesia. Bank Mandiri is also Indonesia's largest lender; other products and services include trade finance, Islamic banking, and investment banking through subsidiary Mandiri Sekuritas. AXA Mandiri Financial Services (a joint venture of Bank Mandiri and insurance titan AXA) offers financial advisory services, including wealth planning and insurance. The government controls two-thirds of Bank Mandiri's stock.

CFB Bancshares is the holding company for Citizens First Bank, a community bank with five locations in Wartburg, Harriman, Oak Ridge, Oneida, and Oliver Springs, Tennessee. The bank offers standard deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Residential mortgages make up about half of its loan portfolio

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.

Idaho Bancorp was formed in 2004 to be the holding company for Idaho Banking Company, which serves residents and businesses of Boise and surrounding areas through four branches and a mortgage and construction loan office. The bank offers standard services such as checking accounts, CDs and savings, IRAs, credit cards, commercial loans, consumer loans, and mortgages. Construction loans and residential loans account for about 25% and 15%, respectively. Other real estate loans account for another 40%.

Caixa D'Estalvis | Pensions De Barcelona (in Spanish, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, but better known as La Caixa) strives for ubiquity, providing banking services to consumers and small to midsize businesses through some 5,500 branches and more than 8,100 ATMs; it offers Internet banking service through its Linea Abierta to some 5 million customers. La Caixa also serves business customers through a network of nearly 70 dedicated business centers under the CaixaEmpresa brand. The savings bank reinvests a sizable portion of its profits (some 25%) in programs and projects that provide societal benefit or improve welfare.

First Bancshares is hoping you'll remember it for its banks. Iowa First Bancshares is the holding company for First National Bank of Muscatine (founded in 1870) and First National Bank in Fairfield (founded in 1865 and acquired by Iowa First Bancshares in 1985). The banks, which operate eight branches in the two southeastern Iowa towns for which they're named, offer individuals and businesses checking, savings, money market, and time deposit accounts, as well as other traditional products and services including loans, trust services, debit cards, credit-related insurance, Internet and telephone banking, and brokerage services.

The Bank of Yokohama concentrates its operations in its native Kanagawa prefecture and southern portions of neighboring Tokyo. The bank offers standard retail services such as deposits, housing loans, credit cards, securities brokerage, and investment products and advice. On the commercial side, it provides small and medium-sized commercial financing, including venture capital investment. The bank also has units that offer leasing and factoring. The Bank of Yokohama, which was formed in 1920, operates more than 600 Japanese branches, plus representative offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, and Shanghai. It is opening shared branches in a joint venture with Hamagin Tokai Tokyo Securities.

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