Great Southern Bank was founded in 1923 with a $5,000 investment, four employees and 936 customers. Today, it has grown to $3.4 billion in total assets, more than 1,000 dedicated associates serving nearly 150,000 households. Headquartered in Springfield, Mo., the Company operates 75 retail banking centers in Missouri, Arkansas. Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Great Southern offers one-stop shopping with a comprehensive line-up of financial services that give customers more choices for their money. Customers can choose from a wide variety of checking accounts, savings accounts and lending options. With the understanding that convenient access to banking services is a top priority, customers can access the bank when, where and how they prefer, whether it’s through a banking center that will have the longest banking hours in town, through an ATM, by telephone or through the Internet.Beyond traditional banking services, customers can also look to Great Southern for help with investment, insurance and travel services through Great Southern Financial Services, Great Southern Insurance and Great Southern Travel. Great Southern’s mission is to build winning relationships with its customers, associates, shareholders and communities. On any given day, we are hard at work helping young families realize the dream of homeownership, helping a business owner expand his or her business, or providing the right product or service to help an individual save for a future goal. We’re also partnering with the community to help make it a better and more prosperous place to live. And, last but not least, we are keeping the interests of our shareholders in mind in every decision we make while also maintaining our commitment to provide a superior long-term return on their investment.

Citizens of the Republic! Citizens Republic Bancorp is the holding company for Citizens Bank, which operates about 220 branches primarily in Michigan, but also in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. In addition to consumer and commercial banking, Citizens Republic Bancorp also offers wealth management, brokerage services, mutual funds, annuities, and trust services. Commercial loans, including real estate, construction, and industrial loans, make up approximately 60% of the company's portfolio; consumer loans represent about 25%. Citizens sold its F&M Bank-Iowa subsidiary to Great Western Bank, a unit of National Australia Bank, in 2010.

Idaho Independent Bank has about a dozen branches located throughout the state. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank provides such traditional products as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. The bank also offers a variety of products and services aimed specifically at business customers, including cash management and working capital loans. Real estate loans make up more than half of the bank's loan portfolio. Idaho Independent Bank also originates business, construction, and consumer loans.

Malaysia's largest bank, Malayan Banking Berhad (better known as Maybank) and its subsidiaries operate some 500 branches, mostly in Malaysia, but also in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and elsewhere throughout Southeast Asia. Its core services consist of deposits, mortgages and other loans, and credit cards to individuals and businesses. Other offerings include investment banking, asset management, online banking, brokerage, insurance, unit trusts and other investments, and corporate finance. Amanah Raya, a trust company controlled by the Malaysian government, owns more than 45% of Maybank.

Bank of America boasts one of the country's most extensive branch networks with more than 5,900 locations covering some 40 states from coast to coast. Its core services include consumer and small business banking, credit cards, and asset management. In early 2009 Bank of America paid some $50 billion in stock for Merrill Lynch, which had been crippled by the global credit crisis. The acquisition of the once-mighty investment bank known as "The Bull," which has an extensive retail brokerage network, beefs up Bank of America's wealth management, investment banking, and international business.

Annapolis Bancorp serves individual and small business customers through about 10 branches in and around the Maryland capital. The bank offers such retail services as checking, savings, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. It also provides private business banking, including cash management and credit products. Its lending activities are composed of commercial mortgages (about 30% of its total loan portfolio), one- to four-family real estate loans (more than 25%), business loans (some 20%), and to a lesser extent, construction and consumer loans.

Svenska Handelsbanken is Swedish for universal banking. The group provides corporate and individual clients with deposit products, loans, credit cards, and other banking services. Subsidiaries operate in several related areas, including life insurance, mortgages, pensions, fund management, and Internet banking. The bank has more than 460 branches in Sweden and some 240 branches in the rest of Scandinavia, the UK, and other countries; it has a presence in countries including Austria, China, Hong Kong, Russia, and the US. Subsidiaries include Handelsbanken Finans corporate financing unit, Handelsbanken Asset Management, and Handelsbanken Liv (asset management and pension products).

American Bank is able to provide the timely, personalized service so often lacking in today's large commercial banks. In addition to outstanding customer service, we offer a variety of home finance and banking services geared to meeting the individual customer's needs. Our mortgage loan programs for new home purchases or construction offer competitive interest rates and terms. Also, we offer highly competitive rates on our federally insured Certificate of Deposit accounts as well as our savings accounts. At American Bank, our customers are our priority. We look forward to serving you.

The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland provides banking and other financial services to small and medium-sized commercial and industrial companies in Ireland and internationally. The company’s products include interest and non-interest bearing current accounts; demand and time deposit accounts; loans to customers, including overdrafts, installment credit and finance lease receivables, business and corporate lending, mortgage loans for house purchases, as well as home improvement and secured personal loans to existing mortgage customers. It also provides international asset financing, leasing, debt factoring, foreign exchange facilities, interest and exchange rate hedging instruments, executor and trustee services, life assurance/pension/investment fund management, fund administration and custodial services, telephone and online banking, and financial advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, and underwriting. As of March 31, 2009, the company operated in Ireland through 248 full time branches and 1,292 ATMs. The Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland was founded in 1783 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

First West Virginia Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Progressive Bank, N.A., which provides various consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, professionals, and governments. The company offers various deposit accounts, including non-interest bearing demand checking accounts, interest bearing checking/negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and Christmas club accounts.

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