Carrollton Bancorp can baby-sit your money from Babe Ruth's hometown. The institution is the holding company for Carrollton Bank, a commercial bank serving Baltimore and surrounding areas from about a dozen branches. It offers standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and IRAs. Commercial real estate and residential mortgages account for about 45% and 20%, respectively, of the bank's loan portfolio. Bank subsidiary Carrollton Financial Services sells stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and annuities; Carrollton Mortgage Services originates and sells residential mortgages.

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV) provides a variety of financial services, primarily to customers in the canton of Vaud in southwestern Switzerland. With about 70 retail locations, it offers commercial, corporate, and private banking services, as well as wealth management and securities brokerage. The bank is dedicated to the canton's development and in fact does business with some two-thirds of Vaud's small and midsized enterprises. The Vaud government owns more than half of BCV, which was originally founded in 1845.

Knightswood provides financing to companies residing in the agricultural, oil and gas, commercial real estate, and personal financing sectors through the issuance of bonds to investors. Subsidiaries include Opus Cranberries Corporation, Ponderosa Ginseng Farms, and Qwest Energy. Knightswood was established in 1987.

The Southern Banc Company is the holding company for The Southern Bank, which operates about five branches in Etowah, Cherokee, and Marshall counties in northeastern Alabama. Serving both local businesses and consumers, the bank offers standard deposit products, including checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan portfolio is dominated by one-to-four family residential mortgages, business loans, and consumer loans, but Southern Bank also writes nonresidential real estate mortgages and loans secured by savings accounts.

Tower Bancorp is the holding company for Graystone Tower Bank, which has about 50 branches in central and southeastern Pennsylvania and neighboring portions of Maryland. The bank offers standard retail products, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit and debit cards. It uses funds from deposits mainly to write residential and commercial mortgage loans, which account for more than three-quarters of its loan portfolio. Wealth management services are offered through an agreement with UVEST Financial Services, a division of LPL Financial.

KfW Bankengruppe is a state-owned development bank designed to assist developing countries and the German economy. The bank lends to small and midsized enterprises (SMEs) and buys securitized SME loan portfolios from German banks in order to keep that area of lending robust. It also provides funds for housing, infrastructure, environmental protection, and venture capital. Additionally, KfW finances telecommunications, transportation, energy infrastructure, and industrial projects around the world. The bank receives funds from the federal budget as well as through investments in the domestic and international capital markets. The German government owns 80% of KfW; the Lender, or German states, own the rest.

Societe Generale wants to be top brass in the French banking industry. The bank (familiarly known as SocGen) commands a three-pronged campaign, with operations in global investment management (including SG Private Banking and majority-owned online brokerage Boursorama); retail banking and specialized financial services, including finance, leasing, and insurance; and corporate and investment banking, focusing on European capital markets, derivatives, and structured finance. In the US, the company controls asset manager The TCW Group. SocGen has about 3,000 branches in France (including its Credit du Nord division), and some 5,300 locations worldwide.

The Shizuoka Bank is one of Japan's largest regional banks. It has about 190 branches in and around Shizuoka prefecture, a major manufacturing region southwest of Tokyo. The bank specializes in commercial and industrial loans to businesses such as manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers within Shizuoka. Other offerings include deposit accounts, consumer loans, asset management, and investment banking services. Shizuoka Bank also has subsidiaries devoted to leasing, credit cards, mortgages, securities brokerage, and management consulting. It has representative offices and branches in Belgium, China, Singapore, and the US.

FNBH Bancorp is the holding company for First National Bank of Howell, which serves individuals and local businesses through nearly ten branches in Livingston County, Michigan, west of Detroit. The bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, in addition to trust, investment, and wealth management services. Commercial loans, including loans for land development, new home construction, and business leasing, comprise about 85% of the company's loan portfolio. Founded in 1934, the bank has traditionally served rural communities, but has seen its market become increasingly suburban.

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