Lakeland Financial is the holding company for Lake City Bank, which serves area business customers and individuals through more than 40 branches scattered across about a dozen northern Indiana counties. Founded in 1872 in Warsaw, Indiana, the bank offers such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial loans, including agricultural loans and mortgages, make up about 80% of the bank's loan portfolio. Lake City Bank also offers investment products and services such as corporate and personal trust, brokerage, employee benefit plans, and estate planning.

The Daegu Bank, Ltd,founded in 1967, the regional bank has more than 200 branches and serves 3.5 million customers in and around Daegu (also known as Taegu), one of the largest cities in South Korea. Daegu Bank offers retail banking (deposits), bancassurance, credit cards, consumer finance, electronic banking, capital markets, international banking and foreign exchange, risk management, trust deposits, and corporate banking (commercial loans). Samsung Life Insurance owns approximately 7% of the company.

Oriental Financial Group Inc. is a financial holding company operating under U.S. and Puerto Rico banking laws and regulations. Now in its 46th year, Oriental is the fourth largest bank based in Puerto Rico.

Established in 2001, Tokyo Star provides a range of retail banking and corporate finance services. Its retail operations boast about 35 domestic branches and more than 2,300 ATMs throughout the country. Non-recourse loans and mortgages, as well as loans to the health care, environmental, and shipping markets, are among its most popular offerings. Japan-based buyout outfit Advantage Partners bought Tokyo Star Bank, including the nearly 70% stake held by US-based Lone Star Funds, in 2008.

Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) marshals the material means for managing money. The holding company owns flagship subsidiary M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank, M&I Bank, and Southwest Bank, which have more than 275 bank branches in the Midwest, plus some 90 more in Arizona, Florida, and Las Vegas. It is the largest bank in Wisconsin; Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and St. Louis are other key markets. Focusing on retail and commercial banking and wealth management, M&I offers standard services such as deposits, credit cards, mortgages, and business and consumer loans, as well as trust, financial advisory, private banking, mutual funds, and brokerage services. Bank of Montreal is buying M&I for some $4.1 billion.

Emclaire Financial is the holding company for the Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, which operates about a dozen branches in northwestern Pennsylvania. Serving area consumers and businesses, the bank offers standard deposit products and services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. The bank is mainly a real estate lender, with commercial mortgages, residential first mortgages, and home equity loans and lines of credit making up most of its loan portfolio. Emclaire Financial also owns title insurance and real estate settlement services provider Emclaire Settlement Services.

Savings bank Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid (Caja Madrid) provides services from approximately 2,100 banking offices and some 5,000 ATMs throughout Spain. It offers retail, business, and private banking services and has some 7 million individual, small business, corporate, and institutional customers. As part of an alliance with MAPFRE, Caja Madrid products and services are offered through more than 300 MAPFRE offices, as well as through the insurer's agents. Caja Madrid is merging with smaller rival Bancaja. The deal will create the largest savings bank in Spain (overtaking La Caixa).

Banque Audi sal provides a range of private, retail, and commercial banking services to customers in Lebanon and the wider Middle East; it offers private banking services through subsidiaries in Europe and the Americas. Banque Audi has more than 130 retail branches, and also serves as a market maker for Lebanese treasury bills. The bank traces its lineage to 1830, when it began as an outgrowth of the Audi family exchange business in the Lebanese city of Sidon; the firm is still headed by members of the Audi family. Egyptian firm EFG-Hermes holds more than a quarter of Banque Audi.

First Investors Financial Services Group, Inc. through its wholly-owned subsidiaries (“First Investors”) is an independent consumer finance company which originates automobile loans indirectly through relationships with franchised automobile dealers in the United States. The Company’s indirect lending business operates in 28 states through relationships with hundreds of automobile dealerships. First Investors specializes in providing financing solutions to consumers who typically do not have access to traditional financing sources. In addition to its automobile finance operations, the Company also engages in the purchase of portfolios of automobile loans from other lenders and the servicing of pools of loans for affiliated and non-affiliated investors. First Investors was founded in 1988 in Houston, Texas by its current President and Chief Executive Officer, Tommy Moore. In October 1995 the Company completed an initial public offering of common stock and trades on the Nasdaq/OTC market under the symbol “FIFS-OB”. First Investors has over 40,000 customers, approximately $600 million in managed auto receivables.

Calvin B. Taylor Bankshares be the holding company for Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company (aka Taylor Bank), which has about 10 branches in southeastern Maryland and another in Delaware. The bank offers standard commercial and retail services including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and credit cards. It also offers discount securities brokerage through an affiliation with correspondent bank M&T Securities. Real estate loans account for some 90% of the bank's lending portfolio, including residential and commercial mortgages. The bank is named after its founder, who opened a predecessor to Calvin B. Taylor Banking Company in 1890.

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