Sterling Bancorp is the holding company for Sterling National Bank, which operates about a dozen branch locations in and around New York City. The bank offers such standard retail products as checking and savings accounts and CDs. Commercial and industrial loans account for about half of the company's loan portfolio; other offerings include residential mortgages and lease financing. The company also provides a variety of non-traditional banking offerings; its subsidiaries offer factoring (accounts receivable management), outsourced business support services, trust administration, and other services. Sterling National Bank was founded in 1929.

Founded in 1905, Mechanics Bank provides personal banking, business banking, trust and estate services, brokerage and wealth management services through thirty-three offices across Northern California. After four generations, we remain fiercely independent and deeply committed to the bank's founding values of trust, lasting relationships, teamwork, genuine care and pride in what we do.

Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides various banking and financial products and services in Korea. It offers various commercial banking products and services consisting of demand deposits, installment deposits, certificates of deposit, and repurchase instruments; and working capital loans and facilities loans. The company also provides various consumer banking products and services, including deposit products; and lending products, such as general purpose household loans, mortgage loans, and home equity loans. In addition, it offers various private banking services comprising time deposits, demand deposits, savings deposits, installment deposits, and certificates of deposit; and financial and real estate advisory services to high net worth and mass affluent customers. Further, the company provides credit cards; Internet banking; mobile banking; inter-account fund transfer; and balance, transaction, and customer service enquiry services. Additionally, it offers various capital market services, including securities investment and trading, derivatives trading, asset securitization services, investment banking, and securities brokerage services; securities investment and trading services; and derivative products and services. The company also provides asset securitization services, investment banking, securities brokerage, international banking, asset management, and trust management services. In addition, it offers merchant banking, bancassurance, consumer finance, and life insurance products and services. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 1,180 branches and 8,539 ATMs and cash dispensers in Korea. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) is Korea's largest foreign exchange bank, providing trades in approximately 40 global currencies. The consumer-oriented bank also offers loans and deposits, credit cards, insurance, investments, and private banking services. Its corporate banking services include futures trading, lease financing, and lending. KEB has some more than 300 domestic branches, plus more than 30 locations abroad. Founded in 1967 as a government-owned institution, the bank is controlled by US-based Lone Star Funds, which acquired a majority stake in 2003. Lone Star, which had been thwarted in two previous attempts, is selling its interest to another Korean financial institution, Hana Bank.

ABC International Bank (ABCIB) focuses on trade finance and investment between Europe and the Arab world. The bank's offerings include trade and commodity finance, lending to small and midsized businesses, treasury management, and Islamic financial services (including banking and asset management that are compliant with Islamic religious principles). It also finances energy and infrastructure projects in the Middle East and North Africa. A subsidiary of Arab Banking Corporation, ABCIB has branches in Frankfurt, London, Milan, and Paris, with additional support offices in Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK.

First PacTrust Bancorp was founded in 1941 as Rohr Employees Federal Credit Union; a handful of former Rohr executives remain on First PacTrust's board of directors. Executives, directors, and employees of First PacTrust own about a third of the company's stock.First PacTrust Bancorp is the holding company for Pacific Trust Bank, which offers standard deposit and loan services from about 10 branches in Southern California's Riverside and San Diego counties. Mortgages secured by one- to four-family residences account more than half of its loan portfolio; multifamily residential and commercial mortgages and business, construction, consumer, and land loans round out its lending activities.

Brookline Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Brookline Bank, which provides various banking products and services. Brookline Bancorp, Inc. offers various deposit products, such as non-interest-bearing checking accounts and interest-bearing NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market savings accounts, certificate of deposit accounts, and other qualified plan accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises first mortgage loans secured by multi-family, commercial, and one-to-four family residential real estate properties; indirect automobile loans; loans to condominium associations and business entities; and commercial lines of credit, as well as loans to finance equipment used by small businesses. It also offers financing for construction and development projects, home equity and second mortgage loans, and other consumer loans. In addition, it offers finance for coin-operated laundry, dry cleaning, and convenience store equipment and businesses. As of December 31, 2009 it operated 18 full-service banking offices in Brookline, Medford, and adjacent communities in Middlesex County and Norfolk County in Massachusetts. Brookline Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1871 and is based in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Security Finance Corporation of Spartanburg. Founded in 1955, the consumer loan company provides personal loans typically ranging from $100 to $600 (some states, however, allow loan amounts as high as $3,000). Customers can also turn to Security Finance for credit reports and tax preparation services. The company has approximately 800 offices in about 15 states operating mainly under the Security Finance, Sunbelt Credit, and PFS banners. It also has locations operating as Security Financial Services and Longhorn Finance in North Carolina and Texas, respectively.

Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is one of India's largest state-controlled banks and provides banking and financial services throughout the country. Established with a focus on foreign exchange and overseas banking, IOB has some 1,800 domestic branches and about a half-dozen international branches. It provides deposit, lending, mortgage, currency transfer, agri-business consultation, and credit card services. Specialized branches offer services related to such concerns as commercial and industrial credit, industrial finance, and high-tech agriculture.

Community Bank of the Bay is a community bank that was founded in 1996 with offices in Oakland, Danville and San Jose, California. We believe that business starts with an idea; a dream, a vision of what you want to be. Running a business means you need a smart, capable partner in a bank. We believe our approach works best. Outstanding personal service and forward thinking bank professionals who understand business -- because we are entrepreneurs too.To that end, we've created a bank that is going to change the way you look at banks and banking. It's an unprecedented way to look at the customer/banker relationship. It's a bank where outstanding service isn't just a promise. And we know we have one thing in common -- the desire to achieve success.

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