Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited is one of China's biggest banks and one of the largest in the world. ICBC, which went public in 2006 in a record-setting IPO, manages around 17,000 domestic branches and more than 160 overseas branches and offices. The bank's financial services, offered in Chinese renminbi and foreign currencies, include wholesale, retail, and international banking for more than 3 million corporate clients and some 190 million individuals. It oversees about a quarter of the total domestic assets owned by China's commercial banks. The Chinese government controls more than half of ICBC.

Citizens South Banking Corporation operates as the holding company for Citizens South Bank that provides savings bank services to local customers in the United States. The company offers various deposit products, including demand deposits, money market deposits, savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises residential and nonresidential real estate loans, construction loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans, investment securities, and mortgage-backed securities. In addition, the company acts as a broker in the origination of loans secured by one-to-four family dwellings and in the sale of uninsured financial products. As of May 17, 2010, it operated a network of 21 branch offices. Citizens South Banking Corporation was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Gastonia, North Carolina.

DBS Group is the holding company for DBS Bank, the largest bank in Singapore and a significant presence throughout Southeast Asia. DBS Bank offers personal and private banking in addition to enterprise services to small and midsized companies through some 80 branches in its home country. The company also has around 60 locations in Hong Kong, plus operations in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand. In addition, DBS Group owns a 20% stake in the Bank of the Philippine Islands (that country's second-largest bank). Other services include treasury, brokerage, and fund management.

Fulton Financial is simply full of banks. The multibank holding company owns eight community banks, which together operate about 270 branches in rural and suburban areas of eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. Most of its banks maintain a local identity. Their products include checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Commercial loans and mortgages account for about two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio. Home loans are available through its Fulton Mortgage Company subsidiary. Other nonbank units include investment management and trust services provider Fulton Financial Advisors and Fulton Insurance, an agency selling life insurance and related products.

Banco BPI, S.A. is engaged in a wide range of investment banking and commercial banking activities. Investment-related services offered by the bank include corporate finance, equities, treasury and bonds, asset management, private banking, and venture capital. Its commercial business includes banking for individuals, companies, and institutions, and the usual array of lending, leasing and mortgaging, and credit services. Banco BPI serves about 1.5 million customers through some 700 branches across Portugal, as well as about 35 investment centers and various other operations. The company has insurance partnerships in Portugal with Allianz and Cosec.

AMB Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for the American Savings, FSB that offers a range of financial products and services to families and local businesses primarily in northwest Indiana. The company’s deposit products include passbook accounts, demand and NOW accounts, certificate accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises residential real estate, nonresidential real estate, home equity, multi-family, construction, consumer, land, commercial business, home improvement, and vehicle loans. AMB Financial Corp. also offers online banking, debit/ATM cards, automated clearing house, remote deposit capture, accounts receivable financing, and merchant services. In addition, the company provides investment, estate, business, and financial planning services. It operates through three full-service banking offices located in Dyer, Hammond, and Schererville, Indiana. AMB Financial Corp. was founded in 1910 and is based in Munster, Indiana.

Premium Credit can lay claim to being one of the largest insurance premium financiers in the UK simply because it is one of the few such companies. The firm lends money to individuals and small businesses for payments on a range of insurance products such as business insurance, professional indemnity coverage, and motor and household insurance. Premium Credit also handles outsourced collections of recurring annual or monthly payments such as those collected by accountants and lawyers, magazines and newspapers, property managers, and clubs and organizations. Through Holmwood Termtime, a partnership with HSBC, the company collects school fees from parents of students at some 650 schools across the UK.

Raiffeisen Zentralbank has branched in many countries and now operates across Central and Eastern Europe from Albania to the Ukraine. It has more than 3,000 banking branches in the region offering commercial and investment services. Raiffeisen Zentralbank owns about 70% of Raiffeisen International Bank (RIB), through which it provides central services to its regional banks, which, in turn, provide services to local Raiffeisen banks operating more than 3,000 branches in Central and Eastern Europe. The company was founded in 1927 and is owned by its regional banks.

The Eighteenth Bank, Limited,the bank has more than 90 offices in its home prefecture, as well as about a dozen more in the nearby prefectures of Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Yamaguchi; it also has a presence in both Osaka and Tokyo. In addition to offering traditional deposit banking services, the Eighteenth Bank and its subsidiaries are active in such business areas as leasing, credit cards, and economic research.

Tai Fung Bank, also known as Banco Tai Fung, the bank has more than 20 offices throughout the SAR (special administrative region of China) and provides individuals and businesses with deposit products, loans, credit cards, trade financing, and related financial services. Tai Fung Bank subsidiaries are active in such lines of business as investment management and real estate. Tai Fung Bank traces its roots to a money-changing service established in Macao in 1942; it officially became a bank in 1972.

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