Intesa Sanpaolo is the result of the mega-merger of the former Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI, which joined forces at the beginning of 2007. The combined institution provides retail and commercial banking services through its Banca dei Territori division. The company operates from approximately 6,300 branches throughout Italy, plus more than 1,900 locations in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the Mediterranean basin. Intesa Sanpaolo also performs investment banking, public and infrastructure finance, factoring, and trade financing services. The company's Eurizon Financial Group unit includes life insurer Eurizon Vita, asset manager Eurizon Capital, and financial planner Banca Fideuram.

Apollo Bancorp is the holding company for Apollo Trust Company, a community bank serving Western Pennsylvania's Kiski Valley, northeast of Pittsburgh. Through about five branches, the bank offers checking, savings, and investment accounts to individuals and local businesses. It also offers trust services. One- to four-family residential mortgages and commercial real estate loans make up most of the bank's loan portfolio. It also offers construction and land development loans, consumer loans, and farm loans, in addition to lending to area municipalities. Apollo Trust Company opened in 1871.

TF Financial Corporation company owns Third Federal Savings Bank, which operates about 15 branches in southeastern Pennsylvania's Buck and Philadelphia counties and neighboring Mercer County, New Jersey. The bank offers standard deposit products, including CDs, IRAs, and savings, checking, NOW, and money market accounts. It also provides insurance and investment products and services. The bank's lending activities mainly consist of issuing one- to four-family residential mortgages (around half of the company's loan portfolio), multifamily and commercial real estate loans (about a quarter), and construction, business, and consumer loans.

Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association has participated with pride in the agricultural, commercial and industrial development that has graced Shelby County and shaped the destiny of its residents. At that time the only two services we were allowed to provide were mortgage loans and savings accounts. Through the years, fast paced expansion generated a growing need for creative financing. The Association experienced tremendous growth and saw a need to expand its physical quarters to more appropriately protect its depositor’s funds and valuable documents.

Fentura Financial has its hands full. Fentura Financial is the holding company for Michigan community banks The State Bank, Davison State Bank, and West Michigan Community Bank. From about 20 branch locations, the banks provide commercial and consumer banking services and products, including checking and savings accounts and loans. Commercial loans account for some two-thirds of the bank's combined loan portfolio. The State Bank, Fentura's first subsidiary, traces its origins to 1898.

Credit Agricole Nord de France provides banking services in the north of France as one of the nearly 40 regional banks that make up the Credit Agricole system. Credit Agricole Nord, which is approximately 25%-owned by Credit Agricole, offers a variety of consumer- and business-oriented services, such as savings accounts, loans, mortgages, credit and debit cards, real estate brokerage, and property and auto insurance. The bank is also active in private equity, taking stakes in local entities such as bottled water firm Eaux de Saint Amand and real estate appraiser Ex'Im Expertises, as well as area real estate projects.

The Bank of Italy is the central bank of the Republic of Italy and part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the Eurosystem. It is a public-law institution and pursues aims of general interest in monetary and financial matters: price stability, the primary objective of the Eurosystem under the Treaty establishing the European Community (the EC Treaty); the stability and efficiency of the financial system, thus implementing the principle of the protection of savings embodied in the Constitution (Article 47(1) “The Republic encourages and protects saving in all its forms, it regulates, coordinates and controls the provision of credit”); and the other duties entrusted to it by Italian law.

Bank of South Carolina Corporation is the holding company for The Bank of South Carolina, which was founded in 1987. It operates four branches in and around Charleston. Targeting individuals and small to midsized business customers, the bank offers such standard retail services as checking and savings accounts, credit cards, and money market and NOW accounts. Real estate loans make up more than 70% of the The Bank of South Carolina's loan portfolio, which also includes commercial loans (around 20%) and to a lesser extent, personal loans. President and CEO Hugh Lane and his family control about 12% of the company.

Danske Bank A/S provides various personal finance, corporate banking, and institutional products and services in Denmark and internationally. It also offers various financial services comprising mortgage finance, insurance, leasing, real estate brokerage, and asset management services. The company’s personal finance products and services include eBanking; current accounts, debit cards, and credit cards; consumer loans, car loans, home equity loans, and mortgage loans; investing services; and annuity pensions, capital pensions, unit linked schemes, investment pools, annuities, and group life insurance. Its personal financing solutions also comprise insurance services, such as home and property, life and critical illness, car, accident, travel, and repayment protection; and private banking services, including advisory services for investment management, portfolio management agreements, insurance, pensions, private companies, and trusts and foundations. Danske Bank’s corporate banking services comprise cash management services, liquidity and interest management, collection services, and cross border payments; business systems for online banking; financing services, such as bilateral loans, working capital financing, Capex financing, leasing, debt issues, and export financing; corporate finance for mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, and risk advisory; trade and export finance services, including documentary credits and collections, guarantees, export finance, and correspondent banks. The company’s institutional services include equity trading and research, international payment processing, and custody services. It primarily operates in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, London, Hamburg, Warsaw, and Luxembourg. It operates approximately 734 branches. The company was formerly known as Den Danske Bank and changed its name to Danske Bank A/S in 2001. Danske Bank A/S was founded in 1871 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Community Bank System is right up front about what it is. The holding company owns Community Bank, which operates about 150 branches across nearly 30 counties in upstate New York and five counties in northeastern Pennsylvania, where it operates as First Liberty Bank and Trust. Focusing on small, underserved towns, the bank offers such services as checking and savings, money market, and NOW accounts. The bank's loan portfolio is divided nearly equally among business loans, residential mortgages, and consumer loans. Community Bank System also provides trust services, brokerage services, investment management, insurance products, and employee benefits plan administration.

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