GS Financial Corp. operates as the savings and loan holding company for Guaranty Savings Bank. GS Financial Corp. provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers in metropolitan New Orleans area. It offers various transaction and savings deposit products, such as noninterest-bearing demand deposits, NOW and MMDA account deposits, savings deposits, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides secured and unsecured loan products, including one to four family residential, commercial real estate, and construction loans, as well as home equity lines of credit; consumer loans; and commercial loans. It operates six branch offices and a mortgage production office serving southeast corner of Louisiana. GS Financial Corp. was founded in 1937 and is based in Metairie, Louisiana.

Jefferson Bancshares is the holding company for Jefferson Federal Bank, which has about a dozen locations in eastern parts of the Volunteer State. Founded in 1963, the bank serves individuals and businesses in Hamblen, Knox, Sullivan, and Washington counties, offering standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Lending activities primarily consist of commercial real estate loans and one- to four-family residential mortgages, which together account for a majority of the company's loan portfolio. In 2008 Jefferson Bancshares acquired State of Franklin Bancshares, a community bank hurt by the national mortgage crisis.

Wintrust Financial is a midsized financial holding company engaged in personal and commercial banking, wealth management, and specialty lending services in the metropolitan Chicago area and southern Wisconsin, including Milwaukee. It operates about 15 community bank subsidiaries (many bearing the name of the community they serve) with more than 75 branches in all. The banks offers traditional deposit services and emphasize business and commercial real estate loans, which account for about half of the company's loan portfolio. The company provides financing for commercial insurance and ife insurance premiums throughFirst Insurance Funding.

First Place Financial is the holding company for First Place Bank, which serves businesses and consumers through some 45 branch offices in northeastern and central Ohio and southwestern Michigan. It also operates about 20 loan production offices in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Maryland. The bank offers standard services such as deposits, investments, and loans. Commercial loans -- primarily mortgages -- make up about half of the company's loan portfolio; residential mortgages account for about another third. First Place Financial also operates insurance and title insurance agencies and a real estate brokerage.

Financiera Independencia, S.A.B. de C.V. provides microcredit loans to self-employed laborers, contractors, and other entrepreneurs. (Microloans are small -- a few thousand pesos, or a few hundred dollars -- and must be invested into a business venture.) Financiera Independencia also extends unsecured credit to mothers and the unemployed, and it offers federally subsidized home improvement loans. It has more than 150 branches in 105 cities, and since being formed in 1993, has loaned some 3 billion pesos to more than 800,000 people.

Home BancShares, Inc. operates as a holding company for the Centennial Bank that provides various commercial and retail banking, and related financial products and services to businesses, real estate developers, investors, individuals, and municipalities. It offers various deposit products, including checking, savings, and money market accounts; and certificates of deposit. The company also offers commercial real estate, construction and land development, commercial and industrial, residential real estate, agricultural, and consumer loans. In addition, it provides Internet banking and voice response information, cash management, overdraft protection, direct deposit, safe deposit boxes, United States savings bonds, and automatic account transfers services.

First Bancshares is hoping you'll remember it for its banks. Iowa First Bancshares is the holding company for First National Bank of Muscatine (founded in 1870) and First National Bank in Fairfield (founded in 1865 and acquired by Iowa First Bancshares in 1985). The banks, which operate eight branches in the two southeastern Iowa towns for which they're named, offer individuals and businesses checking, savings, money market, and time deposit accounts, as well as other traditional products and services including loans, trust services, debit cards, credit-related insurance, Internet and telephone banking, and brokerage services.

TMB Bank provides commercial banking services to customers in Thailand. Formerly known as the Thai Military Bank, TMB began operations in 1957 and has since broadened its services to include deposits, personal loans, credit cards, life insurance, and currency exchange. Hundreds of TMB Bank branches operate throughout the country alongside currency exchange centers, while the bank also boasts overseas branches in Hong Kong and Vietnam. Thai Military Bank, Thai Danu Bank, and the Industrial Finance Corporation of Finance merged in 2004 to form the latest incarnation of TMB Bank.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., a financial holding company, provides various financial services worldwide. The companys Investment Bank segment provides investment banking products and services, including advising on corporate strategy and structure, capital raising in equity and debt markets, risk management, market-making in cash securities and derivative instruments, and prime brokerage and research. This segment serves corporations, financial institutions, governments, and institutional investors.

HSBC USA, a subsidiary of British banking behemoth HSBC Holdings, operates HSBC Bank USA. With some 375 offices, the bank has one of the largest branch networks in New York State, plus more than 100 additional locations in about a dozen other states and Washington, DC; California, New Jersey, and Florida are its next largest markets. The bank offers personal, commercial, and mortgage banking services, with a loan portfolio dominated by residential mortgages, commercial loans, and credit card loans. HSBC Bank USA's personal financial services segment also provides mutual funds, investments, and insurance.

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