Wing Lung Bank, founded in 1933, is among the oldest local Chinese banks in Hong Kong. The bank provides comprehensive banking services, including deposits, loans, foreign exchange, credit cards, Internet banking, and wealth management. Through subsidiaries, the bank also provides hire-purchase and leasing, trustee, futures broking, securities broking services, insurance sales, and underwriting. Wing Lung Bank has about 40 banking offices, primarily in China; it also operates through overseas branches in Los Angeles and the Cayman Islands. China Merchants Bank acquired a majority stake in Wing Lung Bank in 2008 and bought the company's remaining outstanding shares later that year.

Woodforest Financial Group Inc. family of companies includes both Woodforest National Bank and Woodforest Bank. Each bank plays an important role in the continued growth and strength of Woodforest.Woodforest Financial Group purchased Olympic Savings, a State Savings Bank out of Refugio, Texas in April 2007. Olympic soon had a new name, Woodforest Bank, and was converted to a Federal Savings Bank. Woodforest Bank currently has over 160 branches now open. With this new charter, Woodforest Financial Group brings the expertise and innovation of 30 years of banking success to all new Woodforest markets around the country.

First Mid-Illinois Bancshares is a major supplier of farm credit (including real estate, machinery, and production loans; inventory financing; and lines of credit) in its market area. In addition to agricultural loans, the bank also offers commercial, consumer, and real estate lending. It also provides deposit products such as savings and checking accounts, plus trust and investment services through a partnership with Raymond James . First Mid-Illinois has nearly 40 branches after acquiring about 10 in northern Illinois from First Banks in 2010.

F.N.B. Corporation is the holding company for First National Bank of Pennsylvania, which operates about 225 bank branches in Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The company also has more than 50 consumer finance offices in those states and Tennessee, plus a handful of loan production offices in Florida. It operates in four segments, providing community banking, wealth management, insurance, and consumer finance products and services to retail clients and small businesses. It also offers leasing and merchant banking services. F.N.B. plans to expand in northeastern Pennsylvania through the acquisition of Comm Bancorp in a deal worth some $70 million.

ASB Financial Corp. ("ASB" or the "Corporation"), a unitary savings and loan holding company incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio, owns all of the issued and outstanding common shares of American Savings Bank, fsb ("American" or the "Savings Bank"), a federal savings bank. Other than investing excess funds, ASB's activities have been limited primarily to holding the common shares of American.

Heritage Commerce Corp operates as a bank holding company for Heritage Bank of Commerce that provides various commercial and personal banking services to residents and the business/professional community in California. It offers deposit products, including checking accounts, interest-bearing transaction accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, retirement accounts, non-interest-bearing demand accounts, savings accounts, and money market deposit accounts for retail and business banking markets. The company also provides commercial loans for working capital, financing the purchase of equipment, or for other business purposes; real estate term loans, and real estate land and construction loans; consumer loans for the purpose of financing automobiles, various types of consumer goods, and other personal purposes; home equity lines of credit; and small business administration loans. In addition, it offers cashier’s checks, traveler’s checks, bank-by-mail, automated teller machine, night depository, safe deposit boxes, direct deposits, automated payroll, electronic funds transfers, online banking, and other customary banking services. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 10 full service branches in San Jose, Los Gatos, Fremont, Danville, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Mountain View, and Los Altos. It also operated loan production offices in Sacramento, Oakland, and Santa Rosa. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in San Jose, California.

Tennessee Commerce Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Tennessee Commerce Bank that offers various retail and commercial banking services to small to medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, and professionals in the Nashville metropolitan statistical area, Tennessee. It offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market investment accounts, certificates of deposits, and retirement accounts. The company’s loan portfolio comprises consumer installment loans, various mortgage loans, personal lines of credit, home equity loans, credit cards, real estate construction loans, commercial loans, and letters of credit. In addition, it issues VISA credit cards and serves as a merchant depository for cardholder drafts under VISA credit cards; and offers check cards and debit cards, courier services, access to third-party automated teller machines, and electronic banking services. As of December 31, 2009, Tennessee Commerce Bank provided its services from a single location in the Cool Springs commercial area of Franklin, Tennessee, as well as operated three loan production offices in Birmingham, Alabama; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Atlanta, Georgia. Tennessee Commerce Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.

Barclays Bank is the flagship subsidiary of financial services group Barclays PLC. The bank is primarily active in the UK, where it has some 1,700 branches, but also has significant retail and commercial operations in 50 countries throughout Europe and in several African nations, as well as the Middle East. It offers standard retail services such as current accounts, savings and investments, mortgages and other loans, insurance (it owns 59% of bancassurance provider Absa Group), credit cards (the Barclaycard), and online banking. Barclays Bank traces its roots to the late 17th century.

Newport Bancorp provides a big spread of financial services to the tiniest US state. It is the holding company for Newport Federal Savings Bank, which offers traditional deposit services like savings and checking accounts to both consumers and business owners through branches in Newport, Middletown, Wakefield, and Westerly, Rhode Island. The bank's lending portfolio includes auto and other personal loans and lines of credit, as well as real estate-related home equity, construction, commercial mortgage, and one- to four-family residential loans (the bank's largest segment). The bank's roots date back to 1888.

Akbank T.A.S. provides banking services in Turkey through more than 715 branches, almost 2,000 ATMs, and more than 250,000 point-of-sale terminals. Internationally Akbank operates branches in Germany and in Malta; it also has a subsidiary bank in the Netherlands. Akbank, which is Turkey's second-largest publicly traded bank after Is Bankasi, also provides private bank and international trade finance services. Subsidiaries provide non-banking financial, capital-market, and investment services. The Sabanci family and its companies control 55% of Akbank.

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