Beacon Federal was founded in 1953 as a credit union serving employees of air conditioner manufacturer Carrier Corporation. Beacon Federal Bancorp was created in 2007 to be the holding company for Beacon Federal, a thrift serving selected markets in Massachussetts, New York, Tennessee, and Texas. Beacon Federal Bancorp, Inc. operates about a half-dozen branches that offer standard retail products and loans, primarily residential mortgages, consumer loans, and home equity loans. Subsidiary Beacon Comprehensive Services provides investment products and tax preparation services.

Hingham Institution for Savings is a haven for wayward cash. The company has about 10 branches in Boston's south shore communities, operating in Boston, Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Norwell, Scituate, South Hingham, and South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Founded in 1834, the bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, NOW accounts, IRAs, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio is roughly split between commercial mortgages and residential mortgages (including home equity loans). To a far lesser extent, the bank also originates construction, business, and consumer loans.

Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. operates as a holding company for The Fauquier Bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, and industries in Virginia. Its deposit products include demand deposits, interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing deposits, NOW accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, and direct deposits. The company’s loan portfolio comprises real estate loans, such as one to four family residential loans, construction loans, and commercial real estate loans; consumer loans, including installment loans, credit card loans, and other secured and unsecured credit facilities; and commercial loans comprising loans for working capital, equipment purchases, and various other business purposes. Its loan portfolio also consists of stand-by letters of credit and grants for installments, unsecured and secured personal loans, and residential mortgages and home equity loans, as well as automobile and other types of consumer financing. In addition, Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. offers safe deposit services, credit cards, cash management services, direct deposits, notary services, night depository, travel and gift cards, cashier’s checks, domestic collections, savings bonds, bank drafts, automated teller services, drive-in tellers, Internet banking, telephone banking, and banking by mail services. Further, it provides wealth management services that include investment management, trust, estate settlement, retirement, insurance, brokerage, and title insurance services. Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. has 10 full service branch offices located in the Virginia communities of Warrenton, Catlett, The Plains, Sudley Road-Manassas, Old Town-Manassas, New Baltimore, Bealeton, Bristow, and Haymarket. Fauquier Bankshares, Inc. was founded in 1902 and is based in Warrenton, Virginia.

SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for SouthFirst Bank, which provides general banking services in Alabama. The bank primarily generates deposits and originates various loans. Its deposit products include NOW accounts, money-market accounts, passbook savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. The banks loan portfolio comprises one-to-four family, owner-occupied, and residential mortgage; fixed-rate and adjustable-rate-mortgage residential construction loans; consumer loans, including savings account loans; and loans secured by second mortgage on real estate, such as home improvement and home equity loans.

Blue River Bancshares was founded in 1937 and is based in Shelbyville, Indiana. Blue River Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for Shelby County Bank and Paramount Bank, which provide community banking services for individuals and businesses in south central Indiana. Its deposits products include checking, NOW, savings, and time deposits. The company also offers real estate loans for single-family and multi-family properties and medium and short-term loans for commercial, agricultural, and industrial properties, as well as consumer and commercial lines of credit secured by real estate; commercial loans for the purpose of financing equipment, working capital, expansion, and other general business purposes; consumer loans, including automobile loans and equity lines of credit; and agricultural loans. As of March 31, 2007, it operated three full service branches in Shelbyville, Morristown, and St. Paul, Indiana; a loan production office in Fishers, Indiana; and one office in Lexington, Kentucky.

The Saudi financial services firm,Riyad Bank offers retail and corporate banking services, including credit cards, mutual fund products, electronic trade financing, treasury services, and financing for the oil, gas, and petrochemical sector.It also offers women-only branches for female customers The Riyad Bank network includes around 200 national branches and more than 1,500 automated teller machines, as well as international offices in London, Houston, and Singapore.

Established in 2001, Tokyo Star provides a range of retail banking and corporate finance services. Its retail operations boast about 35 domestic branches and more than 2,300 ATMs throughout the country. Non-recourse loans and mortgages, as well as loans to the health care, environmental, and shipping markets, are among its most popular offerings. Japan-based buyout outfit Advantage Partners bought Tokyo Star Bank, including the nearly 70% stake held by US-based Lone Star Funds, in 2008.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is banking on the continued support of other banks. The bank provides funds for residential mortgages and community development loans to its members, which consist of about 450 financial institutions in New England, including banks, thrifts, credit unions, and insurance companies. The bank also lends to nonmember institutions such as state housing finance agencies, primarily to promote the funding of low to moderate income housing in the region. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is one of 12 regional wholesale banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Its region includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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.

Members fly high with Alliant Credit Union. With about 10 locations near major US airports, Alliant is one of the largest credit unions in the country with some $7 billion in assets and more than 260,000 members. The credit union offers a fleet of products and services, including checking and savings accounts, credit cards, investments, and insurance. Alliant also offers mortgages, as well as home equity, auto, and student loans. Membership is open to all Chicagoland residents and current and retired employees (and families) of United Airlines, Aflac, Google, Kaiser Permanente, and over a hundred other qualifying companies and organizations. Alliant was founded by a group of United Airlines employees in 1935.

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