Cambridge Bancorp is the holding company for Cambridge Trust Company, a community bank serving Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Greater Boston area from about ten locations. It offers standard retail products and services including checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Residential mortgages, including home equity loans, account for more than half of the company's loan portfolio; commercial real estate loans make up approximately one-third. The company also offers commercial, industrial, and consumer loans. Cambridge Trust Company was established in 1892.

VTB Bank offers a smorgasbord of financial services for corporate, financial, and retail clients in Russia, Western Europe, Africa, and Asia. VTB retail services, conducted through VTB 24, include deposit banking, credit and lending services, and money transfers serving individuals and small businesses through a network of some 500 branches in large Russian cities. The company also provides investment banking and services for financial institutions that include foreign exchange trading, Inter-bank lending, and securities trading. The Russian government owns some 85% of VTB, but plans to reduce its stake by about half by 2014.

Fidelity Federal is true to its community. It's the holding company for United Fidelity Bank (aka United Bank), which operates about a half-dozen branches in southern Indiana. In addition to traditional products like checking and savings accounts, CDs, and credit cards, the bank offers investments such as IRAs, heath savings accounts, education savings accounts, and savings bonds. One- to four-family residential mortgages account for the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio, followed by commercial real estate, construction and land development, and business loans. United Bank also offers private banking services.

United Community Banks is the holding company for 27 community banks united in their quest to provide consumer and business banking services in Georgia, western North Carolina, and eastern Tennessee. Operating mainly under the United Community Bank or UCB banners, the banks collectively have more than 100 branches offering deposit products, mortgages, and other services. Residential construction and land development loans account for the largest segment of United Community Banks' loan portfolio (more than 30%); residential mortgages make up about 25%. The company has been growing through acquisitions.

Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) acts as the principal bank to the state of Bavaria and as the central clearing house for the 75 Bavarian sparkassen (savings banks). Also serving corporations, national and local governments, financial institutions, and real estate firms, the bank offers a variety of services, including financing, security underwriting and trading, and risk management. It provides retail and private banking services for individuals through its Internet bank, Deutsche Kreditbank, which also targets infrastructure customers in eastern Europe. BayernLB is recovering after losing billions in the global economic crisis.

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.

NewBridge Bancorp shows a marked preference for "lettuce." Formerly LSB Bancshares, the holding company owns NewBridge Bank (formerly Lexington State Bank and FNB Southeast), which operates about 40 branches and a half-dozen loan production offices in North Carolina and Virginia. The bank offers personal and business banking products and services, including checking and savings accounts and loans. Through a partnership with Raymond James Financial, it offers securities and investment advisory services and insurance products.

Investment bank Banca Profilo offers personalized banking; corporate financing; and asset management, treasury, and consulting services. Clients include insurers, businesses, institutions, and individuals. Founded as a brokerage in 1988, the firm became a bank in 1995 to compete with securities-trading foreign banks entering the Italian market. Banca Profilo operates about 10 offices throughout Italy. In 2007 it bought a majority stake in Société Bancaire Privée of Geneva, expanding its European presence and its private banking business. It also plans to merge with Meliorbanca, expanding its network to nearly two dozen branches throughout Italy.

Founded in 1923 by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Amalgamated Bank serves working-class consumers, trade unions, and businesses through about 15 branches in and around New York City, as well as locations in California, New Jersey, and Washington, DC; it opened its first three branches in Las Vegas in 2008 to serve members of the Culinary Workers Union. Amalgamated Bank is owned by UNITE HERE, a trade union of textile and hospitality trade employees, making it the only union-owned bank in the US. The union was formed in 2004 through the merger of Unite (formerly Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.

People's United Financial is the holding company for People's United Bank (formerly People's Bank). Founded in 1842, the bank has more than 300 locations (including traditional branches, supermarket branches, commercial banking offices, investment and brokerage offices, and equipment leasing offices) in New England and New York. In addition to retail and commercial banking services, the bank offers trust, wealth management, brokerage, and insurance services. Its lending activities mainly consist of commercial mortgages (more than a third of its loan portfolio), commercial and industrial loans, equipment financing, and consumer loans.

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