Monroe Bancorp owns Monroe Bank, which operates about 20 branches in the central part of the state. Founded in 1892, the bank provides standard products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and credit cards. Its lending activities consist mainly of real estate loans, including commercial and residential mortgages, construction and home equity loans, and farmland loans. The bank also provides trust, investment advisory, private banking, estate planning, and brokerage services. Old National Bancorp is buying Monroe Bancorp for more than $80 million.

RHB Bank Berhad, a subsidiary of RHB Capital Berhad, offers a wide range of financial services such as personal and corporate loans, savings accounts, and credit cards. RHB Bank Berhad also provides a variety of Islamic products and online banking. The company operates a network of some 200 offices across Malaysia, as well as branches throughout Singapore, Bangkok, and Brunei. It is purchasing an 80% stake in Indonesian financial institution Bank Mestika. RHB Bank Berhad was established through the merging of DCG Bank Berhad and Kwong Yik Berhad in 1997.

Union National Financial jumps for Mount Joy! The holding company owns Union National Community Bank, which serves the communities in and around Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. Through about a dozen branches, the bank provides standard retail products and services including checking accounts, money markets, CDs, and IRAs. It uses funds from deposits largely to write large commercial loans and mortgages, which account for more than half of the bank's loan portfolio. In 2009 the company shut down subsidiary Union National Insurance Agency, which offered insurance-related products to the bank's customers. Donegal Financial Services, holding company of the three-branch Province Bank, plans to buy Union National Financial.

Export Development Canada (EDC) is trying to erase borders in a way. EDC provides a variety of financial services, including lending, insurance, and risk management, to help exporters and investors in Canada to expand their international business. It also performs financial reporting and economic analysis. The agency serves more than 8,000 companies annually, a majority of them small businesses. Created in 1944 as an official export credit agency, EDC is wholly owned by the Canadian government. It operates as a self-sustaining commercial entity, but it is accountable to Canada's Minister of International Trade and the Canadian Parliament.

KAS Bank provides a variety of banking services across Europe, including securities and management information services for institutional investors (pension and investment funds, asset management, insurance companies) and for other banks and brokers. KAS's core activities, which are mostly automated, include custody, clearing, and settlement services. Founded in 1806, KAS has offices in Amsterdam, London, and Germany, and it connects directly to stock exchanges in Dubai, Hong Kong, and the US. The company has been growing its valued-added services, and in 2008 it began offering complete back-office outsourcing services. The next year it bought the fund administration business of Deutsche Postbank.

Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited has more than 550 branches throughout Thailand; almost half are in the Bangkok area. It also operates overseas branches in Hong Kong, Laos, and the Cayman Islands. Serving individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers deposit, lending, insurance, and investment services. For corporations, it performs investment banking and trading services as well. The bank also provides deposit, trade, and investment services to other financial institutions. Bank of Ayudhya was founded in 1945 in Thailand's Ayudhya province. General Electric Capital owns about a third of the bank; Thai NVDR Co., owned by The Stock Exchange of Thailand, holds some 15%.

The Iyo Bank targets customers concentrated in the four prefectures of Shikoku and the Nishi Seto region of Honshu in Japan. The regional bank offers the typical array of retail products, including deposits, leasing services, trusts and pension products, and mergers and acquisitions support services; it even launched its first securities brokerage business arm in March 2005. Its Corporate Consulting Division helps companies galvanize their operations and capital. Established in 1941, the bank owns and operates branch offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and New York.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is an $88.1 billion wholesale bank and one of 12 district banks chartered in 1932 by the U.S. Congress to ensure a secure source of mortgage funds to thrifts, insurance companies, and housing finance institutions. In 1989, the charter was expanded to include commercial banks and credit unions through the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). Today, the FHLB System, which is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is over 8,000 members strong.

Founded in 1905, Mechanics Bank provides personal banking, business banking, trust and estate services, brokerage and wealth management services through thirty-three offices across Northern California. After four generations, we remain fiercely independent and deeply committed to the bank's founding values of trust, lasting relationships, teamwork, genuine care and pride in what we do.

Amegy Bank entered the market with a small team who had big goals. Throughout the next two decades, that team grew into a talented family of bankers whose commitment to common-sense solutions and doing the right thing for customers still remains a priority today.Amegy Bank believes in relationship banking, where customers know their bankers’ names and bankers know their customers’. We look at banking from our customers’ perspective and we make it easy for them to bank with us. Through what we call the “Community Banking Partnership,”they bring solutions to customers by being proactive and providing them access to all parts of the bank in their own geographic areas.

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