CIMB Group (formerly Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings Berhad) is the second-largest financial services firm in Malaysia, behind Malaysian Banking Berhad. It is holding company for CIMB Bank, CIMB Investment Bank, and CIMB Islamic, which provide banking and financial services throughout Southeast Asia. The group has about 1,150 locations in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Thailand, where it operates CIMB Bank Niaga. CIMB Group's offerings include corporate and consumer banking, investment banking, Islamic banking, stock brokerage, asset management, and insurance.

Oberbank, which has more than 130 locations, has operations throughout Austria, as well as in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Slovakia. The bank serves individual clients, but caters to business, particularly the industrial sector and small and midsized firms. Oberbank units are involved in such activities as investment, leasing, and real estate lending. A unit of Unicredit Bank Austria owns about one-third of Oberbank, which has minority cross-ownership alliances with Bank für Kärnten und Steiermark (BKS) and Bank für Tirol and Vorarlberg (BTV).

Northern Trust Corporation has been working hard to keep clients' trusts. Flagship subsidiary The Northern Trust Company and other units bearing the Northern Trust name provide banking and trust services to the affluent and to financial institutions and corporations from 85 offices in nearly 20 states and about a dozen countries. Operating in two segments, Corporate and Institutional Services and Personal Financial Services, the corporation is a leading personal trust manager in the US, in addition to specializing in master trust services and catering to corporate pension plans and institutional clients.

Close Brothers Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides specialized financial services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers investment funds, such as multi-manager, property, and other specialist funds and services to pension funds, banks, insurance companies, private client stockbrokers, wealth managers, independent financial advisors, and private investors, as well as private equity investment services. The company also provides wealth management services, including investment management, strategic advice, financial education, banking, trust, pensions, global custody, and corporate and fund administration. In addition, it offers securities trading services, such as execution services covering UK equities, FTSE 100, AIM, European and US listed equities, and fixed interest securities for a range of clients, including stockbrokers, private asset managers, and institutional investment managers. The company’s securities trading services also comprise floor trading of foreign equities and bonds, OTC trading, and structuring of bond instruments and convertible bonds, as well as investment trust advisory services. Further, it provides lending services, such as asset based lending for corporate and personal customers focusing on various asset classes, including insurance premiums, property, domestic and commercial vehicles, specialist plant and machinery, light aircraft, and invoice receivables. Additionally, the company offers deposits and treasury services. Close Brothers Group plc was founded in 1878 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Agricultural Bank of Greece S.A, known as ATEbank, provides retail and commercial financial services to individuals and businesses. Pursuant to its original mission, it also offers credit and other services to the agricultural community. ATEbank has about 960 ATMs and some 480 offices in Greece and nearly 30 branches abroad in places such as Romania and Germany. Subsidiaries offer credit cards, insurance, leasing, and investment products. The Greek government owns some 77% of the company's shares. The bank's charter requires that the state own at least 51% of its shares.

Oxford Bank Corporation is the holding company for Oxford Bank, which has provided residents of eastern Michigan a home for their money for more than 125 years. It has nearly 10 branches, as well a lending center and commercial banking office, in communities north of Detroit. Serving consumers and local businesses, the bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, credit cards, and investments. It also offers real estate, construction, and business loans. Its residential mortgage loan portfolio was pounded by the economic downturn, and as a result the company suffered losses. However, Oxford cut costs and began seeing improvements as the market recovered.

Columbia Banking System, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Columbia State Bank, which provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individuals in the states of Washington and Oregon. It offers checking and saving accounts, certificate of deposit accounts, and consumer and residential lending products; and remote deposit capture, cash management, commercial and industrial lending, real estate and real estate construction lending, equipment finance, and small business services. The company also provides Visa card, investment, international banking, merchant card, online banking, electronic bill pay, and private banking services. As of February 19, 2010, Columbia Banking System had 84 branch offices, including 60 branches in Washington and 24 branches in Oregon. Columbia Banking System, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington.

Home Capital Group is a holding company that operates through its Home Trust Company subsidiary. Home Trust is home to Canadians seeking credit -- both to buy homes and to buy anything else with credit cards. The federally regulated trust offers mortgage lending, retail credit and credit issuing services, as well as deposit services. Home Trust owns and operates offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.

Whitney Holding Corporation was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whitney Holding Corporation operates as the bank holding company for Whitney National Bank that provides community banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. Whitney Holding Corporation offers various deposit products, such as non interest bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing deposits, NOW account, money market, savings, and other time deposits. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial; commercial real estate; construction, land, and land development; residential mortgage; and consumer loans, as well as secured and unsecured loan products, such as revolving credit facilities. The company also offers letters of credit, financial guarantees, and financing for the development of housing. In addition, it provides treasury management services; trust and investment management services to retirement plans; investment brokerage services; and annuity products, as well as personal and business lines of insurance to customers in northwest Florida and the New Orleans metropolitan area. Whitney Holding Corporation offers its services in Texas, southern Louisiana, coastal region of Mississippi, central and south Alabama, and the western panhandle and the Tampa Bay metropolitan area of Florida, as well as in Grand Cayman in the British West Indies.

BankFinancial Corporation was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Burr Ridge, Illinois. BankFinancial Corporation operates as the holding company for BankFinancial, F.S.B., which provides commercial, family, and personal banking services in Illinois. It accepts deposit accounts, such as savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and IRAs and other qualified plan accounts. The company’s loan portfolio consists of investment and business loans, including multi-family, nonresidential real estate, commercial, construction and land loans, and commercial leases, as well as one-to-four family residential mortgage loans comprising home equity loans, lines of credit, and other second mortgage loans. It also provides financial products and services consisting of cash management, funds transfers, bill payment and other online banking transactions, automated teller machines, safe deposit boxes, wealth management, and general insurance agency services. In addition, the company offers investment, financial planning, and other wealth management services; and sells life insurance, fixed annuities, property and casualty insurance, and other insurance products on an agency basis. It provides its products and services through banking offices and an Internet Branch. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 18 full-service banking offices and 3 express branch facilities in Cook, DuPage, Lake, and Will Counties, Illinois.

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