Bank BPH provides banking services through some 200 branches throughout Poland. Services include capital market activities, retail and corporate business, securities settlement, and trade finance. It also provides asset management services. Bank customers have free access to a network of more than 3,000 ATMs, including 200 owned by the company. The bank traces its roots to the 1989 creation of two banks, PBK and PBH, which merged in 2001 to create Bank BPH. GE Money Bank S.A., the Polish retail division of General Electric Capital, acquired control of the bank from UniCredit in late 2008. Bank BPH and GE Money Bank S.A. merged in 2010.

Apollo Bancorp is the holding company for Apollo Trust Company, a community bank serving Western Pennsylvania's Kiski Valley, northeast of Pittsburgh. Through about five branches, the bank offers checking, savings, and investment accounts to individuals and local businesses. It also offers trust services. One- to four-family residential mortgages and commercial real estate loans make up most of the bank's loan portfolio. It also offers construction and land development loans, consumer loans, and farm loans, in addition to lending to area municipalities. Apollo Trust Company opened in 1871.

Malaysia's largest bank, Malayan Banking Berhad (better known as Maybank) and its subsidiaries operate some 500 branches, mostly in Malaysia, but also in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and elsewhere throughout Southeast Asia. Its core services consist of deposits, mortgages and other loans, and credit cards to individuals and businesses. Other offerings include investment banking, asset management, online banking, brokerage, insurance, unit trusts and other investments, and corporate finance. Amanah Raya, a trust company controlled by the Malaysian government, owns more than 45% of Maybank.

GE Facto (which also does business as GE Factofrance or Societe Factofrance) keeps businesses from having to factor in the time it takes customers to pay bills. Companies can avoid the typical 30- to 90-day billing cycle by selling their invoices to Factofrance, which then collects the money. Factofrance also provides accounts receivable management and debt recovery. Subsidiaries include Cofacredit and Factobail, which handle export and IT financing, respectively. Part of GE, Factofrance was formed by the 2002 merger of GE Capital Finance and Heller Financial. (The latter firm was founded in 1966 by Walter Heller, the Banque de l'Indochine, and BNP).

VSB Bancorp is the holding company for Victory State Bank, which serves New York City's Staten Island from about five offices. It collects deposits from local residents and businesses, offering standard products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial real estate, business, and construction loans make up almost all of the bank's loan portfolio. Victory State Bank generally does not write residential mortgages. Merton Corn, CEO of the bank from its 1997 founding until his 2007 retirement, owns approximately 10% of VSB.

Lloyds Banking Group plc provides various banking and financial services to personal and corporate customers primarily in the United Kingdom. It operates through four segments: Retail, Wholesale, Wealth and International, and Insurance. The Retail segment provides banking, mortgages, and other financial services to personal customers. Its products include current and savings accounts, personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages. This segment also operates as a general insurance and bancassurance distributor and sells a range of long-term savings, investment, and general insurance products. The Wholesale provides banking and related services for multinational corporates and financial institutions, and small and medium-sized businesses.

Washington Trust Bancorp can utter "Washington" and "trust" in the same breath. The firm owns The Washington Trust Company, one of the oldest banks in Rhode Island. The bank operates nearly 15 branches there, as well as in southeastern Connecticut. It was originally chartered in 1800. The bank offers standard services such as checking, money market, and savings accounts; CDs; and credit cards. Residential mortgages comprise the largest portion of its loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages and other loans collateralized by real estate. The bank also offers wealth management services.

Great American Bancorp, Inc. operates as the savings and loan holding company for First Federal Savings Bank of Champaign-Urbana (the Bank) in Illinois. The Bank provides various retail banking services to individuals, families, and businesses in Champaign County, Illinois and surrounding counties. It engages in generating deposits and originating loans. The Bank offers various deposit products to its customers, including savings, demand deposits, NOW accounts, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts.

The Commerce Bank of Oregon has one branch in Portland that caters to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and professionals. It serves local residents too. The bank offers standard services, including savings accounts and credit cards. Investment products such as certificates of deposit and money market accounts are provided through affiliate Zions Bank and third-party provider Fidelity. Commercial and industrial loans account for a majority of The Commerce Bank of Oregon's loan portfolio.

Fukuoka Financial has more than just a yen to serve the banking needs of Kyushu. The bank operates about 300 branches in southwestern Japan's Kyushu region (including the prefectures of Fukuoka, Jumamoto, and Nagasaki) and a handful of branches in China. Annually the bank makes loans of more than 3 trillion yen (more than $33 billion) to small and midsized companies and loans of more than 1 trillion yen (more than $11 billion) to individuals. The company isn't banking only on banking, though: It also owns 13% of retail chain Iwataya. Bank of Fukuoka bought Kumamoto Family Bank to form Fukuoka Financial in 2007; it then bought Kyushu-Shinwa's Shinwa Bank to create Japan's largest regional banking group.

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