Established in 1921, the Michinoku Bank is a regional bank offering financial services in the Aamori Prefecture in Japan. With about 120 branches and eight consolidated subsidiaries, Michinoku Bank offers traditional banking products, as well as real estate management and staffing supply services. With its "family bank" business approach, the company targets individual retail customers, as well as small-to-medium-sized businesses. It has key subsidiaries in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Michinoku Bank was also the first Japanese bank to open a subsidiary in Russia when it launched The Michinoku Bank (Moscow) Ltd. in 1999; it is now selling that operation to Mizuho Financial.

Ceska sporitelna a.s,the savings bank is the largest in the country, with more than 600 branches scattered throughout the Czech Republic; it offers a complete range of financial products and related services. Among its 5.3 million clients are private citizens, small- and medium-sized businesses, municipalities, and corporations. The bank's 14 subsidiaries provide insurance, fund management and real estate and consulting services. Founded in 1825, the company started trading on the public stock exchange in 1991; it has been a member of the Erste Bank Financial Group since 2000, when Erste Bank purchased the company from the Czech National Property Fund.

Laurentian Bank of Canada offers commercial and consumer banking services from more than 150 branches, located mostly in Quebec. Residential mortgages account for about half of the bank's loan portfolio; personal loans are more than a third. Other retail products include checking and savings accounts, mutual funds, and Visa cards. The bank also has some 30 commercial banking centers that serve small to midsized businesses, real estate developers, and agricultural concerns. Subsidiary B2B Trust provides supplies financial products to financial planners, advisors, and brokers.

Park Bancorp, the holding company for Park Federal Savings Bank. The community-oriented bank serves Chicago and Westmont, Illinois, through about five offices. It offers deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Its lending activities focus on residential mortgages (one- to two-family residential mortgages account for nearly 60% of its loan portfolio and multifamily mortgages represent more than 15%). Other loan products include commercial real estate mortgages and land, construction, and consumer loans. As a group, board members and executive officers own more than a third of Park Bancorp.

Great Florida Bank provides a range of consumer and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, and industries in Florida. Its products and services include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing demand deposit accounts, money market deposit accounts, NOW accounts, time deposits, credit cards, cash management, direct deposits, notary services, night depository, cashiers checks, domestic collections, bank drafts, and automated teller services, as well as automated teller machine cards and online banking services.

United Security Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Thomasville, Alabama. United Security Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for First United Security Bank, which provides commercial banking products and services to businesses and individuals. It generates various deposit products, including non-interest bearing demand deposits, savings accounts, NOW accounts, money market demand accounts, and time deposits. United Security Bancshares, Inc. also provides commercial, financial, and agricultural loans; consumer loans, including credit cards and other related credit plans; real estate loans comprising construction loans for commercial and residential development, commercial buildings, and apartment complexes; and other loans secured by real estate, such as one-to-four family dwellings, including mobile homes, loans on land only, multi-family dwellings, non-farm, non-residential real estate, and home equity loans. In addition, it involves in underwriting credit life, and credit accident and health insurance policies related to loans; the purchase and sale of government securities; and the provision of safe deposit box services. As of December 31, 2009, United Security Bancshares operated and served its customers through 19 banking offices located in Brent, Bucksville, Butler, Calera, Centreville, Coffeeville, Columbiana, Fulton, Gilbertown, Grove Hill, Harpersville, Jackson, Thomasville, Tuscaloosa, and Woodstock, Alabama, as well as provided real estate and consumer loans through 22 branch locations in Alabama and Southeast Mississippi.

KB Financial Group, holding company for Kookmin Bank, provides commercial and consumer banking services in South Korea. It offers asset management and life insurance through alliances with Netherlands-based ING Groep. The bank's lending activities mainly entail residential mortgages, home equity loans, consumer loans, and corporate loans. Kookmin Bank has more than 1,200 branches in its home country, where it claims some 26 million customers, or about half of the population of South Korea. The bank provides corporate services such as foreign exchange and securities trading from offices at home and abroad in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Auckland, New Zealand.

LNB Bancorp is the holding company for The Lorain National Bank, which operates more than 20 branches in Ohio's Cuyahoga, Erie, Lorain, and Summit counties. The bank serves local businesses and individuals, offering such deposit products as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. It also offers trust services and credit cards. The bank's lending activities primarily consist of commercial loans (approximately 60% of its portfolio) and real estate mortgages, as well as installment and home equity loans. The Lorain National Bank offers brokerage and investment services to customers through an agreement with Investment Centers of America.

Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Patriot National Bank that provides consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, and professionals in Connecticut and New York. It offers various consumer and commercial deposit accounts, such as checking accounts, interest-bearing NOW accounts, insured money market accounts, time certificates of deposit, savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, and health savings accounts. The company also provides commercial real estate and construction loans to area businesses and developers; real estate loans, including home mortgages, home improvement loans, bridge loans, home equity loans, and lines of credit to individuals; personal loans, such as lines of credit, installment loans, overdraft protection, and credit cards; and commercial loans, including secured and unsecured loans to service companies, real estate developers, manufacturers, restaurants, wholesalers, retailers, and professionals, as well as to small and medium-sized businesses. In addition, it offers Internet banking, bill paying, remote deposit capture, debit card, money order, travelers checks, and automated teller machine services; and solicits and processes mortgage loan applications from consumers on behalf of permanent investors and originates loans for sale. As of March 16, 2010, the company operated 19 full service branches, including 16 branches in Connecticut and 3 branches in New York, as well as operated a loan production office in Stamford, Connecticut. Patriot National Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

First Midwest Bancorp, the holding company for First Midwest Bank. Through about 100 branches, the bank mainly serves suburban Chicago, though its market extends into central and western Illinois and neighboring portions of Iowa and Indiana. Focusing on area small to midsized businesses, it offers deposit products, loans, trust services, wealth management, insurance, and retirement plan services; it has approximately $3.5 billion of client trust and investment assets under management. Commercial real estate loans account for more than half of the company's portfolio; commercial and industrial loans are around a third.

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