The Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group knows debt, mezzanine, and equity financing from A to Z. It's one of the nation's leading real estate intermediaries, providing developers and investors with expertise in land assemblage, debt and equity financing, net lease negotiations, and major commercial property sales. It's also involved in joint venture Ackman-Ziff Chazen Realty Advisors, which arranges equity capital for real estate owners and developers. Ackman-Ziff started as an Ackman family business in 1926. Simon Ziff joined the firm as an analyst in 1988, then became president in 1996. Today, the firm arranges deals from coast to coast and operates offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York.

The banking services group includes Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking (retail trust, banking, real estate, and stock transfer services) and Chuo Mitsui Asset (pension and securities trusts). Chuo Mitsui Asset owns investment trust and private equity managers Chuo Mitsui Asset Management and Chuo Mitsui Capital. The group has units in the US, the UK, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, and China. Chuo Mitsui Trust and Sumitomo Trust & Banking plan to merge, with Chuo Mitsui as the surviving entity. Renamed Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, the combined company will be Japan's largest asset management group.

Abbey International is waiting. A unit of Spanish banking powerhouse Santander, Abbey National International (which does business as Abbey International) serves British expatriates with offshore banking services via telephone and the Internet. Offerings include standard deposit accounts, as well as tax-beneficial interest-bearing products denominated in British sterling, US dollars, and euros. Santander's UK divisions are adopting the parent company's brand.

TrustCo Bank Corp is the holding company for Trustco Bank, which operates in eastern New York, central and western Florida, and parts of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. It has about 130 branches, offering individual and business customers a variety of deposit products and trust services. It primarily originates residential and commercial mortgages, which account for about three-quarters of its loan portfolio; it also writes business loans and home equity lines of credit. Since 2003, TrustCo Bank has nearly doubled its branch network in New York and Florida by opening new locations. It plans to continue opening new branches, albeit not as rapidly.

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.

Morton Community Bank has nearly 30 branches and divisions known collectively as "Your Hometown Community Banks of Central Illinois." Most bear the names of the communities in which they operate. Serving local consumers and businesses, the bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts and ATM, credit, and debit cards. Commercial and residential mortgages account for around two-thirds of its loan portfolio. Morton Community Bank provides financial planning services through its Investment Services division; personal and business insurance are offered through affiliate Winter Insurance. Morton acquired Citizens National Bank in 2009 after it was shut down by regulators.

CMS Bancorp was formed in 2007 to be the holding company for Community Mutual Savings Bank, which serves the northern suburbs of New York City. Operating through about five branches in Westchester County (one of the richest counties in the country), the bank collects deposits from area consumers and small businesses and uses the funds mainly to originate one- to four-family residential mortgages, which account for more than 85% of its loan portfolio. The bank also issues commercial mortgages, consumer loans, and business loans and lines of credit. Deposit products include checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and IRAs. Community Mutual Savings Bank was founded in 1887.

The Golden 1 Credit Union wants to be the 1. One of California's largest financial cooperatives, not to mention one of the largest credit unions in the US, the member-owned organization serves communities in central and northern parts of the state through a network of more than 80 branches; nearly half of them are in and around Sacramento. The Golden 1 has more than 680,000 members who are residents of more than 30 eligible counties or employees of hundreds of select companies or groups. The credit union offers savings, checking, and money market accounts, IRAs, and credit and check cards. It also provides personal and residential real estate loans, as well as investments and insurance.

AgFirst Farm Credit Bank provides funding and financial services to 22 Agricultural Credit Associations (ACAs) in 15 eastern states and Puerto Rico. These associations, operating as Farm Credit and Ag Credit associations, provide real estate and production financing to more than 80,000 farmers, agribusinesses, and rural homeowners. AgFirst reported assets of $30.08 billion as of September 30, 2009. AgFirst also operates a growing Capital Markets unit that arranges and participates in loans for agribusinesses across the nation, and a Correspondent Lending Market department that buys, sells and services rural home and agricultural loans.

CDC Small Business Finance, founded in 1978 by Arthur H. Goodman, is a not-for-profit organization stimulating economic development by serving the financing needs of small businesses in California, Arizona and Nevada. Specifically, CDC offers fixed-rate, low down-payment, commercial real estate loans for the purchase of office and industrial buildings. CDC also offers an array of community loan programs focusing on women, minority and veteran-owned businesses – those small businesses that face the greatest obstacles to securing capital. Additionally, in 2005 CDC created the Direct Capital loan programs, which provide financing through Community Reinvestment Fund to help small businesses, including nonprofits, in qualified areas. In 33 years CDC has provided more than $8 billion in SBA-504 financing and other funding, resulting in more than 100,000 jobs. We partner with over 60 private lending institutions that consistently choose us for our expertise, reliability, experience and extraordinary service.

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