Guaranty Bancorp (formerly Centennial Bank Holdings) knows a thing or two about dollars and cents. After all, it's the holding company for Colorado's Guaranty Bank and Trust. The bank operates about 35 branches, primarily in the metropolitan Denver and North Front Range areas. Guaranty Bank and Trust offers traditional checking, savings, money market, and NOW accounts as well as IRAs. Real estate mortgages and business loans each make up more than one-third of a loan portfolio that also includes construction and other types of consumer and business loans. In 2008 the company merged subsidiary Centennial Bank of the West into Guaranty Bank and Trust and, following suit, changed its own name.

SI Financial Group is the holding company for Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company, a community savings bank serving eastern Connecticut from around 20 locations, including branches within retail stores. In addition to traditional deposit services like checking and savings accounts and CDs, the bank and its subsidiaries offer financial services such as trust services, investment management, retirement planning, and life insurance. Residential and commercial mortgages dominate Savings Institute's lending portfolio, which also includes commercial business and consumer loans. Mutual holding company SI Bancorp owns more than 60% of SI Financial Group.

New England Bancshares is the holding company for New England Bank, a thrift serving central and north-central Connecticut from about 20 branches. It offers standard deposit products and services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. New England Bank primarily originates residential and commercial real estate loans, as well as business, construction, and consumer loans. In 2009 New England Bancshares merged its former Enfield Federal Savings and Valley Banks subsidiaries to create New England Bank. It then acquired the three-branch Apple Valley Bank & Trust.

Sainsbury's Bank is a 50-50 joint venture between UK supermarket operator J Sainsbury and Lloyds Banking Group, Sainsbury's Bank is more than a place to borrow money to buy groceries. Also doing business as Sainsbury Finance, the financial supermarket offers personal loans, MasterCard credit cards, many types of insurance (car, home, life, travel, and pet), and savings and investment accounts. Sainsbury's Bank operates hundreds of banking centers and ATMs inside Sainsbury supermarkets. It also has online operations.

Cheviot Financial happily puts the "buck" in "Buckeye State." It is the holding company for Cheviot Savings Bank, which operates more than five branches in and around Cincinnati. The community-oriented thrift offers traditional products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Its lending activities primarily consist of residential mortgages; construction, consumer, and commercial loans round out its loan book. Cheviot offers investment services through third-party provider Souders Financial. Cheviot Mutual Holding Company owns about 60% of Cheviot Financial, which will nearly double in size through its planned acquisition of First Franklin Corporation.

Swedbank AB offers various financial products and services to private individuals, corporates, organizations, and municipalities. The company’s corporate banking services include cash management, financing, corporate finance, securities, capital market, asset management, and life and pension services; and banks and financial institutions services comprise transaction, custody, correspondent banking, trade finance, and relationship management services. It also offers loan and mortgage, savings and investing, payment, and insurance services for private customers; private banking services, including financial planning, investment advice, individual investment solutions, and ownership and generation shifting services; and single Euro payments area services for paying and receiving electronic payments in Euro. As of March 22, 2010, the company operated 381 branches in Sweden, 226 branches in the Baltic countries, and 156 branches in Ukraine. Swedbank AB offers its services in Sweden, Luxembourg, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the United States, China, and Japan. The company was founded in 1820 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Impact Holdings (UK) plc company provides short-term loans for legal expenses in personal injury lawsuits. Though the loan is made to the individual claimant, funds are paid to the claimant's law firm to cover expenses such as legal advice, expert medical reports, and engineering studies. Subsidiary Impact Bridging Solutions provides bridge loans secured by residential or commercial property. The loans are made to property developers and investors to cover activities such as renovating a property, buying from auction, and development site purchase.

Citizens Bancshares is the holding company for Citizens Trust Bank, which serves the Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia and Birmingham and Eutaw, Alabama communities from about 10 branch offices. The bank provides standard services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, credit cards, financial planning, and investments. Its lending portfolio mainly consists of loans secured by one- to four-family residences, multifamily dwellings, or commercial or industrial real estate. Former chairman and Atlanta-area entrepreneur and philanthropist Herman J. Russell owns about 30% of Citizens Bancshares' stock.

Idaho Independent Bank has about a dozen branches located throughout the state. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank provides such traditional products as checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. The bank also offers a variety of products and services aimed specifically at business customers, including cash management and working capital loans. Real estate loans make up more than half of the bank's loan portfolio. Idaho Independent Bank also originates business, construction, and consumer loans.

Central Bancorp is the holding company for Central Co-operative Bank. Operating as Central Bank, it serves Middlesex County in the northwestern suburbs of Boston through about 10 bank branches and loan centers. The bank's primary business is gathering deposits by offering NOW, money market, checking, and savings accounts; CDs; and retirement savings plans. It primarily uses these funds to originate commercial mortgages (more than half of all loans in the company's portfolio, up from 20% in 2001). Residential mortgages have gone down from around 70% to less than 40% since then. The bank also offers construction, home equity, business, and consumer loans, as well as credit cards.

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