Founded in 1889 as a building and loan association, the bank offers traditional retail products such as savings, NOW, checking, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. Real estate loans make up about 85% of the bank's lending activities; it also writes business and consumer loans. Through affiliations with Fenimore Asset Management and Essex Corp., Greene County Bancorp offers investment products. Subsidiary Greene County Commercial Bank is a state-chartered limited purpose commercial bank. This company helps put the "green" in upstate New York. Greene County Bancorp is the holding company for The Bank of Greene County, serving New York's Catskill Mountains region from about a dozen branches.

Northeast Bancorp is the holding company for Northeast Bank, which operates about a dozen branches in western and southern Maine. Founded in 1872, the bank offers standard retail services such as checking and savings accounts, NOW and money market accounts, CDs, and trust services, as well as financial planning and brokerage. Residential mortgages account for about a third of all loans; commercial mortgages and consumer loans each make up about a quarter of all loans. The bank also writes business loans and construction loans. A subsidiary of the bank offers property/casualty insurance coverage. Newly created investment entity FHB Formation plans to acquire a 60% stake in Northeast Bancorp.

First PacTrust Bancorp was founded in 1941 as Rohr Employees Federal Credit Union; a handful of former Rohr executives remain on First PacTrust's board of directors. Executives, directors, and employees of First PacTrust own about a third of the company's stock.First PacTrust Bancorp is the holding company for Pacific Trust Bank, which offers standard deposit and loan services from about 10 branches in Southern California's Riverside and San Diego counties. Mortgages secured by one- to four-family residences account more than half of its loan portfolio; multifamily residential and commercial mortgages and business, construction, consumer, and land loans round out its lending activities.

ING Lease Holding provides vendor leasing and general leasing services in about a dozen European nations. It also offers asset-specialized leasing of cars through several ING Car Lease affiliates and through Noord Lease in the Netherlands. Part of the Wholesale Banking group of Dutch financial services giant ING Groep, the company writes leases directly, as well as through brokers, vendors, and ING Bank. ING Lease Holding manages a portfolio of nearly E14 billion. The UK and the Benelux countries are the company's two biggest markets.

Technology Credit Union is one of the nation’s largest credit unions with nine full service branches in the Silicon Valley. With more than $1.4 billion in assets and still growing, Tech CU is a financial leader in the Silicon Valley.personal loans, business loans and lines of credit, insurance, and investment services to more than 75,000 members in California's Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area. Founded in 1960 by a group of Fairchild Camera and Instrument employees, the credit union has about ten branches. Membership is open to those who live, work, or go to school or church in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties.

Merrill Lynch Bank (Suisse) is a Swiss private bank offering wealth management services such as portfolio advisement, fund management, and financial planning products to the ultra-rich, all with a dash of traditional Swiss banking secrecy and discretion. In addition to Geneva and Zurich, the bank has offices in Dubai, Singapore, Montevideo, and Panama. Merrill Lynch Bank (Suisse) is a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch International Bank Limited and part of the Merrill Lynch International Private Client Group (both are subsidiaries of Merrill Lynch). Banking powerhouse Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch for some $50 billion in early 2009.

Plumas Bancorp is the holding company for Plumas Bank, which serves individuals and businesses in the northeastern corner of California, from Lake Tahoe to the Oregon border. Through more than a dozen branches, the bank offers deposit products such as checking, savings, and retirement accounts and certificates of deposit. Loans secured by real estate account for more than half of Plumas Bank's loan portfolio; combined, commercial and agricultural loans make up about a quarter. Plumas Bancorp writes consumer loans, as well. It also provides access to investment products and services such as financial planning, mutual funds, and annuities.

Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE) offers a range of consumer and business banking services through approximately 25 branches in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It operates in France and other parts of Switzerland, as well. The regional bank offers retail services such as deposit accounts and loans; its corporate banking division specializes in financing for real estate developments and construction. In 2008 BCGE merged subsidiaries Anker Bank and Synchrony Asset Management into the main organization. Together, the canton of Geneva and the city of Geneva control more than three-quarters of BCGE's stock.

Republic Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Republic Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Republic Bank & Trust Company and Republic Bank, which provides banking, tax refund solutions, and mortgage banking services to individuals and businesses in the United States. The company offers a range of deposit products, including demand deposits, money market accounts, brokered and Internet money market accounts, savings deposits, individual retirement accounts, time deposits, and certificates of deposit. It also provides single family residential real estate loans; commercial loans; residential construction real estate loans; and consumer loans, which consists of home improvement and home equity loans, as well as secured and unsecured personal loans. In addition, the company offers private banking services; treasury management services, such as lockbox processing, remote deposit capture, business online banking, account reconciliation, and automated clearing house processing services; Internet banking services and products through its Website, republicbank.com; and trust, title insurance, and other financial institution related products and services. Further, it provides tax refund solutions that include the payment of federal and state tax refunds through third party tax preparers. The company facilitates the payment of these tax refunds through refund anticipation loans, electronic refund checks, and electronic refund deposits. Its mortgage banking activities comprise origination and sale of loans in the secondary market, and the servicing of loans for others. As of December 31, 2009, the company had 44 banking centers, including 35 located in Kentucky; 5 located in metropolitan Tampa, Florida; 3 located in southern Indiana; and 1 located in metropolitan Cincinnati, Ohio.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is all about the euro. Established in 1999, ECB and the national central banks of the 16 European Union (EU) member states that use the euro as their primary currency make up the Eurosystem, whose foremost task is to maintain euro price stability. ECB is also responsible for setting the monetary policy of the EU (with the objective of sustained employment and non-inflationary growth), ensuring the smooth operation of payment systems, and managing the foreign reserves of member countries. Its revenue is derived from interest on investments in foreign-reserve assets, money-market instruments, and securities, as well as from the allocation of euro banknotes in the EU.

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