Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is one of India's largest state-controlled banks and provides banking and financial services throughout the country. Established with a focus on foreign exchange and overseas banking, IOB has some 1,800 domestic branches and about a half-dozen international branches. It provides deposit, lending, mortgage, currency transfer, agri-business consultation, and credit card services. Specialized branches offer services related to such concerns as commercial and industrial credit, industrial finance, and high-tech agriculture.

FHLBank Atlanta is a cooperative bank that offers competitively priced financing, community development grants, and other banking services to help member financial institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic development credit to neighborhoods and communities. Established by Congress in 1932 to support mortgage lending, the Federal Home Loan Bank System provides a stable source of funding to federally insured depository institutions. Each FHLBank operates as an independent organization and is governed by a Board of Directors that is elected by member institutions.

The Toronto-Dominion Bank, together with its subsidiaries, provides retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and wholesale banking products and services in North America and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. The Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking segment comprises its Canadian banking and global insurance businesses that serve personal and small business customers. It provides a range of insurance products, such as home and automobile coverage, life and health insurance in Canada and the U.S.; business property and casualty business in the U.S.; and credit protection coverage on lending products. This segment also offers banking solutions through telephone and Internet banking. The Wealth Management segment provides discount brokerage, financial planning, private investment advice, and private client services in Canada; and financial advisory, private banking, and trust and investment management services to the U.S. clients. The U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking segment comprises the retail and commercial banking operations in the United States. It serves through a network of approximately 1,028 branches. The Wholesale Banking segment serves corporate, government, and institutional clients in financial markets worldwide. It provides a range of capital market and investment banking products and services that include underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and executing daily trading and investment needs. As of October 31, 2009, the company operated approximately 2,600 automated banking machines, and a network of 1,116 branches located in Canada. The company was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Regions Financial Corporation, with $133 billion in assets, is a member of the S&P 100 Index and one of the nation's largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, trust, securities brokerage, mortgage and insurance products and services. Regions serves customers in 16 states across the South, Midwest and Texas, and through its subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates approximately 1,800 banking offices and 2,200 ATMs. Its investment and securities brokerage trust and asset management division, Morgan Keegan & Company Inc., provides services from over 300 offices.

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) serves as the central bank for the country. Tracing its roots back to 1939, BOT serves in a variety of central banking functions, including promoting monetary stability and policies, supervising financial institutions, providing banking facilities to the government and financial organizations, managing national reserves, and printing and issuing banknotes. Headquartered in Bangkok, BOT operates three regional offices which manage banking facilities, supervise foreign exchange control, and monitor economic conditions in their respective regional areas. BOT also has international representation in New York and London.

Taiwan Cooperative Bank, Ltd. was founded in 1946 during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan to foster the country's burgeoning cooperative system. Today the bank still provides financing for economic development, particularly for cooperative enterprises and small and middle-market businesses, with a focus on the fishing and farming sectors. It also provides standard banking services such as deposits and financial management to businesses and consumers. TCB has more than 300 branches in its home country, plus six offices in the US, China, Belgium, and Philippines. The Taiwanese government owns nearly 40% of the bank.

ECB Bancorp Enjoys Community Banking. The holding company owns The East Carolina Bank, which serves individuals, small to midsized businesses, and local governments through about 25 branches in eastern North Carolina and the Outer Banks. The bank, which opened in a barbershop in 1920, provides checking, savings, money market, NOW, and individual retirement accounts, plus certificates of deposit. It mainly originates real estate loans (approximately 80% of its loan portfolio), including residential and commercial mortgages and construction and land development loans. The East Carolina Bank also writes commercial, consumer, and construction loans. Members of the Gibbs family own about 15% of ECB Bancorp.

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.

Phoenix Capital Group helps trucking companies rise above their financial concerns about providing transportation. The firm offers equipment financing as well as fuel cards, which are similar to credit cards used to purchase fuel. It also provides freight factoring (company assumes risk for collecting on clients' account receivables). Clients benefit from freight factoring, because they do not need to wait for their customers' payment, which might not take place for a few months. Its fuel cards, accepted at major truck stops, also offer discounts for hotels.

Thomasville Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Thomasville National Bank, which provides commercial banking products and services to customers primarily in Thomas County, Georgia. It accepts a range of deposit products, such as commercial and retail checking accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement and Keogh accounts, regular interest-bearing statement savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. The company offers commercial, financial, and agricultural loans for individual, partnership, or corporate borrowers;

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