Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial services, including banking, securities, and trust and asset management services in Japan and internationally. The company offers commercial banking services, foreign exchange transaction services, advisory services, capital markets financing services, syndicated loan services, and structured finance services.

KBC Group is one of Belgium's largest financial services firms. The company operates more than 850 bank branches in Belgium and another 1,300 in Central and Eastern Europe. It has other operations in Western Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia. KBC caters to individuals, small and midsized businesses, and private banking clients. It also offers insurance, and asset management. The bank is organized into four primary business units: Belgium; Central and Eastern Europe and Russia; Merchant Banking; and European Private Banking. In 2009 KBC received its third government bailout upon reporting losses related to toxic investments.

The Bank of Iwate, established in 1932, as a key financial institution in Iwate Prefecture, the largest prefecture on Japan's main island of Honshu. The prefecture, which is the Bank's business base, boasts a wide range of activity, from traditional industries to advanced technology. The Bank is committed to offering all manner of products and services with an eye to the new financial age, and is boldly stepping forward together with Iwate Prefecture into the 21st century.

West Suburban Bank has offered a level of service and responsiveness that the mega-banks, despite their posturing, can never hope to attain. Our employees, from our tellers to our key decision makers, live in the communities we serve, so we understand the needs of our communities and our customers. And, because decisions are made locally, not at some far removed corporate headquarters, we can react quickly when those needs change.

Alliance Financial Corporation is the holding company for Alliance Bank, which operates about 30 branches in central New York. Targeting individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers such deposit products as checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Its loan and lease portfolio mainly contains residential mortgages (about 30%), commercial loans (nearly 25%), and indirect auto loans (around 20%). The company provides commercial equipment leasing in more than 30 states through its Alliance Leasing subsidiary. Alliance Financial also operates a trust department that manages some $1 billion worth of investment assets.

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk(BRI) focuses on lending and banking services for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through its 5000 office branches and 600 ATMs; it also has agency offices in Hong Kong and New York. One of Indonesia's top three lenders, BRI offers traditional commercial banking products and services. The company is a pioneer in the field of micro loans, or small loans to the very poor designed to encourage entrepreneurship. It keeps its small and midsized business loan levels at about 80% of its total lending portfolio. Indonesia's government owns 60% of the company.

Bank Leumi USA, operating in the U.S. for more than fifty years, is an FDIC-insured, full-service commercial bank that provides financial services to middle- to upper-middle market firms, and international businesses through offices in New York, Illinois, California, Florida, and an offshore office in the Cayman Islands.

State Bank of Countryside (SBC) was founded by a group of local businessmen who saw a need for a community-focused, local bank. They implemented their idea of high-quality, personalized service in a warm, inviting atmosphere by opening State Bank of Countryside in 1975. The first office was made up of a few desks in a small, cozy storefront location—our focused growth and vision over the past three decades have moved us a long way from that humble beginning.

First Place Financial is the holding company for First Place Bank, which serves businesses and consumers through some 45 branch offices in northeastern and central Ohio and southwestern Michigan. It also operates about 20 loan production offices in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Maryland. The bank offers standard services such as deposits, investments, and loans. Commercial loans -- primarily mortgages -- make up about half of the company's loan portfolio; residential mortgages account for about another third. First Place Financial also operates insurance and title insurance agencies and a real estate brokerage.

IXE Grupo Financiero has mucho places to stash your dinero. IXE is a financial group whose main subsidiary, Banco Ixe, has more than 100 branches across Mexico. The holding company also owns brokerage firms Ixe Casa de Bolsa and Ixe Securities, mutual fund manager Ixe Fondos, investment advisors IPATI, and pension fund manager Ixe Afore. IXE controls a majority interest in mortgage lender Fincasa Hipotecaria (Deutsche Bank owns the remaining 49%) and auto financing company Ixe Automotriz, which is comprised of Ixe Fleet and Ixe Equipamiento. New York-based private equity firm Brysam Global Partners bought 28% of IXE Grupo Financiero in 2007 for $228 million.

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