Annapolis Bancorp serves individual and small business customers through about 10 branches in and around the Maryland capital. The bank offers such retail services as checking, savings, and money market accounts; IRAs; and CDs. It also provides private business banking, including cash management and credit products. Its lending activities are composed of commercial mortgages (about 30% of its total loan portfolio), one- to four-family real estate loans (more than 25%), business loans (some 20%), and to a lesser extent, construction and consumer loans.

In the late 1880's and early 1900's several associations were organized to make loans on homes and business property and to accept people's savings. Some of the names of these associations were Home Building and Loan Association, Johnson County Building and Loan Association and Buffalo Building and Loan Association. None of these associations were insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and many were short lived.

Pacific City Financial is the holding company for Pacific City Bank. Established in 2003, the bank caters to Korean-Americans from about a half-dozen locations in Southern California. The bank serves consumers, professionals, and minority-owned small and midsized businesses, offering deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs. Its lending activities mainly consist of commercial real estate and Small Business Administration (SBA) loans. Additionally, the bank offers international trade finance services to small and midsized businesses that have operations overseas. The company called off plans to be acquired by Korean blank-check company North Asia Investment in 2010.

First Mid-Illinois Bancshares is a major supplier of farm credit (including real estate, machinery, and production loans; inventory financing; and lines of credit) in its market area. In addition to agricultural loans, the bank also offers commercial, consumer, and real estate lending. It also provides deposit products such as savings and checking accounts, plus trust and investment services through a partnership with Raymond James . First Mid-Illinois has nearly 40 branches after acquiring about 10 in northern Illinois from First Banks in 2010.

Bank of Scotland (Ireland) brings commercial banking services from the Scottish Highlands to the Emerald Isle. The bank provides such banking services as commercial loans, commercial and asset finance, and investment services. In 2006 it launched a retail banking division, Halifax, with such offerings as mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, and savings products. The bank has more than 40 locations throughout Ireland. Halifax was launched via Bank of Scotland (Ireland)'s purchase of ESB's retail outlets in 2005. In 2009 Bank of Scotland (Ireland) became part of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed by the merger of Lloyds TSB and the bank's former parent, HBOS.

SinoPac is packing away financial services in Asia and on the US west coast. The holding company owns Bank SinoPac, which has about 130 branches in Taiwan. Bank SinoPac was created in 2006 after the merger of a bank by that name and International Bank of Taipei, or IBT. In the US, SinoPac Bancorp owns Far East National Bank, which serves California's Asian-American community through more than a dozen branches. Other holdings include SinoPac Securities, which offers brokerage services, corporate financing, and underwriting. The company's SinoPac Credit Cards unit has issued more than 1.7 million cards. SinoPac Holdings' subsidiaries also have operations in China, Hong Kong, Macao, the UK, and Vietnam.

France's largest bank, Credit Agricole owns a 25% stake each in about 40 regional banks, which in turn own more than half of Credit Agricole. It offers retail and business banking, lending, and deposit services at more than 9,000 locations throughout the country, including those of subsidiary Le Credit Lyonnais (LCL). The company also is involved in investment banking and capital markets (through its Credit Agricole CIB unit), in addition to insurance, leasing, and private banking. Credit Agricole combined its asset management operations with those of rival French bank Society Generale to form Amundi.

The communities served by Community Central Bank Corporation are in the Detroit area -- specifically Mt. Clemens, Grosse Pointe, and Rochester Hills. Founded in 1996, Community Central Bank operates branches that attract consumers, small to midsized businesses, and government entities. Standard services offered include checking, savings, NOW, and money market accounts, and CDs. Commercial real estate loans account for nearly 70% of the company's loan portfolio, followed by residential mortgages (about 20%), business loans, home equity lines, and consumer loans. In 2005 Community Central acquired River Place Financial Corp., a private bank previously owned by the descendants of brewery founder Julius Stroh.

The Royal Bank of Scotland International is the offshore banking branch of leading financial services provider The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Established in Jersey in 1996, the bank offers personal and corporate banking services such as property lending, foreign exchange hedging, online banking, portfolio advisement, commercial mortgages, currency loans, investment management, and other related products. The Royal Bank of Scotland International owns and operates facilities in Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man, plus an affiliated office in Gibraltar.

Headquartered in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $80 billion at September 30, 2010. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. The bank operated 397 banking offices in California, Oregon, Washington and Texas and two international offices, on September 30, 2010.

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