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As one of Portugal's largest banks, CGD(Caixa Geral de Depositos,along with its numerous subsidiaries and affiliates) offers a wide range of products and services in addition to commercial banking, including investment banking, venture capital, asset management, insurance, and credit services. In the retail sector, CGD concentrates on such traditional products as savings accounts, mortgage loans, and credit cards. The bank has more than 800 Portuguese offices, as well as about 370 in other countries (including Cape Verde, East Timor, France, Luxembourg, Macao, Mozambique, South Africa, Spain, the UK, and the US).

OTP Bank provides institutional, commercial, corporate, private, and retail banking in Hungary and beyond. The company and its subsidiaries offer such services as auto financing, real estate, and business loans, as well as investment, asset, and fund management and lending and deposit banking facilities. The company operates a network of about 1,400 banking offices in and around Hungary. Founded in 1949 as The National Savings Bank, OTP was originally a Hungarian state-owned bank; the company was privatized in 1990 and went public in 1995.

One of India's largest banks, Canara Bank (also known as CanBank) has a network of more than 2,700 branches throughout India, in addition to branches in Hong Kong and London. All of Canara Bank's branches including those located in rural areas are computerized, in a country where that is not a given. The modernization of all branches allows the bank to offer its customers networked ATMs, telebanking, internet banking, and debit card services. Canara Bank's lending focus is on agriculture, retail, housing, and infrastructure loans. Other services include asset management and factoring. The financial institution is 73% owned by India's government.

Severn Bancorp is the holding company for Severn Savings Bank, which operates about five bank branches in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The thrift provides traditional retail products, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Severn uses funds from deposits to originate loans and mortgages, primarily residential and commercial mortgages, construction loans, and business loans. The holding company also owns SBI Mortgage, which originates riskier loans than Severn Savings Bank does; it also invests in real estate on its own behalf. Severn is working towards recovery after suffering real estate- and mortgage-related losses in the economic recession.

Capital Bank Corporation is the holding company for Capital Bank, which capitalizes on the bustling Research Triangle area it serves. Founded in 1997, the bank has about 30 offices in central and western North Carolina. It provides a range of consumer and commercial banking services, including savings, checking, and health savings accounts, as well as CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. Commercial real estate loans, made primarily to small and midsized businesses, make up more than 60% of the bank's loan portfolio; residential mortgages are around 20%. The bank also issues business and consumer loans. It offers investments and insurance through unaffiliated third-party provider Capital Investment Group.

Evans National Bank wants to take care of Buffalo's bills. The subsidiary of Evans Bancorp operates about a dozen branches in western New York (including Buffalo). The bank primarily uses funds gathered from deposits to originate commercial and residential real estate loans (more than 70% of its loan portfolio) and to invest in securities. Subsidiaries include ENB Insurance Agency, which sells property/casualty insurance; ENB Associates, offering mutual funds and annuities to bank customers; and Evans National Leasing, which provides financing for business equipment throughout the US. In 2009 Evans Bancorp aquired the assets and single branch of the failed Waterford Village Bank in Clarence, New York.

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.

A. J. Smith Federal is the primary operating subsidiary of holding company AJS Bancorp. The bank serves customers in suburban Chicago from three branches in Midlothian and Orland Park, Illinois. Catering to area businesses and residents, A. J. Smith Federal offers checking and savings accounts, insurance and investments, and loans. One- to four-family residential mortgages make up more than two-thirds of the bank's loan portfolio; multifamily and commercial mortgages and home equity and consumer loans round out its lending activities. Arthur J. Smith founded A. J. Smith Federal in 1892 as a building and loan cooperative; it became a federally chartered savings bank in 1984.

DBS Group is the holding company for DBS Bank, the largest bank in Singapore and a significant presence throughout Southeast Asia. DBS Bank offers personal and private banking in addition to enterprise services to small and midsized companies through some 80 branches in its home country. The company also has around 60 locations in Hong Kong, plus operations in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, and Thailand. In addition, DBS Group owns a 20% stake in the Bank of the Philippine Islands (that country's second-largest bank). Other services include treasury, brokerage, and fund management.

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