F & M Bank has deep roots in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Founded in 1908, the holding company operates about 10 Farmers & Merchants Bank branches in the northern Virginia counties of Rockingham and Shenandoah. Farmers & Merchants caters to individuals and businesses. It provides typical deposit products, including checking and savings accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Some 40% of its loans are mortgages; it also writes agricultural, business, construction, and consumer loans. The company offers insurance, brokerage, and financial services through TEB Life Insurance and Farmers & Merchants Financial Services.

Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group (TSX, NYSE: BMO) is a highly diversified financial services organization. With total assets of $397 billion as of July 31, 2010, and more than 38,000 employees, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

Banca Popolare di Sondrio has a long history in Italy. The cooperatively owned bank, also referred to as BPS or Popso, has more than 250 branch offices in northern and central portions of the country. It operates in Switzerland through wholly owned subsidiary Banca Popolare di Sondrio (SUISSE). Serving consumers, families, small and large businesses, and public institutions, Banca Popolare di Sondrio offers deposit accounts, consumer and commercial credit and loans, mortgages, leasing, insurance, and securities trading, among other financial services. Founded in 1871, Banca Popolare di Sondrio has been growing by opening new branches.

Arrow Financial has more than one shaft in its quiver. It's the holding company for two banks: Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Company and Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company, which together operate more than 30 branches in five counties in eastern upstate New York. Targeting individuals and area businesses, the banks offer standard deposit products like checking, savings, and money market accounts; CDs; and IRAs. They also provide retirement, trust, and estate planning services and employee benefit plan administration. Residential mortgages make up the largest segment of Arrow Financial's loan portfolio (more than 40%); indirect and installment loans to individuals account for about 30%.

Cadence Financial is the holding company for Cadence Bank, which operates about 20 branches in the Golden Triangle area of eastern Mississippi, plus about 20 additional locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. The community bank offers standard deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, in addition to trust and investment services. It primarily originates real estate mortgages, which account for more than half of its loan portfolio, but also makes agricultural, business, construction, and consumer loans. Cadence Financial canceled plans to be acquired by Trustmark Corporation in 2010. It will instead be acquired by Community Bancorp, a recently formed bank holding company.

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.

St. Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB) is one of Switzerland's largest cantonal banks, or banks backed by regional governments (in this case, St. Galler and Appenzell Ausserrhoden cantons). Customers include individuals, institutions, and retailers. In the cantonal system, more than 20 banks compete for the 30% of market share not hogged by commercial giants Credit Suisse and UBS. In 2006 SGKB entered into an agreement with Luzerner Kantonalbank for the development of IT for both banks. Founded in 1868, SKGB floated as a public company in 2001. Some 60% of the company is owned by the Canton of St. Galler. It acquired Anglo Irish Bank (Suisse) AG, subsidiary of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.

Comm Bancorp is the holding company for the Community Bank and Trust Company, which operates about 15 branches in northeastern Pennsylvania. Targeting individuals and small to midsized local businesses, the bank offers standard deposit services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. Business loans make up the largest portion of the bank's loan portfolio, followed by commercial mortgages and residential mortgages. The bank writes a relatively fewer number of construction and consumer loans. The bank has subsidiaries that offer insurance and asset management, commercial leasing, and title insurance. F.N.B. Corporation is buying Comm Bancorp for some $70 million.

Peoples Bancorp offers banking for the people, by the people, and of the people. The holding company owns Peoples Bank, which has about 50 branch offices in non-urban markets in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Peoples offers traditional retail banking services as well as wealth management, trust, and retirement services through its Peoples Financial Advisors division. Its Peoples Insurance subsidiary sells life, health, and property/casualty coverage. Credit cards and brokerage services are offered through third-party providers. The bank focuses its lending activities on commercial mortgages and business, construction, and residential mortgage loans.

BankUnited was established on May 21, 2009, when a group of investors led by John A. Kanas acquired the assets and most of the liabilities of the former BankUnited, FSB from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The group recapitalized BankUnited with a $900 million investment, making it one of the most well capitalized financial institutions in the country.

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