BNC Bancorp knows the ABCs of the financial world. The firm is the holding company for Bank of North Carolina, which has about 20 locations in both North and South Carolina. The bank offers community-oriented services to local business and retail customers, providing checking, savings, and money market accounts, credit cards, and CDs. Its loan portfolio is mainly composed of residential and commercial mortgages and construction loans. Bank of North Carolina also offers insurance, retirement planning, and other investment products and services. In 2010 BNC Bancorp acquired the failed Beach First National Bank in an FDIC-assisted transaction, expanding Bank of North Carolina's branch network into South Carolina.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is an $88.1 billion wholesale bank and one of 12 district banks chartered in 1932 by the U.S. Congress to ensure a secure source of mortgage funds to thrifts, insurance companies, and housing finance institutions. In 1989, the charter was expanded to include commercial banks and credit unions through the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). Today, the FHLB System, which is regulated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is over 8,000 members strong.

The Ehime Bank provides a range of banking and other financial services to residents of the Ehime Prefecture and to the larger Shikoku area. Services offered include savings, loans, credit card issuing, foreign currency exchange, leasing, and more. The Ehime Bank has more than 90 offices, including two in Osaka and one in Tokyo, and the bank focuses on serving individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses. Minority shareholders in the bank include Japan Trustee Services Bank, Mizuho Corporate, and Aozora.

In 1962, Cathay Bank opened for business with the mission of providing financial services to the growing but underserved Chinese-American community in the greater Los Angeles area, thus becoming the first Chinese-American bank in Southern California. Recognizing that the community it served was part of a more diverse one, Cathay Bank adopted the motto "An Open Door for All." Its rapid expansion was fueled by successive waves of immigration, burgeoning trade between America and Asia, and the economic development of the surrounding community. Since its inception, when it only had $550,000 in capital, Cathay Bank has thrived and is now part of a publicly traded financial institution with stockholder equity of approximately $1.43 billion and total assets of $11.25 billion. Its service network extends from the West Coast to New York and Massachusetts on the Eastern Seaboard, north to the state of Washington, and south to Texas. Overseas, it has a presence in the three important commercial centers in the Asian-Pacific Rim-Taipei, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

Colonial Financial Services, Inc operates as the holding company for Colonial Bank, FSB that provides various banking products and services. It offers various deposit accounts, which include certificates of deposit, savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, club accounts, and individual retirement accounts, as well as commercial checking accounts for businesses and municipalities.

CNB Corporation is the holding company for Citizens National Bank of Cheboygan, which serves individuals and local businesses through more than five branches in the northern reaches of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Serving the counties of Cheboygan, Emmet, and Presque Isle, the bank offers standard fare such as checking, savings, and money market accounts, CDs, and IRAs. CNB Mortgage, a subsidiary of the bank, handles residential mortgage lending activities, which account for approximately half of the company's loan portfolio; commercial mortgages make up most of the remainder. Bank affiliate CNB Financial Services provides insurance and financial planning. Citizens National Bank was founded in 1931.

First Financial Holdings, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Charleston that provides various banking and other related financial services. Its deposit products include demand deposit transaction accounts, time deposit accounts, non-interest-bearing checking accounts, interest-bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposits. The company’s loan portfolio comprises residential real estate mortgage and construction loans, commercial and multifamily real estate mortgage loans, home equity, manufactured housing, and other consumer loans; credit card receivables; and commercial business loans. As of September 30, 2009, it operated 44 full service retail branch sales offices, 18 in-store retail branch sales offices, and 3 limited services branches in Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Hilton Head area of Beaufort, Georgetown, Horry, and Florence Counties, South Carolina; and Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender Counties, North Carolina. First Financial Holdings, Inc., through its other subsidiaries, engages in full-service brokerage activities; property, casualty, life, and health insurance sales; third party administrative services, including services to retirement plans; trust and fiduciary services; reinsurance of private mortgage insurance; and premium finance activities. First Financial Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina.

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.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing.A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets.With 82,504 employees and 1,977 branches in 73 countries (as of September 30, 2010), Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world.

Erste & Steiermarkische Bank (ESB) is banking on the fiduciary habits of native Croatians. The Croatia-based bank caters to individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses through more than 120 branches; services include Internet banking for retail and corporate clients. When the bank first opened in 2002, it had few direct competitors, but today as the competitive landscape has changed, the bank's clientele have had more banking choices and have asserted their loyalty to ESB. The company has a more than 10% market share. Erste Bank owns 555% of Erste & Steiermarkische; Steiermarkische Bank und Sparkassen owns about 40%.

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