MutualFirst Financial is the holding company for MutualFirst Bank, which has more than 30 financial centers and trust offices in northern Indiana and a loan production office in southern Michigan. The bank offers standard products and services such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards. More than 40% of the company's loan portfolio is devoted to residential mortgages. Consumer loans, including auto, boat, RV home equity, and home improvement loans, account for about 25%. Business loans also make up about a quarter of the MutualFirst's loan portfolio.

Merchants Bancorp operates as a bank holding for MBank that provides various banking services for businesses and individuals in Oregon. It generates demand deposits, fixed term money market and other interest-bearing accounts, time deposits, and certificates of deposit products. The company also provides working capital lines or business loans, short-term financing, and mortgage lending, including home improvements and construction loans.

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.

Community Partners Bancorp is the holding company for Two River Community Bank and The Town Bank (a division of Two River). Through more than a dozen total branches located in eastern New Jersey , the two banks offer deposit services like checking and savings accounts, as well as a variety of lending services, to consumers and small to midsized businesses. The banks' combined loan portfolio consists mainly of commercial real estate loans (about 40%), commercial and industrial loans (25%), and construction loans (20%). Consumer and residential loans make up only about 10% of the portfolio. Two River's branches are located in Middletown, while Town Bank's are located in Westfield and Cranford.

Aries Capital is a full-service mortgage banker specializing in structured financing for commercial projects including hotels, office buildings, and apartment buildings. Its offerings include fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, typically ranging from $3 million to $100 million, as well interim funds and smaller multifamily residential loans. Through Aries Real Estate Fund, Aries Capital, LLC provides mezzanine and bridge financing; Urban Development Fund finances projects that will benefit underserved communities. Aries Capital, LLC operates nationwide through offices in Chicago, Denver, Houston, and Phoenix. Aries Capital has funded more than $3 billion in real estate developments in the past decade.

Jeffersonville Bancorp is the holding company for The First National Bank of Jeffersonville. The bank serves businesses and consumers through about 10 locations in southeastern New York's Sullivan County. First National Bank of Jeffersonville offers such standard retail services as demand deposit, savings, and money market accounts; NOW accounts; CDs; and IRAs to fund a variety of loans. Nearly 40% of the bank's loan portfolio consists of residential mortgages, while commercial mortgages account for another 35%. The bank also provides home equity, business, consumer, construction, and agricultural loans.

Wainwright Bank & Trust serves musical and non-musical customers alike from about a dozen branches in the Boston area. Serving individuals, businesses, municipalities, and not-for-profits, the bank is dedicated to progressive causes; it provides financing to organizations involved in affordable housing, preservation of natural resources, diversity programs, and health care for the homeless, elderly, and mentally disabled. It also originates "green loans" -- reduced-rate home equity loans for solar energy installations. Wainwright Bank & Trust a division of Eastern Bank Corporation, a mutually owned Massachusetts lender with some 90 branches.

Laurentian Bank of Canada offers commercial and consumer banking services from more than 150 branches, located mostly in Quebec. Residential mortgages account for about half of the bank's loan portfolio; personal loans are more than a third. Other retail products include checking and savings accounts, mutual funds, and Visa cards. The bank also has some 30 commercial banking centers that serve small to midsized businesses, real estate developers, and agricultural concerns. Subsidiary B2B Trust provides supplies financial products to financial planners, advisors, and brokers.

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.

Monroe Bancorp owns Monroe Bank, which operates about 20 branches in the central part of the state. Founded in 1892, the bank provides standard products such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, and credit cards. Its lending activities consist mainly of real estate loans, including commercial and residential mortgages, construction and home equity loans, and farmland loans. The bank also provides trust, investment advisory, private banking, estate planning, and brokerage services. Old National Bancorp is buying Monroe Bancorp for more than $80 million.

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