Easton Bancorp, that is. Easton Bancorp is the holding company for Easton Bank & Trust, which serves Talbot and Caroline counties on Maryland's eastern shore. From about a half dozen offices, the bank provides standard retail products and services, including checking and savings accounts, IRAs, and credit cards to local businesses and individuals. It uses funds from deposits to write mostly commercial and real estate loans; other offerings include consumer loans and agricultural loans. Easton Bank & Trust also operates under the names Denton Bank & Trust and Oxford Bank & Trust. Easton Bancorp is taking itself private.

Emporiki Bank of Greece offers traditional financing and banking services, including investment banking, housing loans, asset management, securities portfolio management, leasing, venture capital, and insurance products. Founded in 1907, Emporiki has about 370 branches in Greece, plus nearly 90 in Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, London, Frankfurt, and Romania. About a dozen subsidiary companies (Emporiki Bank Group) offer a wide array of financial services -- from real estate development and management to consumer credit, insurance, and vehicle leasing -- to customers both private and corporate. France's #1 bank, Credit Agricole, owns more than 80% of Emporiki.

BNCCORP is the holding company for BNC National Bank, which has about 20 branches in Arizona, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Serving individuals and small and midsized businesses, the bank offers deposit accounts, credit cards, and wealth management services. It also has residential mortgage banking operations in Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. Real estate loans account for nearly half of the company's portfolioThe Company offers financial products and services to meet the financial needs of its current customers, and potential customers, in the markets it serves.

Deere & Company, founded in 1837 (collectively called John Deere), has grown from a one-man blacksmith shop into a corporation that today does business around the world and employs more than 50,000 people. Deere Credit Services, Inc. continues to be guided, as it has been since its beginning, by the core values exhibited by its founder: integrity, quality, commitment and innovation.

First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Federal Bank, which provides various financial products to individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses in north central and northwest Arkansas. First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc. offers a range of retail and business deposit accounts, including noninterest bearing and interest bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposits, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises residential real estate, consumer, construction, lines of credit, commercial real estate, and commercial non-real estate loans. In addition, First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc. offers investment products; automated teller machines; telephone banking services; Internet banking services, including account access, bill payment, e-statements, and online loan applications; Bounce Protection overdraft services; debit cards; and safe deposit boxes. It operates 19 full service branch offices in Benton, Marion, Washington, Carroll, Baxter, and Boone counties. First Federal Bancshares of Arkansas, Inc. was founded in 1934 and is based in Harrison, Arkansas.

Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited has more than 550 branches throughout Thailand; almost half are in the Bangkok area. It also operates overseas branches in Hong Kong, Laos, and the Cayman Islands. Serving individuals and small to midsized businesses, the bank offers deposit, lending, insurance, and investment services. For corporations, it performs investment banking and trading services as well. The bank also provides deposit, trade, and investment services to other financial institutions. Bank of Ayudhya was founded in 1945 in Thailand's Ayudhya province. General Electric Capital owns about a third of the bank; Thai NVDR Co., owned by The Stock Exchange of Thailand, holds some 15%.

First Federal Community Bank of Bucyrus was chartered in 1888 as Bucyrus Loan & Building Company. Business was initially conducted from the law offices of D.W. Locke, located in the current FirstMerit Bank building on the square in downtown Bucyrus. Bucyrus Loan & Building Co. soon moved to the rear of the First National Bank building, located in the 100 block of West Rensselaer Street. That office was only open one hour per week, with weekly board meetings held shortly after closing.

Investment bank Banca Profilo offers personalized banking; corporate financing; and asset management, treasury, and consulting services. Clients include insurers, businesses, institutions, and individuals. Founded as a brokerage in 1988, the firm became a bank in 1995 to compete with securities-trading foreign banks entering the Italian market. Banca Profilo operates about 10 offices throughout Italy. In 2007 it bought a majority stake in Société Bancaire Privée of Geneva, expanding its European presence and its private banking business. It also plans to merge with Meliorbanca, expanding its network to nearly two dozen branches throughout Italy.

Star One Credit Union. It has four branches in California's Silicon Valley, but its approximately 80,000 members can access their accounts through a nationwide network of more than 25,000 ATMs and 2,500 shared credit union branches in some 40 states. Star One offers membership to employees of selected companies, including such biggies as Lockheed Martin and Yahoo! Additionally, those who live or work in Santa Clara County, California, are eligibleThe Lockheed Missile Employees Federal Credit Union was chartered in October 1956 to serve employees of the new Lockheed Missiles and Space Division in Sunnyvale, California. Our doors opened in January 1957 when 1,350 member accounts were transferred from the Lockheed Aircraft Employees Federal Credit Union in Burbank.

BANK'34 was quite literally founded on a dream. It was originally organized (as Alamogordo Federal Savings and Loan Association) as an institution whose principal purview was to help area residents afford to buy their own homes. There is no more fundamental dream in America than that of home ownership, and we have been powering that dream since 1934.The BANK'34 name was chosen based on the founding year it was established. Our name addresses our years of experience and our obvious financial stability. The year also shares that we were founded on values of a much more value-oriented time.

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