SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc. operates as the holding company for SouthFirst Bank, which provides general banking services in Alabama. The bank primarily generates deposits and originates various loans. Its deposit products include NOW accounts, money-market accounts, passbook savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. The banks loan portfolio comprises one-to-four family, owner-occupied, and residential mortgage; fixed-rate and adjustable-rate-mortgage residential construction loans; consumer loans, including savings account loans; and loans secured by second mortgage on real estate, such as home improvement and home equity loans.

Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, we provide liquidity, funding, and services to enhance the success of our members and support the availability of affordable homes and economic development in the communities they serve. The Seattle Bank is a member-owned cooperative, serving approximately 365 community financial institutions. Our members—commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, and insurance companies—are our customers. We provide them with access to wholesale funding that they can use to make home mortgages, small business, and other loans to the members of their communities.

Wilmington Trust Corporation owns Wilmington Trust Company, which has about 50 bank branches in Delaware. Its trust and banking operations elsewhere in the US are carried out through its Wilmington Trust FSB subsidiary, which has about two dozen offices. In addition to standard banking services such as deposits and loans, Wilmington Trust has business segments devoted to Corporate Client Services, primarily for private businesses in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe; and to Wealth Advisory Services, which includes trust, asset management, and family office services. Wilmington Trust also owns money managers Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn and Roxbury Capital Management. M&T Bank is buying Wilmington Trust.

Charter Financial is the savings and loan holding company for CharterBank, which operates more than a dozen branches and loan production offices in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Deposit products include consumer and commercial checking accounts, savings and money market accounts, and CDs. The bank is focused on real estate lending, with residential and commercial mortgages each accounting for more than a third of its loan portfolio. It also makes consumer, business, construction, and land development loans. The bank gives cash awards to high school customers for making straight A's. Mutual holding company First Charter MHC owns more than 80% of Charter Financial.

Citigroup, Inc., a global financial services company, provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. The company has two primary segments, Citicorp and Citi Holdings. The Citicorp segment operates as a global bank for businesses and consumers with two primary businesses, Regional Consumer Banking and Institutional Clients Group. The Regional Consumer Banking business provides traditional banking services, including retail banking, branded cards, and small commercial banking in North America, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

BEO Bancorp began in 1945 as the Gilliam County Bank, Arlington.BEO Bancorp wants to be the bank of choice for rural Oregonians. BEO, which is the holding company for Bank of Eastern Oregon, has about a dozen offices in north central Oregon; it is the state's largest agricultural bank. BEO serves area consumers and businesses, offering standard deposit products such as checking and savings accounts, and lending products including mortgages and commercial loans. Through BEO Financial Services, the company offers customers investment and insurance products.

Southcoast Financial Corporation, headquartered in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, is the holding company of Southcoast Community Bank. The Bank, which opened for business July 20, 1998, is a state chartered commercial bank operating from its main office at 534 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Southcoast is a locally owned and operated business and has been recognized as one of the top 25 fastest growing companies in South Carolina. Southcoast Financial Corporation's common stock trades on NASDAQ under the symbol SOCB.Southcoast has ten locations in the Greater Charleston market, including offices in Charleston, North Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, Johns Island, Moncks Corner, Summerville, and Goose Creek. The Company's strategic focus is to serve the banking needs of small businesses in the Tri-County area. In addition to traditional consumer and commercial services, Southcoast offers mortgage loan origination services, tax deposits, as well as a variety of other services. Southcoast has also established a 24-hour automated teller network throughout the Tri-County area.

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.

United Financial Bancorp is the holding company for United Bank, which operates about 20 branches serving residents and businesses in western Massachusetts. It offers such standard deposit products as CDs and checking, money market, NOW, retirement, and savings accounts. Deposits are United Bank's primary source of funds for its lending activities, which focus on residential mortgages, commercial real estate loans, and home equity loans. To a lesser extent, the bank provides business, construction, and consumer loans. Its United Wealth Management Group provides investments and financial planning services.

Established in 2002 to consolidate the operations of E.Sun Bank and other subsidiaries, E.Sun provides commercial banking, venture capital, securities trading, and other financial services to businesses and individuals throughout the country. The group depends on commercial banking services for its bread and butter (90% of annual revenues) and carries out additional financial operations through six subsidiaries. An attempt to acquire Taiwan Business Bank in 2005 broke down amid union protests. A year later the group allied with Singapore's Temasek which would eventually control 6% through Fullerton Financial Holdings.

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