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.

STEN Corporation is a diversified holding company with operations in automobile financing and contract manufacturing. Its STEN Financial subsidiary operates subprime auto lender and dealership inventory financing business STEN Credit Corporation and the Arizona-based EasyDrive Cars and Credit used car lots. STEN also owns Stencor, which manufactures products including surgical sterilization containers and filters (for STERIS Corporation, its largest customer), air filtration systems, and pest-control systems. CEO Kenneth Brimmer owns about a quarter of the company, as does former director Gary Copperud, who controls former subsidiary Burger Time.

Established in 1902, First South Bank is a local community bank located throughout Eastern North Carolina. Over the past 103 years, banking products and services have evolved. However, the Bank's commitment to its community has never wavered. We have always believed it is important to be a significant contributing member of our community. We know that, as a community bank, we have a responsibility to make a positive difference in the place we both live and serve, not because it is good for business, but because it is the right thing to do.

Banner Corporation operates as the holding company for Banner Bank and Islanders Bank that provide commercial banking and financial products and services to individuals, businesses, and public sector entities. It generates various deposit instruments, including demand checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market deposit accounts, regular savings accounts, certificates of deposit, cash management services, and retirement savings plans. The company also originates commercial business and commercial real estate loans, agricultural business loans, construction and land development loans, one to four-family residential loans, and consumer loans. In addition, it engages in mortgage banking operations primarily through the origination and sale of one to four-family residential loans. As of December 31, 2009, Banner Bank operated 86 branch offices and 7 loan production offices located in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho; and Islanders Bank conducted business from 3 locations in San Juan County, Washington. Banner Corporation was founded in 1890 and is based in Walla Walla, Washington.

Ocean Bank is the largest independent state chartered commercial bank headquartered in Florida.It is the holding company of Ocean Bank, which operates about 20 branches throughout South Florida's Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Serving area individuals and businesses, Ocean Bank offers traditional deposit products such as checking and savings accounts and CDs in addition to credit cards, wealth management, and merchant card processing services. Its lending activities are focused on real estate: Residential and commercial mortgages and construction and land development loans account for about 90% of its loan portfolio. The bank also makes business, consumer, and municipal loans. Ocean Bank was founded in 1982.

Abbey International is waiting. A unit of Spanish banking powerhouse Santander, Abbey National International (which does business as Abbey International) serves British expatriates with offshore banking services via telephone and the Internet. Offerings include standard deposit accounts, as well as tax-beneficial interest-bearing products denominated in British sterling, US dollars, and euros. Santander's UK divisions are adopting the parent company's brand.

KBC Group is one of Belgium's largest financial services firms. The company operates more than 850 bank branches in Belgium and another 1,300 in Central and Eastern Europe. It has other operations in Western Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia. KBC caters to individuals, small and midsized businesses, and private banking clients. It also offers insurance, and asset management. The bank is organized into four primary business units: Belgium; Central and Eastern Europe and Russia; Merchant Banking; and European Private Banking. In 2009 KBC received its third government bailout upon reporting losses related to toxic investments.

Centrix Bank likes to be central in the lives of its customers. Founded in 1998 to serve small to midsized businesses, as well as not-for-profits, municipalities, and professionals, the bank bank operates about a half-dozen branches in southern New Hampshire. It offers such traditional deposit products as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. Lending is focused on area businesses, with commercial mortgages accounting for more than half of the bank's loan portfolio and other business loans contributing more than a third. Personal loans, residential construction loans, and home equity lines of credit help to round out Centrix Bank's lending activities.

First United is the holding company for First United Bank & Trust and other financial services subsidiaries. Founded in 1900, the bank operates about 25 branches in the panhandles of western Maryland and eastern West Virginia, as well as the Morgantown, West Virginia area. The bank provides standard services such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, and CDs, as well as retirement and trust services. Commercial loans make up the largest portion of the company's loan portfolio (more than 45%), followed by real estate mortgages (more than 35%), consumer installment loans, and construction loans.

Bank of America boasts one of the country's most extensive branch networks with more than 5,900 locations covering some 40 states from coast to coast. Its core services include consumer and small business banking, credit cards, and asset management. In early 2009 Bank of America paid some $50 billion in stock for Merrill Lynch, which had been crippled by the global credit crisis. The acquisition of the once-mighty investment bank known as "The Bull," which has an extensive retail brokerage network, beefs up Bank of America's wealth management, investment banking, and international business.

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