FirstBank Florida wants to be your first, last, and only bank if you live in the Miami area. The company operates 10 branches in South Florida and serves small businesses and individuals. It provides traditional deposit products such as credit cards, personal and business checking, savings, money market, and individual retirement accounts, as well as loan products such as auto loans, mortgages and home equity loans. Residential mortgages account for the majority of FirstBank Florida's lending portfolio. The rest of the bank's portfolio is composed of commercial, construction, business, and consumer loans.

Newport Bancorp provides a big spread of financial services to the tiniest US state. It is the holding company for Newport Federal Savings Bank, which offers traditional deposit services like savings and checking accounts to both consumers and business owners through branches in Newport, Middletown, Wakefield, and Westerly, Rhode Island. The bank's lending portfolio includes auto and other personal loans and lines of credit, as well as real estate-related home equity, construction, commercial mortgage, and one- to four-family residential loans (the bank's largest segment). The bank's roots date back to 1888.

KB Financial Group, holding company for Kookmin Bank, provides commercial and consumer banking services in South Korea. It offers asset management and life insurance through alliances with Netherlands-based ING Groep. The bank's lending activities mainly entail residential mortgages, home equity loans, consumer loans, and corporate loans. Kookmin Bank has more than 1,200 branches in its home country, where it claims some 26 million customers, or about half of the population of South Korea. The bank provides corporate services such as foreign exchange and securities trading from offices at home and abroad in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Auckland, New Zealand.

FHLBank Atlanta is a cooperative bank that offers competitively priced financing, community development grants, and other banking services to help member financial institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic development credit to neighborhoods and communities. Established by Congress in 1932 to support mortgage lending, the Federal Home Loan Bank System provides a stable source of funding to federally insured depository institutions. Each FHLBank operates as an independent organization and is governed by a Board of Directors that is elected by member institutions.

Ameris Bancorp enjoys the financial climate of the Deep South. It is the holding company of Ameris Bank, which serves retail and consumer customers through some 60 branches in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and northern Florida. The bank provides standard products and services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, CDs, IRAs, and credit cards; it offers investment services through an agreement with Raymond James Financial. Loans secured by commercial real estate and farmland account for approximately two-thirds of the company's loan portfolio, while residential mortgages and business loans account for about 10% each.

Apollo Bancorp is the holding company for Apollo Trust Company, a community bank serving Western Pennsylvania's Kiski Valley, northeast of Pittsburgh. Through about five branches, the bank offers checking, savings, and investment accounts to individuals and local businesses. It also offers trust services. One- to four-family residential mortgages and commercial real estate loans make up most of the bank's loan portfolio. It also offers construction and land development loans, consumer loans, and farm loans, in addition to lending to area municipalities. Apollo Trust Company opened in 1871.

Republic First Bancorp is the holding company for Republic First Bank (dba Republic Bank), which serves southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey from a dozen branches. The bank targets individuals and small to midsized businesses, offering standard deposit products including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, IRAs, and CDs. Commercial mortgages account for more than 70% of the company's loan portfolio, which also includes consumer loans, business loans, and residential mortgages. Republic First and Metro Bancorp scrapped plans to merge in 2010 due to regulatory difficulties. Undaunted, the company is still looking to expand in New Jersey and plans to open new branches.

Deutsche Postbank is claiming its post as one of Germany's leading retail banks. Spun off from postal service provider Deutsche Post in 2004, the bank offers deposits, loans and mortgages, asset management, insurance, and commercial finance, including factoring and leasing services, through more than 850 branches; it also offers some services through post office locations. The bank performs payment processing services as well, with rivals including Deutsche Bank among its biggest customers. Outside Germany, Deutsche Postbank offers banking services in Luxembourg and structured finance products to companies in North America. Deutsche Bank controls just over half of the bank.

Ridgewood Savings Bank is a royal member of the financial community. in 1920, a group of fourteen local Ridgewood residents got together with the idea of forming a new mutual savings institution to serve the people of their community. Working purely towards the common good and without regard for personal gain, our founders had high hopes for the success of the bank formed "for the people, by the people."

Union National Financial jumps for Mount Joy! The holding company owns Union National Community Bank, which serves the communities in and around Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. Through about a dozen branches, the bank provides standard retail products and services including checking accounts, money markets, CDs, and IRAs. It uses funds from deposits largely to write large commercial loans and mortgages, which account for more than half of the bank's loan portfolio. In 2009 the company shut down subsidiary Union National Insurance Agency, which offered insurance-related products to the bank's customers. Donegal Financial Services, holding company of the three-branch Province Bank, plans to buy Union National Financial.

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