Fremont Bancorporation lets freedom ka-ching! It's the holding company for Fremont Bank, which operates more than 20 branches in the San Francisco Bay area. Serving area consumers and businesses, the bank provides traditional banking services such as savings, checking, and money market accounts; check cards; IRAs; and CDs. It uses funds from deposits mainly to originate home mortgages and commercial real estate loans, as well as commercial, industrial, construction, and land development loans. The bank, which was founded in 1964, provides investments, wealth management, retirement planning, and insurance products through an agreement with UVEST (a division of LPL Financial)

Sterling Bancorp is the holding company for Sterling National Bank, which operates about a dozen branch locations in and around New York City. The bank offers such standard retail products as checking and savings accounts and CDs. Commercial and industrial loans account for about half of the company's loan portfolio; other offerings include residential mortgages and lease financing. The company also provides a variety of non-traditional banking offerings; its subsidiaries offer factoring (accounts receivable management), outsourced business support services, trust administration, and other services. Sterling National Bank was founded in 1929.

UniCredit S.p.A. provides various banking and financial services primarily in central and eastern Europe, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, and Ukraine. Its Retail segment offers financial services to mass market, affluent and small business customers. This segment provides consumer credit, residential mortgages, and asset gathering services. The company’s Corporate & Investment Banking segment offers financing and advisory services that include investment banking products, such as corporate finance and advisory, syndicated loans, leveraged buy-outs, project and commodity finance, real estate financing, and principal investments. This segment also provides cash management and e-banking solutions; and trade finance products and services, including letters of credit, guarantees and documentary credits, and forfeiting, as well as trade management solutions. Its Private banking segment offers advisory services and solutions for private banking. The company’s Asset Management segment provides a range of financial solutions, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and assets administration, as well as portfolios for institutional investors and structured products. UniCredit S.p.A. operates approximately 9800 branches. The company is based in Milan, Italy.

Juniata Valley Financial may be the place for you. The institution is the holding company for Juniata Valley Bank, which serves central Pennsylvania from about a dozen banking locations. The bank offers standard deposit products and services, including checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, IRAs, and CDs. It also provides credit card services and originates a variety of consumer and business loans. Consumer loans make about 70% of its loan portfolio. Additionally, Juniata Valley Bank sells insurance and investment products. Juniata Valley Bank was established in 1867.

Fidelity Bancorp is the holding company for Fidelity Bank, which has faithfully served the Greater Pittsburgh area since 1927. The bank caters to individuals and small business customers from about a dozen branch offices in the city and its northern suburbs in Allegheny and Butler counties. Deposit products include checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, and money market accounts. Real estate loans, including single-family residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, and construction loans, make up about two-thirds of the bank's loan portfolio, which also includes consumer installment loans and business loans and leases.

Valiant Holding was formed in 2002 with the merger of regional Swiss banks Valiant Bank (retail banking) and Valiant Privatbank (asset management) with IRB Interregio Bank and Luzerner Regiobank. Today, Valiant Bank serves German-speaking clients in Switzerland, while Banque Romande Valiant serves the country's Francophone population. Together, the two banks have more than 100 offices. Valiant Holding also owns Spar + Leihkasse Steffisburg, a bank with two branches in Switzerland. The banks offer savings and investments, mortgages and loans, retirement planning, and private banking services, including asset management for retail and institutional investors.

Headquartered in San Francisco, UnionBanCal Corporation is a financial holding company with assets of $80 billion at September 30, 2010. Its primary subsidiary, Union Bank, N.A., is a full-service commercial bank providing an array of financial services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. The bank operated 397 banking offices in California, Oregon, Washington and Texas and two international offices, on September 30, 2010.

Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd.,operating through several subsidiaries, its palette includes insurance (responsible for the largest portion of its revenues), retail banking, corporate and investment banking, investment consulting, brokerage, consumer finance, asset management, pension management, and venture capital. The company has operations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the US. It is expanding into China. Fubon Financial was founded in 1961 as an insurance provider.

LCNB National Bank, which operates some two dozen branches in southwestern Ohio. The bank offers personal and commercial banking services such as checking and savings accounts, money markets, IRAs, and CDs. Residential mortgages account for nearly half of the company's loan book. Other offerings include commercial mortgages, consumer loans including credit cards, and business loans. Trust services are also provided; subsidiary Dakin Insurance Agency sells commercial and personal property/casualty insurance. In 2007 LCNB acquired Sycamore National Bank, which allowed for financial growth and branch expansion.

Meta Financial Group is the holding company for MetaBank, a thrift with about a dozen branches in Iowa and South Dakota. MetaBank offers standard deposit products and services including checking and savings accounts. Its lending and investment activities are weighted towards real estate and real estate-related assets; the bank also writes consumer and agriculture loans. MetaBank division Meta Payment Systems (MPS), the company's fastest-growing segment, provides prepaid cards and electronic payment services nationwide. Meta Financial also owns Meta Trust Company, which provides a full range of trust services.

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