United Bank of India provides a variety of retail, deposit, and commercial banking services throughout India. Tracing its roots to 1914, UBI offers a variety of deposit services, such as fixed deposits, reinvestment plans, and stock investment instruments. Its retail credit division provides auto, home, and education loans, as well as consumer loans. UBI operates through about 30 regional offices and more than 1,450 branches and has historically been involved in rural and semi-urban development initiatives. The bank also has international branches located at Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai. The company, nationalized in 1969, plans to go public in 2010.

Got your eye on a new backhoe or truck fleet, but having trouble scraping together the cash? Wells Fargo Equipment Finance can help. One of the largest bank-owned business finance and leasing outfits in the US, the subsidiary of megabank Wells Fargo courts middle-market businesses, offering equipment financing, vendor financing, and a variety of lease options in the US and Canada. Clients use funding from Wells Fargo Equipment Finance to obtain such durable goods as computers, aircraft, manufacturing equipment, heavy machinery, shipping containers, and vehicles.

Home Capital Group is a holding company that operates through its Home Trust Company subsidiary. Home Trust is home to Canadians seeking credit -- both to buy homes and to buy anything else with credit cards. The federally regulated trust offers mortgage lending, retail credit and credit issuing services, as well as deposit services. Home Trust owns and operates offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.

DFCU Financial (a shortened version of its previous name, Dearborn Federal Credit Union) provides deposit, lending, and investment services to more than 200,000 members. The company operates a network of about two dozen offices and service centers in southern Michigan. Products and services include checking, savings, and money market accounts, IRAs, and various types of loans. The company's DFCU Financial Partners division provides online securities trading and financial planning. Founded in 1950 by a group of Ford employees.

Venture Finance, a unit of ABN AMRO, provides business financing through asset-based lending, invoice discounting, and factoring. Venture Finance focuses on small to midsized companies throughout the UK. The firm also has a structured finance unit, which focuses on refinancing, turnaround, management buyouts, and other transactions for midsized firms. Venture Finance, which was founded in 1989, has about a dozen offices throughout the UK.

Unione di Banche Italiane combines several banks under one organization. Known as UBI Banca, it serves individuals and businesses through nine subsidiary banks with some 2,000 branches in Italy (concentrated in the Lombardy region) and offices in about a dozen other countries in Europe, Asia, and South America. The banks offer such standard deposit products as savings and checking accounts and CDs. They also provide asset management, leasing operations, private banking, insurance, corporate banking, and mortgage and other types of lending. The group was formed in 2007 when Banche Popolari Unite acquired rival Banca Lombarda e Piemontese and changed its name to UBI Banca.

Merchants Bancorp operates as a bank holding for MBank that provides various banking services for businesses and individuals in Oregon. It generates demand deposits, fixed term money market and other interest-bearing accounts, time deposits, and certificates of deposit products. The company also provides working capital lines or business loans, short-term financing, and mortgage lending, including home improvements and construction loans.

Jacksonville Bancorp (unaffiliated with the Florida corporation of the same name) is the holding company for Jacksonville Savings Bank, which serves consumers and businesses in western Illinois through more than five offices, including its Chapin State Bank, First Midwest Savings Bank, and Litchfield Community Savings divisions. The bank is mainly a real estate lender, with residential, commercial, and agricultural mortgages accounting for more than half of its loan portfolio. Subsidiary Financial Resources Group offers investment and trust services. The company converted from a mutual holding company to a stock holding company structure in mid-2010.

Aozora (which means blue sky in Japanese) was the second Japanese credit bank nationalized in the wake of Asia's financial crisis after the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (now Shinsei Bank). Bad loans and Japan's "Big Bang" financial deregulation added to its troubles. Now a full-service commercial bank, Aozora has some 20 branches in Japan and three offices overseas. In addition to insurance and trust services, Aozora Bank provides a wide range of business loans for medium and large corporations, asset management, investment advisory services and securitization. Aozora and Shinsei called off their plans to merge in 2010.

Davenham has discontinued its property finance division, which has historically accounted for more than half of the company's sales. Davenham often says "yes" when the banks say "no." The company provides asset-based loans, primarily to small and midsized businesses in the UK. Davenham's trade finance division provides working capital loans, including short-term letters of credit, while its asset finance unit provides loans to buy or lease machinery and equipment. Subsidiary Manor Credit finances commercial vehicles, vans, and fleet cars. Davenham Group plc makes loans primarily to contractors, distributors, importers, manufacturers, and wholesalers who are not able to get financing from traditional lenders.

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