Erste & Steiermarkische Bank (ESB) is banking on the fiduciary habits of native Croatians. The Croatia-based bank caters to individuals and small- and medium-sized businesses through more than 120 branches; services include Internet banking for retail and corporate clients. When the bank first opened in 2002, it had few direct competitors, but today as the competitive landscape has changed, the bank's clientele have had more banking choices and have asserted their loyalty to ESB. The company has a more than 10% market share. Erste Bank owns 555% of Erste & Steiermarkische; Steiermarkische Bank und Sparkassen owns about 40%.

State Bank of Countryside (SBC) was founded by a group of local businessmen who saw a need for a community-focused, local bank. They implemented their idea of high-quality, personalized service in a warm, inviting atmosphere by opening State Bank of Countryside in 1975. The first office was made up of a few desks in a small, cozy storefront location—our focused growth and vision over the past three decades have moved us a long way from that humble beginning.

BancorpSouth, Inc. operates as a financial holding company for BancorpSouth Bank that provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals, and small-to-medium sized businesses in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, and Illinois. It generates interest bearing and noninterest bearing demand deposits, and saving and time deposits. The company provides various commercial loan services, including term loans, lines of credit, equipment and receivable financing, and agricultural loans, as well as a range of short-to-medium term secured and unsecured commercial loans to businesses for working capital, business expansion, and the purchase of equipment and machinery. Its residential consumer lending activities consist of the origination of fixed and adjustable rate residential mortgage loans secured by owner-occupied property, construction loans, second mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit; and non-residential consumer lending activities comprise automobile loans, recreation vehicle loans, boat loans, secured and unsecured personal loans, deposit account secured loans, and student loans. BancorpSouth, Inc. also serves as an agent in the sale of title insurance; commercial lines of insurance; and a line of property and casualty, life, health, and employee benefit products and services. In addition, it offers investment services comprising brokerage, investment advisory, and asset management services; and trust services, including personal trust and estate services, and employee benefit accounts and plans, such as individual retirement accounts and corporate trust functions. As of December 31, 2009, BancorpSouth operated approximately 310 commercial banking, trust, and insurance business offices. BancorpSouth, Inc. was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Commerce Bancshares, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Commerce Bank, N.A. that provides various general banking services to individuals and businesses. It operates in three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth. The Consumer segment includes the retail branch network, consumer installment lending, personal mortgage banking, consumer debit and credit bank card activities, and student lending. The Commercial segment provides various corporate lending, merchant and commercial bank card products, leasing, and international services, as well as business and government deposit and cash management services. The Wealth segment offers traditional trust and estate tax planning services, brokerage services, and advisory and discretionary investment portfolio management services to personal and institutional corporate customers. This segment also manages a family of proprietary mutual funds, which are available for sale to trust and general retail customers. As of December 31, 2009, the company served customers through a network of branches and ATM machines, online banking, and a central contact center from approximately 370 locations in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

DCB Financial is the holding company for The Delaware County Bank and Trust, which serves individual and commercial customers through some 20 branches in central Ohio. The bank offers traditional products and services, such as checking and savings accounts, CDs, IRAs, credit and debit cards, and safe deposit facilities. Its loan portfolio primarily consists of commercial mortgages, residential mortgages, and home equity loans. The bank also writes construction, land development, industrial, and consumer loans. The Delaware County Bank and Trust provides insurance, investments, wealth management, and trust services, as well.

GrandSouth Bancorporation operates as the bank holding company for GrandSouth Bank that provides commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in South Carolina. Its deposit products include business and personal checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, term certificates of deposit, and IRA accounts. The companys loan portfolio comprises secured and unsecured, short-to-intermediate term loans with floating and fixed interest rates for commercial, consumer, and residential purposes.

BPI Family Savings Bank, which has some 140 branches, traces much of its growth to remittances from Filipinos working abroad. The overseas foreign workers (OFWs) take higher-paying jobs outside of the island nation and send funds back home. (About 10% of Filipinos are OFWs.) The bank was formed in a 1985 merger between parent Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and the Family Savings Bank.

CDC Small Business Finance, founded in 1978 by Arthur H. Goodman, is a not-for-profit organization stimulating economic development by serving the financing needs of small businesses in California, Arizona and Nevada. Specifically, CDC offers fixed-rate, low down-payment, commercial real estate loans for the purchase of office and industrial buildings. CDC also offers an array of community loan programs focusing on women, minority and veteran-owned businesses – those small businesses that face the greatest obstacles to securing capital. Additionally, in 2005 CDC created the Direct Capital loan programs, which provide financing through Community Reinvestment Fund to help small businesses, including nonprofits, in qualified areas. In 33 years CDC has provided more than $8 billion in SBA-504 financing and other funding, resulting in more than 100,000 jobs. We partner with over 60 private lending institutions that consistently choose us for our expertise, reliability, experience and extraordinary service.

GE Commercial Distribution Finance provides specialized financing to manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in the US and Canada. A division of international conglomerate General Electric through its GE Capital unit, GE Commercial Distribution Finance specializes in inventory financing, asset-based lending, accounts receivable financing, rental and purchase order financing, and equipment financing for small to midsized businesses. Industries served include office and technology products, foodservice, electronics and appliances, HVAC equipment, and agricultural equipment.

BankUnited was established on May 21, 2009, when a group of investors led by John A. Kanas acquired the assets and most of the liabilities of the former BankUnited, FSB from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The group recapitalized BankUnited with a $900 million investment, making it one of the most well capitalized financial institutions in the country.

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